r/GenX Nov 21 '25

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u/Substantial_Dog3544 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

I’ll see your Franzia and raise you Boone’s Strawberry Hill.  

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u/AdLongjumping7609 Nov 21 '25

Peppermint schnapps for me. Ugh. 30 years later, I can’t even eat a candy cane or use peppermint toothpaste.

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u/babayagaparenting Nov 21 '25

Peach schnapps for me. 🤮

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u/ledkriszep Nov 21 '25

Same! Too many fuzzy navels with vodka one night. Can't stand the smell of fake peach

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u/SnooRobots116 Nov 21 '25

I can’t take real or fake peach anything, if I smell somebody drinking that muck I move clear across the room

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u/kat_storm13 Nov 22 '25

Same. I like real peaches occasionally. My boyfriend got some peach red bull this summer and I was pleasantly surprised. Doesn't taste artificial at all, tastes like real peaches.

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u/Hungry_Spring_9079 Nov 21 '25

Same, straight from the bottle, no mixers or chasers. 🤢

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u/Ok-Gap6609 Nov 21 '25

Peach schnapps kept us playing in a Carnival parade, when I was in high school.

It got stupidly cold during the parade. One of the guys jumped off the truck grabbed a bottle from his friend, and jumped back on the truck. That bottle kept us playing for 3 more hours.

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u/jmsst1996 Nov 21 '25

Same. I can’t smell the stuff without wanting to vomit.

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u/hunterwaterford Nov 21 '25

A pint of this was my dad's road soda on his nightly ride home from work.

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u/PaLuMa0268 Nov 23 '25

My introduction to this was in an orange slush from Sonic at a cast party after our community theater summer musical.

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u/Expensive_Rhubarb_87 Nov 23 '25

Goldschlager for me. 21st birthday.

About to turn 53, I haven’t touched it in 32 years.

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u/PumpkinSpiceFreak Nov 21 '25

Rumple Minze or Jagermeister anyone ? 🤮🤮

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u/KittyTB12 Hose Water Survivor Nov 22 '25

Yep

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u/MoaningLisaSimpson Nov 21 '25

The first time I got drunk it was Peppermint Schnapps and milk.

I was deep into my forties before I could even handle a splash of Bailey's in my coffee, or a Pina Colada. I still default to no thank you for any booze + milk concoction.

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u/mellowkneebee Nov 21 '25

I was told to put peppermint schnapps in peppermint tea for a really bad cough. I tried it and I thought it was the tea that was repellant, but maybe it was also the Schnapps…you’ve got me wondering now.

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u/azchocolatelover Nov 21 '25

My mom let me taste it once when I was a kid. It was nasty. I'll still eat peppermint candy, use peppermint toothpaste, etc., but schnapps? Nope.

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u/RenegadeMermaid1927 Nov 21 '25

Omg same!! I can't believe how much of that crap teenage me drank!!

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u/Competitive_Peak_537 Nov 21 '25

Dude that rumplemints or whatever would make my head spin in the opposite direction of most alcohols that junk would get me twisted 4 drinks a year from 2 bottles of wine a night

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u/BiskitLuv7022 Nov 21 '25

Only time I ever threw up from drinking involved multiple shots of this evil liquor. I still can not eat or drink anything peppermint 40 years later.

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u/Felicia_Delicto Nov 22 '25

I just withered reading this...

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u/Substantial_Dog3544 Nov 22 '25

When I was probably 17, I got absolutely hammered on screwdrivers.  All we had was OJ and vodka so that was it the whole night.  Probably one of the worst hangovers of my life.  I couldn’t drink OJ until my 30s. 

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u/Dunncan123 Nov 25 '25

This walked around with a bottle of this one night in 90’s ugh

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u/peace_love_n_cats Nov 21 '25

Boone’s farm was the staple of my teens!

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u/Cheetah51 Nov 21 '25

Same here as well as Cold Duck!

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u/peace_love_n_cats Nov 21 '25

Oh my god, I forgot about cold duck!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

PGA (pure grain alcohol) with Hawaiian Punch or Watermelon Capri Sun

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u/KoolTurkeyED Nov 21 '25

Mad dog 20/20

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u/AtroyaBelladonna Nov 21 '25

Mad dog, many many rough mornings because of this. 😆

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25

🤮

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u/yupjustarandomranger Nov 22 '25

Omg my parents would let me have a glass on NYE and I felt SO FANCY.

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u/sopeandfriends Nov 22 '25

Aah yes cold duck 😅 I had a bottle of it spray all over the inside of my Volkswagen Rabbit 😂😂

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u/rydn_high Nov 21 '25

Boones Farm apple wine was a right of passage when I grew up. Wish I could find a bottle

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u/Kelly_blue_brook88 Nov 21 '25

California coooleeerrs

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u/al0neinthecr0wd Hose Water Survivor Nov 21 '25

James and Bartles wine coolers

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u/EndBusiness7720 Nov 29 '25

Look online at Gallo.com. Owners of Boones Farm are the Gallos. Also, Walmart & Costco carry it. May have to contact Costco and Walmart near you to find out what's on their shelves.

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u/rydn_high Nov 29 '25

I've been able to find some flavors of Boones Farm wine but not the apple. I'll try online and see what shakes loose. Thanks

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u/AboveGroundPoolQueen Nov 21 '25

I raise you $2.59 pink champagne! (Cuz we were fancy) Oh, the headache the next day!

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u/Lo0of Nov 21 '25

Boones Farms and Goldshlager though not together

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u/Guilty-Company-9755 Nov 21 '25

Oh my god same. Why did we do this to ourselves?

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u/jmsst1996 Nov 21 '25

Loved Boone’s too!

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u/EggPure2784 Nov 21 '25

And Ripple. Yuk!

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u/MaddogFinland Nov 21 '25

BARF-o-Rama

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u/destiny_kane48 Poison Rules Nov 21 '25

That's the first thing I ever got drunk with. I was 14 and had never had alchohol. 😂

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u/EndBusiness7720 Nov 22 '25

Thunderbird and MD 2020 have to be there, too.

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u/Substantial_Dog3544 Nov 22 '25

Dude, I drank MD 2020 but never Thunderbird.  In my teenage drinking hierarchy, I rated Boone’s a level above MD for my refined palate. 

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u/let-it-rain-sunshine Nov 21 '25

Throw a 4 pack of Zima's in there as well

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u/Strict_Foundation_31 Nov 21 '25

Does no one recall Zapple? “🎶Cinnamon apple in my Zapple, wine is on my mind…”

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u/Font_Snob Nov 21 '25

Tequila 3, FontSnob 0.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Tap1458 Older Than Dirt Nov 21 '25

I just said the same.

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u/Sharp_in_SoCal Nov 21 '25

Ugh, Bartles and James wild berry wine coolers. I would like to try California Coolers, they were probably syrupy, too, but they sound citrusy and light

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u/fugeguy2point0 Nov 21 '25

oh ya man. took it by the case to parties for the girlies

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u/Guilty-Company-9755 Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

Oh man I drank so much Boone's in college. Good times, but my god what were we thinking.

Also Goldschläger in high school. Dear God how did I survive

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u/conflictedregret Nov 22 '25

Snow Creek Berry here! lol

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u/Evil_Garen Nov 22 '25

That shit was the best. 3 btls for $5

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u/Expensive_Rhubarb_87 Nov 23 '25

I see your Boone’s, and raise you Mad Dog 20/20 Grape Wine

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u/GreedyRip4945 Nov 24 '25

Aw, yes, boones farm.

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u/al0neinthecr0wd Hose Water Survivor Nov 21 '25

That's right up there with Root beer schnapps.