That was good stuff, even if it was just a cheap wine. Back when I was on the road all of the time and selling insurance and living out of motel rooms most of the time, I would sometimes just have some Strawberry Hill with Dorito chips and ranch dip, and it made a quick and easy nighttime snack. I always had paperwork to do at night, and then it was nice just to read and relax and the chips were a perfect accompniment along with the Boone’s Farm wine.
99-cents a bottle. During a promotion, they were giving the stuff away. First, I think there was just the Apple Wine and the Strawberry Hill. Then they added more.
As a very young airman with little to no money, these guys were the accused. Sitting around the barracks on a Friday night playing Dominoes with fellow, broke friends. Any label that had a Locomotive coming at you, meant you were in for one heck of a night...
I was in Washington, DC during an antiwar protest in April of 1971, and Boone's Farm was free in the liquor stores. The city was littered with Boone's Farm bottles.
Does anyone know if Lancers white is still made we called the 100% wine if a person drank much of it.
I was never enough of a drinker to do the Mad Dog 20:20, but I have risked being jailed for being a minor in possession of it many times.
I never had a taste for any of the sweet cheap wines. Not a snob, just didn't like the stuff much. I am a fan of dark red table-type wines, but I have drunk Mateus with cheese many years ago. Someone left a bottle of Thunderbird in our college apartment, but no one could drink the stuff. I don't remember Boone's Farm being free, however.
Funny, but whenever we see a wine sampling at Walmart or local grocery store, I will tell the person giving out the sample, "there's only one kind of really good wine and that was Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill." Sometimes the person is old enough to remember that wine, sometimes not. I laugh after saying that. During the 21 years I was single, I'd never date a woman who drank wine. Beer, yes, but not wine or mixed drinks. My preference. The women that I knew, not dated, that drank wine or a mixed drinks, were pretty high-class women (looks and dress) and were generally with guys that owned a nice/new vehicle and had a very nice income, of when I had neither. Men who drink fine wine, which is definitely not what Boone's Farm was, weren't the athletic or construction type men. They were more like lawyers, doctors and such. The rodeo family I knew didn't drink wine or mixed drinks. Only beer. Fortunate, for me, my wife loves beer and will drink it from a can or bottle. She also drinks some wine and champagne, but very seldom. IOW, she's my kind of woman...…...beer drinker!
You can't go by that... My son loves beer, especially dark beer. My daughter likes her Corona occasionally... Daughter and SIl have 2 wine fridges and are in wine clubs and have many bottles of wine that cost about $200 each. But they also like a beer. I have always hated beer. Don't like the taste. Although there was a period when my son was in dental school that I did drink a lot of beer....I could out drink his friends ... We'd always go this place called Fast Eddies ...that place was packed. That guy was making a fortune. Think the place still exists. It was in downtown Alton, Il. Drinks were cheap, he had a few simple foods cheap. I remember you could get cooked shrimp by the piece for 25 cents each. Hamburgers were maybe 99 cents...the college crowd loved it but so did locals. Yep, still there... https://www.fasteddiesbonair.com/ When I went there was the late 90's. It was such a fun place. Ive been back a few times when I visited my son and DIL...but since I don't drink now..not as fun, lol But fun memories.
Will just say that it's been my experience about the difference between beer drinkers and wine/mixed drink people. Just remember, I was single (divorced) for 21 years and almost every Friday and Saturday night I'd be at a Country-Western nightclub. I was a very light beer drinker, but very observant of what others drank, what they wore and picky on what ladies I asked to dance. For a number of years, I hung around with rodeo people, so I know what they drink and it wasn't wine or mixed drinks. The "difference" I'm referring to is what I seen at places I went to.
Ok...I'm just saying what Ive seen. My son and daughter in law will order beer unless it's a fancy place for dinner.