Why don't we?

I wouldn't worry too much Danc. they are probably waiting for the North East to get running water, electricity and the horseless carriage before they venture up there.

wrinkles wrote:

I wouldn't worry too much Danc. they are probably waiting for the North East to get running water, electricity and the horseless carriage before they venture up there.

Horseless carriages, pfft, you'll be telling me You can get to London from Glasgow in less than a fortnight next.

before the liver birds take flight and do somthing naughty over middle england,we up here got new gas lights and i found a B&M store on byker road,havent been in yet saving that for next trip.

I was in Toremellinos a week ago and found 'Onkle Willie's' a German run bar resturant on the front.
Obviously I had to give it a go and was glad I did.
Onkle Willie was a smashing old guy and I soon got back into sprachen the lingo.
Had a excellent Jaegerschnitzel mit pommes washed down with a couple of large Wobblys.

My local Lidl used to sell APFELKORN . Then they stopped,don't know why.

Can get red Becks ,but not the green variety.

Apfelkorn...oh, I remember some vicious hangovers from that stuff!! shudder....

I also remember just plain ordinary Korn...like goddamned lighter fluid! I had to quaff a whole litre of beer (2 half-litres) just to get rid of the aftertaste....then had another Korn, which entailed another 2 half-litres and...well, another vicious hangover the next day! LOL

Did anybody try to drink an alcoholic beverage called

RATZEPUTZ?

Came from Celle and is served in this aera.

This drink is very strange. It is better not to breathe after drinking. Everybody who tried it know what I mean!

Heard of it,never tried it-the name puts you off..
Have a look at www.ratzeputz.shop.com
No kidding it does exist!

Chemist wrote:

Heard of it,never tried it-the name puts you off..
Have a look at www.ratzeputz.shop.com
No kidding it does exist!

That's it, nice one.

Try it!

Yes I've also heard of it but never tried it. Who want's to drink something that sounds like a toilet cleaner?

i havent actually heard of it,but it would not supprise me to know that i had drunk it in some of the states i have been in

remember it only too well...pure loopy juice...graham..

Not a toilet cleaner-more like "its all gone to @@@@@@@@"

Hmmm..."ratzeputz" doesn't sound like a toilet cleaner to me. Sounds more like the reproductive orifice of a female rat...still off-putting LOL I mean...a RAT???? Nobody gets THAT drunk LOL. I certainly never did, that's for dang sure. That I remember, anyway....

The Germans certainly came up with some lethal schnapps, some I liked others not so much.

Now, Jaegermeister....I always kind of liked that, despite it tasting like cough medicine. It's become quite popular here in Canada as a shooter (small pure alcohol backer thingy), which is almost blasphemy. Usually served chilled, but not always. Nobody here believes me when I tell them it's actually a 'stomach bitter', designed to soothe an upset tummy, not create one LOL.

As for the legend behind the stag with the glowing Cross between his antlers...nobody around here is interested. Philistines!

I dont recall a German label with " Schnapps" on although its always quoted by Brits in reference to things German. Just like "Lager"
Maybe a German language expert could put me right.
"Korn" I remember in my introduction to all things German at a Bundeswehr base near Munster. A mad skittles evening-"ein mal pils und ein mal korn"-and so on.
The last game was played in complete darkness, I think.

HI THATS POWERFUL STUFF.
A BUNCH OF US WERE OFERED IT TO DRINK AND WAS TOLD BY A GERMAN FRIEND NOT TO MAKE A SOUND OR EXPRSION AFTER WE HAD DRUNK IT.
SOME OF US LASTED THREE AND THAT WAS IT .
tHE GERMANS THOUGHT THIS WAS GREAT FUN AND FROM THEN ON WE WERE ALWAYS WELCOME IN THERE BAR.
It attacks from inside the stomach.

stephen,you arn,t confusing jaegermister with underberg are you small bottles wraped in brown paper,supposed to be a hangover cure.

ratzeputz" There wasnone that sounded like kuriratzeputz if that is the spelling Deadly

Ratzeputze,there's a blast from the past,used to drink it in Celle and surrounding areas,if my memory serves me well it had a strong ginger taste and burned all the way down,good if you had a chest cold.

Nobby

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Oliver (Trince) wrote:

Did anybody try to drink an alcoholic beverage called

RATZEPUTZ?

Came from Celle and is served in this aera.

This drink is very strange. It is better not to breathe after drinking. Everybody who tried it know what I mean!

As I recall it was a favourite practical joke to play on unsuspecting new boys by both German civvies and their mates back in the 50s. I tried it once...just once.

It has a red colour. As for taste...think straight alchohol laced with an extremely generous splash of Tabasco sauce. I think that pretty well descibes the stuff. I always figured it was made in someone's bath tub.

dandc wrote:

stephen,you arn,t confusing jaegermister with underberg are you small bottles wraped in brown paper,supposed to be a hangover cure.

Oh, I remember Underberg as well, dandc...had actually forgotten about it, however, until you mentioned it here. However, I don't think I'm confusing the two; Jaegermeister, as used by the purists, was, I am almost certain, not intended as a 'shooter' (again, I feel the need to explain what those are...essentially they are a 'toss-back' drink, usually sickly sweet or raunchy as hell with various "cute" names such as Fuzzy Navel. Almost pure alcohol, served in small shot glasses. The idea is to throw 'em back in one gulp. One can get very drunk very quickly on 2 -r 3 of the damn things). I thought I was certain about the stomach bitter thing, but perhaps on second thought I was mixing it up with Underberg, but ....hmmmm....oh, now I don't know LOL

Chemist wrote:

I dont recall a German label with " Schnapps" on although its always quoted by Brits in reference to things German. Just like "Lager"
Maybe a German language expert could put me right.
"Korn" I remember in my introduction to all things German at a Bundeswehr base near Munster. A mad skittles evening-"ein mal pils und ein mal korn"-and so on.
The last game was played in complete darkness, I think.

I don't think there was a specific drink called "schnapps"....Schnapps is a type of liquor, like an apertif, usually served in a 2cc glass, usually vile as Hades, and every German household I was ever in had at least a couple of bottles of it stashed in the liquor cabinet of the living room schrank.

Here in Canada, some enterprising entrepeneur marketed a variety of "schnapps" -- peach schnapps, etc., also dreadful IMHO and not really schanpps.

They do a good german mustard in tesco
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"Shrank" now there is a word that takes you back. I reckon every quarter in BAOR had one.

But who remembers "Bulk rubbish?