They Stopped Making Ripple? HUH?
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September 19th, 2010 at 9:05:59 PM
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Boy, am I behind the times. I just now found out Gallo stopped making Ripple in 1984. I loved that stuff when I was underage, it got the girls really drunk and it tasted like soda pop. There's a really great website called Modern Drunkard http://www.drunkard.com/issues/05_03/05-03-bogart.html if your into all things alcoholic. Fred Sanford mixed it with champagne and called it 'Champipple'.
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September 19th, 2010 at 9:56:06 PM
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I've always wondered what ripple tasted like. To be honest, I thought it was some kind of cheap homemade alcohol, but never did any research about it. My beverage of choice pre-21 was wine coolers. I remember "Sun County" used to sell them in 2-liter bottles, which was plenty for one person for a whole night.
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September 19th, 2010 at 10:10:52 PM
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Quote: WizardI've always wondered what ripple tasted like. To be honest, I thought it was some kind of cheap homemade alcohol, but never did any research about it. My beverage of choice pre-21 was wine coolers. I remember "Sun County" used to sell them in 2-liter bottles, which was plenty for one person for a whole night.
Ripple was the early version of a wine cooler, only it had more carbonation. It tasted a lot like soda pop with a kick. It was everywhere all through the 70's, women and college students loved it.
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September 19th, 2010 at 11:07:46 PM
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Quote: WizardI've always wondered what ripple tasted like. To be honest, I thought it was some kind of cheap homemade alcohol, but never did any research about it. My beverage of choice pre-21 was wine coolers. I remember "Sun County" used to sell them in 2-liter bottles, which was plenty for one person for a whole night.
I think that Bartles & Jaymes stuff took all their market share. It actually tasted pretty good; probably better than Ripple.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.---George Bernard Shaw
September 20th, 2010 at 9:36:57 PM
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