MrsAshy
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Oh you naïve people,it really is the parents.In a country where you need a license for a dog and even one for a TV it seems perfectly settled in letting anyone copulate and spawn little basterds who they then thrust onto society to raise for them.
But that was the perception - alcopops made underage kids drink - whether true or not thats what was peddledAnd the whole alcopop thing was balls too tbh.
Kids weren't ever really attracted to them.
I don't think I was very unusual as a 'kid' - I drank a bit, and I drank to get drunk because that's what it's for. Not because it's yummy.
Now, bearing that in mind, why on earth would I have chosen to try getting a bunch of 4% fizzy sweets when a cheap bottle of thunderbird got the job done so much quicker?
You know where I saw the highest consumption of alcopops?
At a bike rally.
300+ bikers in various states of hairyness wandering around a field and/or doing moped jousting clutching yellow and pink bottles of alcoholic sherbet.
The real ales and stuff didn't sell in anything like the same amount - because when you're in your 20s/30s/40s+ it's a bit of a giggle to get drunk on copious amounts of cartoony branded sweetness.
Now its happening again