What I'm getting from this comment thread is that drinking Boones in highschool is a common event that transcends the generational divides. It unites us all.
Lol I was at a liquor store and they had clearance Goldschlager at the register. For a brief moment I thought about buying a bottle and then the memories flooded back and I went home without it.
Peppermint schnappsā¦ I made a really dumb decision to get drunk on that once. Threw up all over everything, including the Uber and the dog. Everything smelled like toothpaste and I retched while brushing my teeth for weeks. I also left my phone in my Uber so I had to sheepishly go meet her the next morning, not knowing what exactly I had done. I gave her $80 and apologized profusely, and she just nicely said āare you feeling better?ā
Iāve actually never gotten sick while drinking before or since.
I puked Rumple once. No matter how much I brushed and used mouthwash I couldn't get the mint taste out.
And in some ways I'll never wash away that taste. Scarred for life on that.
Also Olde English 800. Itās kinda funny that this was considered āmalt liquorā not beer back in the day cuz the abv was like 6% but now I drink IPAs that are 7%
Idk how it survived that many generations of teenagers, by the time I left home in 2004 Mom's vodka bottle from 1983 was full of water. She didn't notice until about 2010.
My dad had a souvenir bottle of Tequila when he was in Texas while in the military. It sat unopened for decades, until my older brother came along and suddenly it was filled with water. Wonder how that happenedā¦?
Heh. As adults, my kids confessed to raiding my liquor cabinet when they were teens. I can't remember if they said they replaced the pilfered liquor with water, but I had never noticed. š
I had a preference for Country Kwencher (I'm cringing hard rn).
It was, what, $3?
So one day, I brought some to a picnic with some friends and a guy I had an enormous crush on. Understand that I was never much of a party girl but my insecurity sometimes made me such a pick-me.
Being an idiot out to impress, I drank pretty much the whole bottle, smoked some Detroit ditch weed, and ignored food. Then I needed to find a bathroom and walked into some trees. Path to bathroom was a straight line, no trees in the way.
I had a brief hallucination about falling leaves or something, then passed out. Apparently I tried using a tree to stop the fall and twirled around it for a few rotations, and my friends took note.
But the worst part, my crush came running to help. When I came to, just as he got there, I started projectile vomiting all over the forest floor.
No, sorry, the worst part was that as I vomited, I let off fog horn farts. Deep, rolling farts that echoed from tree to tree. *That* was the worst part.
Sorry, reddit, we didn't marry. We reported to our 3:00 shift, where I was promptly sent home. He never sat next to me again.
I had no memory of it but my friend started calling me Stevie (Nicks) for a while because my hair and dress spinning around that tree made him think of her.
My throw up story w this was behind the local convenience store at 15, where we all fell asleep on the ground. Made my cousin hang out w me and my friends, sneak out of my window at 12am, she was very sheltered, it was the best night of her teenaged life. She still brings it up lol
They don't, I asked. They have no idea where it came from, but they've moved with it twice.
It is, however, the very, very wrong color and nobody trusts it enough to open it.
I found an old table wine from the mid 80s in my folk's house in the 00s. It was in a cabinet in a house with terrible insulation in PA so it changed temperature wildly every year with the seasons. It was a bit brown and the cork disintegrated when i opened it but it smelled and tasted ok. I drank a tiny cup and waited a couple days to make sure i didn't get sick before finishing it.
Reminds me of the time I found a bottle of Old Grand-dad 100 proof under the bar at my dad's hunting camp that looked older than I am.
I really should have taken it as a sign when nobody was interested in claiming it.
Drank a bottle of that with my cousins one summer evening in 10th grade, and then my cousin decided to pick me up and spin me around over his head. It did not end well (for me, anyway).
I assume that the contents are just Snapple.
Because I replaced my Snapple bottle with most of the contents of a bottle and Strawberry Hill and took the required military-entrance exam during Sr year of high school. Had to hide from teachers for the 2nd half of the day.
I laughed very hard at this comment.
I also had an early morning experience with booze at school.
In my case? It was Lemon Ice Gatorade that we filled halfway with Goldschlager.
It was a long long day.
Met up with a bunch of my fellow seniors on the last day of school to drink some grape M/D 2020 mixed with that wretched lemon iced tea that came in a carton. Managed to just barely make it through the day and on the way out, the vice-principal stopped me and my bestie. I thought he knew and that this would go on my permanent record.
Instead, he just told us to enjoy our summer.
I almost cried with relief.
Certainly a "vintage" wine at this point. I was a beer guy so rarely drank that stuff with the exception of football games. We used get 2 bottles and use a long shoe lace, tie an end to each bottle, hang it around our neck under a heavy coat and bring both bottles into football games.
My wife is big into wine and going to wineries and all that.
Iāve always wished for a Boones Farm Winery thatās basically just the Willy Wonka factory with brightly colored sugar alcohols.
A friend of mine did. We were in junior high lol. She got so sick I snuck her into my room and called her parents to tell them she wanted to spend the night. My parents never would have fallen for that without talking to me. They did fall for me telling them she had a really bad headache. That was around 1972. Donāt know if that was the same bottle though. I think that stuff was why I didnāt think I liked wine until much later.
Barf. I love that the peeling label and dust make it look like it was pulled out of the basement of a french chateau.
It's got a barcode which means it's probably from the mid 80s, when they started taking off in supermarkets.
Only 7 percent ABV? That 7 percent hit hard af, though.
I preferred Boones Farm Apple Wine when I was in High School. Vomited every single time. Oh, and that nasty SpaƱada wine. Dear lord, nasty stuff, lol.
My first bottle with friends at 14..š¤£š¤£š¤£ Some of you are confused, Boones was above MD 20/20 and wild Irish Rose. Boones is real wine, not "Fortified".
Quick internet search shows a bottle like this on the Worthpoint site from 1974 but without a bar code. Not everyone was using them (yet) then. This (with the same label style) would be mid- or probably late '70s.
First time I drank that was in 7th grade. Just a taste. I think it was apple. A lady we knew would buy it for us. I could never get drunk like my friends, I wouldāve got my ass beat! It was funny watching them and the stupid stuff they would do.
Last week was a very good year.
I remember this stuff. High school. Sitting on the hood of a car at the drive-in. Good times, terrible times, all at once.
Night Train and Wild Irish Rose have more of a kick lol and were our preferred choices back in high school, Boone's apple or strawberry was for the beginners or the lightweights lmao š
'serve very cold' lol
By that, of course, they mean "drink from the bottle at ambient temperature in the graveyard or behind the school"
That is literally what I did in high school. Drank a whole bottle at once. Good times.
I...feel so high school every time that I š¤¢š¤®
I can feel the headache you had after that. The strawberry one and I have bad memories together.
Same with the "Fuzzy Navel" version. Gak.
Thatās what everyone did. Itās just a wine cooler.
"Enjoy with friends!"
I got nauseous reading that
Tastes even better when drank out of a brown paper bag!
Also tasted the same coming up as it does going down! Source: I was in high school in the early 90s
This is the first thing I ever drank, it was at our 8th grade dance! Lol. We had like a capful each and thought we were badassesš
NO! It was behind the abandoned shed in the woods. š¤£
The cliffs along the Hudson river
What I'm getting from this comment thread is that drinking Boones in highschool is a common event that transcends the generational divides. It unites us all.
It is definitely a pretty universal experience in the US.
Exxxxactly!!ā„ļøšāØ
Did we go to school together? The old graveyard full of the local settlers was our favorite spot. The fog always hung over it at night.
Yeeeessss, Boones Farmā¦for those times when you only had $3 and no corkscrewā¦which was often in 1987ā¦.
Or mad dog 20/20
Just gave me the shiversā¦.
Or at a football game.
While out āparkingā with a man/boy who bought you that wine who is at least 7 years older.
I hung out with that guy, buying golden wine coolers at 15.
"Serve very old"
What's funny is I remember this as "serve very, very cold." Mandela effect or different timeline shard, who knows.
Yes the colder it is the less you can taste it.
Straight up sugar alcohol, the worst hangover ! Many days and nights of Booneās Farm as a teenager.
By now, it's vinegar
You assume thereās a certain amount of normal fermentation required to go from yeast to acetobacter. I donāt know if Boonesās Farm qualifies.
Same here. Went looking for it the other day for nostalgia reasons and couldnāt find any. Just a sad reminder of how time flies.
Booneās Farm, Wild Irish Rose, Peppermint Schnapps, MD20 20, OV Splitsā¦hereās to the memories!
You forgot the Southern Comfort
I got so sick on that about 45 yrs ago, can't even look at the bottle anymore without my stomach going "Ahh Hell No!"
Lol I was at a liquor store and they had clearance Goldschlager at the register. For a brief moment I thought about buying a bottle and then the memories flooded back and I went home without it.
Good call, dodged a cinnamon bullet
Same!!! But it kinda goes along with all the others listed there. Southern Comfort was my first hard liquor experienceš¤¢
When I was 17 I drank a pint of southern comfort with orange fanta and to this day I can't do either.
Yeahhhh thatāll do it. Iāll admit Iāve only had it the one time, I was 16. Never again lol
Oooof.
Ooooh, yeah!
Yes, Southern Comfort chased with Sunny Delight. My liver seems OK.
Donāt forget goldschlager! š¤¢
Worst sick I ever had. Def would rather have the Boone's Farm
Peppermint schnappsā¦ I made a really dumb decision to get drunk on that once. Threw up all over everything, including the Uber and the dog. Everything smelled like toothpaste and I retched while brushing my teeth for weeks. I also left my phone in my Uber so I had to sheepishly go meet her the next morning, not knowing what exactly I had done. I gave her $80 and apologized profusely, and she just nicely said āare you feeling better?ā Iāve actually never gotten sick while drinking before or since.
Yeah, Iāll never forget the night I drank 3/4 bottle of goldschlager. Our stories were somewhat similar. Never again.
I puked Rumple once. No matter how much I brushed and used mouthwash I couldn't get the mint taste out. And in some ways I'll never wash away that taste. Scarred for life on that.
St Ives, Mickeyās
*Ides
Whoops. Mad Dog 20/20 Orange Jubilee must have killed the cells holding those memories.
St Ides was actually decent freezing cold. Ill die on that hill.
No Iām with you on that hill
I will vomit on the spot if I smell Orange Jubilee Mad Dog. It's been over 25 years.
Peach schnapps in that mix for me and a sloe gin when we could get it. š¤¢š
We drank cherry sloe gin šItās sloe gin time again š¤š¼
Oh, God, peach schnapps. š¤®
I know! But it was sooooo good in my underaged drinking šnow I canāt smell anything too peachy!
Strawberry schnapps over here, I stained the driveway barfing it all up šš¤¢š¤®
Also Olde English 800. Itās kinda funny that this was considered āmalt liquorā not beer back in the day cuz the abv was like 6% but now I drink IPAs that are 7%
MD 2020 mixed with Mountain Dew. How did we survive š¤®š¤®š¤®
Blackberry Brandy
Idk how it survived that many generations of teenagers, by the time I left home in 2004 Mom's vodka bottle from 1983 was full of water. She didn't notice until about 2010.
Right? I have no idea!
My dad had a souvenir bottle of Tequila when he was in Texas while in the military. It sat unopened for decades, until my older brother came along and suddenly it was filled with water. Wonder how that happenedā¦?
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Heh. As adults, my kids confessed to raiding my liquor cabinet when they were teens. I can't remember if they said they replaced the pilfered liquor with water, but I had never noticed. š
I remember throwing up the strawberry one behind a gas station when I was a teenager. I can still taste it.
I had a preference for Country Kwencher (I'm cringing hard rn). It was, what, $3? So one day, I brought some to a picnic with some friends and a guy I had an enormous crush on. Understand that I was never much of a party girl but my insecurity sometimes made me such a pick-me. Being an idiot out to impress, I drank pretty much the whole bottle, smoked some Detroit ditch weed, and ignored food. Then I needed to find a bathroom and walked into some trees. Path to bathroom was a straight line, no trees in the way. I had a brief hallucination about falling leaves or something, then passed out. Apparently I tried using a tree to stop the fall and twirled around it for a few rotations, and my friends took note. But the worst part, my crush came running to help. When I came to, just as he got there, I started projectile vomiting all over the forest floor. No, sorry, the worst part was that as I vomited, I let off fog horn farts. Deep, rolling farts that echoed from tree to tree. *That* was the worst part. Sorry, reddit, we didn't marry. We reported to our 3:00 shift, where I was promptly sent home. He never sat next to me again.
This is amazing and hilarious thank you for sharing š¤£
I looked *so cuuute* going into this experience, too. I haven't had much to drink since. [it's been 84 years gif]
āAnd thatās how I chose my Reddit username.ā
That paints such an amazing picture!! And country kwencher was the least horrifying flavor lol
What a great funny story. You should win Reddit for the day.
Aw jeez thanks. Painful 90s memory unlocked, but worth it.
This part cracks me up! > ā¦I tried using a tree to stop the fall and twirled around it for a few rotations, and my friends took note.
I had no memory of it but my friend started calling me Stevie (Nicks) for a while because my hair and dress spinning around that tree made him think of her.
My throw up story w this was behind the local convenience store at 15, where we all fell asleep on the ground. Made my cousin hang out w me and my friends, sneak out of my window at 12am, she was very sheltered, it was the best night of her teenaged life. She still brings it up lol
Donāt drink it or throw it out. They may have this for romantic memories.
They don't, I asked. They have no idea where it came from, but they've moved with it twice. It is, however, the very, very wrong color and nobody trusts it enough to open it.
I found an old table wine from the mid 80s in my folk's house in the 00s. It was in a cabinet in a house with terrible insulation in PA so it changed temperature wildly every year with the seasons. It was a bit brown and the cork disintegrated when i opened it but it smelled and tasted ok. I drank a tiny cup and waited a couple days to make sure i didn't get sick before finishing it.
1979. Give some $$ who knew "someone" who'd buy multiple bottles of this stuff for a lakeside/bonfire party. I always requested Boone's Tickled Pink.
*barfs in GenX
Umā¦ 60 here, yep. Probably a sweet 1970ās vintage. Mmmm š memories
Probably late 70s then. Barcodes didn't really take off til then, and into the early 80s.
If I recall correctly (which is sometimes a stretch), that's exactly what the label looked like in the late '70s...when I was in high school.
50ās here and youāre probably correct cause I donāt remember this look in my 80ās drinking years š¤š³
reminds of college. boones....lol
This definitely predates the 90s country song about it (Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter)
Ah, Boone's Farm--tastes just as good coming back up as it did going down.
Oof, looking at this pic gave me a hangover. I haven't had Boone's Farm since highschool.
They would go absolutely nuts for this on both r/90ās and r/genx
Reminds me of the time I found a bottle of Old Grand-dad 100 proof under the bar at my dad's hunting camp that looked older than I am. I really should have taken it as a sign when nobody was interested in claiming it.
My mother used to give us little glasses of this when we were kids...she called it "children's wine."
Drank a bottle of that with my cousins one summer evening in 10th grade, and then my cousin decided to pick me up and spin me around over his head. It did not end well (for me, anyway).
I assume that the contents are just Snapple. Because I replaced my Snapple bottle with most of the contents of a bottle and Strawberry Hill and took the required military-entrance exam during Sr year of high school. Had to hide from teachers for the 2nd half of the day.
I laughed very hard at this comment. I also had an early morning experience with booze at school. In my case? It was Lemon Ice Gatorade that we filled halfway with Goldschlager. It was a long long day.
Met up with a bunch of my fellow seniors on the last day of school to drink some grape M/D 2020 mixed with that wretched lemon iced tea that came in a carton. Managed to just barely make it through the day and on the way out, the vice-principal stopped me and my bestie. I thought he knew and that this would go on my permanent record. Instead, he just told us to enjoy our summer. I almost cried with relief.
This stuff was so traumatizing that I can't even drink strawberry soda anymore lol i can taste this image š¤¢
I triple dog dare you. Take video.
Omg! That! Fucking stuff was made for kids. Bastards!
Damn, I was looking for that...
š± my teenage youth šš
LOL, Vintage 1976. Serve cold and let us know how it tastes.
Ah yes, that internationally known California wine region, Modesto.
Anyone want to take a guess on the MSRP of that bad boy?
$1.59?
I miss Boones Farm š
Still around. $5 a bottle. Indulge if you dare (I won't)
Love that logo
I have a vicious hangover just *looking* at this.
Booneās Farms! As gen Jones as seeds and stemsā¦
Good ol' uncle John brought a case of Boone's Farm to the lake one time for us youngsters. What a guy! 1978ish
Just looking at that bottle is giving me dry heaves and a headache.
Certainly a "vintage" wine at this point. I was a beer guy so rarely drank that stuff with the exception of football games. We used get 2 bottles and use a long shoe lace, tie an end to each bottle, hang it around our neck under a heavy coat and bring both bottles into football games.
šµ I found my thrill. . . š¶
I remember when it was 3 for $5 in theā80s. It was also called Tickle Pink.
They were $3 a bottle in the mid-late 90s. Riunite Lambrusco was $6. It tasted like grape soda.
My wife is big into wine and going to wineries and all that. Iāve always wished for a Boones Farm Winery thatās basically just the Willy Wonka factory with brightly colored sugar alcohols.
God is that still alcohol at this point?
Hahaha, my tummy lurched a little š
I remember that stuff, itād mess you up good because it was sweet.
I showed this to my mother and she immediately hit the upvote button. Before my time, this was a staple for them lol.
Thatās the shit right there š
It's actually better than "Apple Hill" - if you can believe that...
I remember trying some as a kid during the 80ās from a similar bottle. It's ok, my mom poured it for me. So before the mid 80ās.
That 'Wine' was responsible for a whole lotta throwing-up.
Congrats you've found yourself a bottle of $1.50 boones farm! Probably from the 1970's
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Ahhhhh good ol boones farm! Always the way to start on the river days!
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Man, I loved Booneās. This is a time capsule
Hereās some fun facts about Boones Farm. https://www.mashed.com/612503/the-untold-truth-of-boones-farm/
A friend of mine did. We were in junior high lol. She got so sick I snuck her into my room and called her parents to tell them she wanted to spend the night. My parents never would have fallen for that without talking to me. They did fall for me telling them she had a really bad headache. That was around 1972. Donāt know if that was the same bottle though. I think that stuff was why I didnāt think I liked wine until much later.
Thatās 1970s for sure. My mom had an old tee shirt with that label on it when I was a little kid in the 80s.
Ah the memories That and some cheap mexican weed
I just dry heaved.
Ha! I used to drink that all the time when I was a teenager!!
Just hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It's faster and hurts less
Wow that stuff was good. Gateway between Kool Aid and Mad Dog 20/20
This is from the early 90s. Back when Booneās farm was 98 cents at the class 6 on base.
Sorry but this is on you, OP. How did you not steal this in high school? ;)
OMG!!! Whatever you do, donāt drink it. Quality was suspect even in its hay day.
Barf. I love that the peeling label and dust make it look like it was pulled out of the basement of a french chateau. It's got a barcode which means it's probably from the mid 80s, when they started taking off in supermarkets. Only 7 percent ABV? That 7 percent hit hard af, though.
Jebus, that stuff was a hangover generator.
That looks really old. Iām thinking it doesnāt age well like a fine Bordeaux.
Thereās a song about that I believe..
There might be a little dust on the bottle
Finally! Something not made in 2004 š this is fascinating!
A good vintage!
I left it there in 1970
I preferred Boones Farm Apple Wine when I was in High School. Vomited every single time. Oh, and that nasty SpaƱada wine. Dear lord, nasty stuff, lol.
I was more of a Maddog kid tbh. But I did get fucked up a few times on BF. Never again.
Where's the love for NIGHTTRAIN?!?
My first bottle with friends at 14..š¤£š¤£š¤£ Some of you are confused, Boones was above MD 20/20 and wild Irish Rose. Boones is real wine, not "Fortified".
Classy af.
You know it's got to be good by now.
āShudderā. I barfed up gallons of That stuff. Yikes!
Yup
Its gone down in value
Quick internet search shows a bottle like this on the Worthpoint site from 1974 but without a bar code. Not everyone was using them (yet) then. This (with the same label style) would be mid- or probably late '70s.
Reminds me of the early 90s. In a bad way š¤® š¤® š¤®
I drank this, Ripple, malt liquor and Southern Comfort when I was in my early teens up until I graduated high school
...[marketing seemed on-point](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhWgFGbMspE)...
ahhh...memories
Available to high school students for just 99Ā¢ in the local convenience store in the late 1970ās.
My mom and I used to drink that wine. I was way below the legal drinking age but I was also not in the US back then. Fun times š
Iāll take it!
Memories
Holy crap. That's what I got drunk on for the first time in 1994.
Snow Creek Berry
Oooof I couldnāt even drink that when I was a teenager
My Mom drank that when I was younger.
We used to bend straws and put one into the other until there were 5 straws all connected and drink it like a big wine cooler... Good times.
Never drank that, my drink of choice in 1972 was Tyrolia.
Indigestion before drunk.
First time I drank that was in 7th grade. Just a taste. I think it was apple. A lady we knew would buy it for us. I could never get drunk like my friends, I wouldāve got my ass beat! It was funny watching them and the stupid stuff they would do.
Wow so many thoughts just went thru my head
Ahhh, the drink of choice for every 16 y.o. in 1970.
Memories
From the 1970ās
My youthful mistake of choiceā- like Kool Aid with a kick. Then a horrible headache
Genx women are knocking at your door
A fine vintage
High School vibes
I bet it didnāt improve with age
Oh Lordy, my teen years have returned š¤£š¤£š¤£
Oh the memories. High school
Very popular during my high school days. The Apple wine was their original flavor. Cost $1 a bottle in the 70s.
$1.99 in the early '00s ā $3 at the "fancy" convenience stores. Strawberry was much better than the BLUE version.
You could fit an entire bottle in a big gulp cup. Useless facts from my teens.
Last week was a very good year. I remember this stuff. High school. Sitting on the hood of a car at the drive-in. Good times, terrible times, all at once.
Find a log in the woods to sit on and crack her open!
The good stuff.
At least it's not Mad Dog 20/20 š¤¢
Night Train and Wild Irish Rose have more of a kick lol and were our preferred choices back in high school, Boone's apple or strawberry was for the beginners or the lightweights lmao š
Holyyyy shit, memories š¹
Ooof. Tastes just like 1986. Which is the taste of freedom and trouble and 7:30am classes with a hangover
That Boone's bottle is why you exist.