Hold the Southern Comfort 
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My first really bad hangover experience involved Southern Comfort in my teens after a drinking-game party. (Liar’s Dice?). Now some 40 years later, I avoid it like it’s plague. Even the sight of a bottle… Something of the Devil in there.
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yeah, i had one or two ‘experiences’ with SC, just so sweet and easy to drink…
not a patch on the three day hangover i had after Stella Artois and Pernod the day before i was supposed to go back to school after the summer holidays when i was 15 - couldn’t even smell either for years without wanting to vom.
My older sister was introduced to it during a semester in Durham. Southern Comfort and ginger ale was the drink de rigeur. I doubt she ever over-indulged, however.
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Did you mix the Stella and the Pernod? My older cousin LURVED Pernod/cola as a drink.
Another big, fat nope from here.
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A fifth of SC would accompany our annual two week Sierra backpack trips. We would bribe the local alcoholic to buy it for us the day before we left. We didn’t get ripped drinking it, just a warm buzz by the campfire, over 4 summers age 14-17. We were definitely under age the legal age (21) then. A gallon of OJ mixed with a large amount of Everclear accompanied many a floating excursion down the Truckee in later years.
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ISTR that Southern Comfort has a distinctive odor, but I can’t quite remember how it smells. I’m pretty sure, though, that one whiff would make me start to retch, 45 years after my last experience with it. Thinking about SC reminds me what a former GF and her cousins used to drink: Brass Monkey and Mountain Dew. Ew. Just ew.
[edited to correct atrocious grammar and punctuation]
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You @medgirl are a way cooler mom than I am. But check-in with me in 10 years, when my Spring Onion turns 21 (legal drinking age in the US). Maybe by then, he will have worn me down. 
HBD to your little boy (they will always be little boys, right?).
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Some things change…when I turned 18, I could legally drink! That’s how old I am.
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Ha! Drinking culture in the UK is probably quite different to the US? I would prefer to have the party guests imbibing under my roof with my beady eye on them rather than getting smashed where I have zero control over the situation. There was one invited guest who was underage; I had contacted his mum in advance to warn her there would be alcohol being served - he didn’t end up coming, possibly because of the advance warning to his mum! I hope my kid learns to be responsible with his alcohol intake in the coming years. He certainly has friends who hide their drinking from their parents, which is something I hope to avoid with my kid. My own parents are very disapproving of any sort of alcohol intake - my sister and I still hide the fact that we drink from our parents, and we are in our late 40s!
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I remember you fondly. Unlike my encounter with Southern Comfort!
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This unfortunately is very familiar. No bad hangover but I puked badly and it has served as an aversion ever since. How we bought it is another story. One friend was into magic and bought a glue on mustache from a magic store…add mirrored sunglasses and go to a small local supermarket and you look 21, well not really but no one really checked hard back then.
Back on topic: I was at a Korean BBQ that had the all you can eat deal, which I didn’t get. But I watched a table of 8 teen boys gorge on the AYCE. Apparently it was one kids b-day. Genius move by the parents.
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Aw. Thank you. Despite the very low bar in comparison
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When we were about 16, my best friend and I split a quart size bottle of Tango ( pre mixed screwdrivers) . To this day, some 50 odd years later, just the thought of vodka and orange juice together makes me a little queasy. Some things you never forget.
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Ditto. Violently ill for 2 days after drinking too many Vodka and OJs at a party after high school.
I can have vodka and cranberry or my summertime favorite, vodka and lemonade. But never OJ anymore.
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Mother was a true alcoholic and that influenced my imbibing behavior. I don’t recall ever being out of control. 
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Your reply is part of why I like you so much! Indeed, “better than Southern Comfort” isn’t really high praise…
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Yes! To the detriment of those of us who live in the US. Drinking age is 21, and If we supplied any alcohol or even had alcohol consumed in our house with/without our knowledge, we are legally responsible for anything that happens with those kids - people in our town have been arrested for serving minors (under 21).
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Which is why kids in college in the US are far more susceptible to a trip to the ER.
When I first moved here I couldn’t believe a poster slapped on the state liquor store with what was presumably meant as an indictment of what I would consider sound and responsible parenting: something about a large percentage of underage kids getting their first alcoholic beverages from parents or friends. Uh, yeah. Being introduced to alcohol by one’s parents is likely to be the safest way to encounter alcohol vs. having zero experience and binge drinking at frat parties.
My mother, who was never a drinker — having been married to a severe alcoholic — nevertheless made sure to let me have the occasional sip of champagne on NYE, or a sip of wine here and there when I was as young as 12 or 13. Her biggest fear was not that I’d turn into an alcoholic, but being ‘taken advantage of’ by a man.
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Well I’d make sure no one goes home incapacitated, and none of them are driving. You would be held responsible for serving underage minors if any of them got into accidents or their parents protested. This happened in our neighborhood and the hosts got sued.
