Don Gray wrote:
> Arri London > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:24:46 -0600, Arri London wrote:
>>>
>>> And then there is 'scrumpy', which is homemade (alcoholic) cider.
>>> Powerful, often opaque and doesn't taste of apples at all LOL. And
>>> then there is the fictional 'scumble', which is even more powerful
>>> and made of apples. Mostly apples ;P
>>>
>> Scrumpy is a dialect word from the West Country in the UK; Somerset
>> (which is cider country), Avon etc.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrumpy sums it up reasonably well.
>
> Arri. You've taken me back to the late 1950's. I was a corporal in the
> Territorial Army, R.E.M.E division. Our Yorkshire division spent it's
> annual camp at Tavistock, in Devon. One Saturday we were allowed a
> trip into Plymouth. Four of us tackled the local pubs.
>
> We'd heard of the strength of scrumpy, the local delicacy and being
> youthfully cocky, asked for four pints. A local, seeing the uniforms
> and noting the foreign dialect warned us to drink only halves. Three
> of us agreed but one of our bolshy pals ignored the old sage. The
> booze was drawn from the barrel and although cloudy, went down a
> treat. In less that an hour four had been sunk. We exited.
>
> On hitting the outside air the four pint fella went totally berserk.
> He swung round the nearest lamppost shouting and singing. Just as
> quickly he slid to the concrete and went out like a light.
>
> He had to be trucked back to the barracks. I've never drunk scrumpy
> from that day to this.

LOL One only makes that mistake once)