I just tasted Southern Comfort for the first time.

[onehandle]

Sixteen year olds must be pretty impressed by it.

(It was free as a promotion at a bar)

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Peach flavored?

[Suich]

11. Could not have said it better myself!

Welcome to DU, eugene jones!

[Lokey]

14. Yep!

Some of us have been there before...had a little flash back when I read your post

[Taverner]

30. LOL

[NYC_SKP]

3. Southern and Seven, down by the river, cutting school!

Yes, Indeed!

[Hoyt]

4. Been awhile, but I remember it as being quite rough.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. Janis Joplin liked it but she was a kid.

[Sedona]

6. Straight Southern Comfort + a 16 year old girl in 1977

= hickies and grounded a week.

[MadrasT]

24. Straight Southern Comfort + a 16 year old girl in 1981

= throwing up for the next 24 hours

I still can't even look at a Southern Comfort ad in a magazine without feeling queasy.

[petronius]

7. I believe the cool and trendy folk refer to it as "SoCo"

That's what the TV tells me, anyway...

Don't think I've had any since I was a kid - back in the wine cooler days.

[Arkansas Granny]

8. I've only had Southern Comfort once in my life.

It was down at the creek with the guy I was dating and another couple, beautiful day, great music on the radio. Good memories.

[pokerfan]

9. Disgusting stuff

I remember having it back in my High School days. Once was enough. But the commercial is funny.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. EXACTLY the right age for me -- 16, New Year's Eve and our parents bought us some...

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... in exchange for a promise to remain INSIDE Bill'a parents' house all night.
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We insisted on 100 proof -- MiddleFingerMomDad said it would teach us a good lesson.
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Up in Bill's attic, we had a cooler full of ice, various mixers, and sliced fruit. And the tale
can probably be told entirely with these opening words:
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It all started off well enough...
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You can guess the rest.
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I have not even been able to SMELL Southern Comfort in all these decades since. You
do NOT, repeat NOT want to get sick on Southern Comfort.
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(edit to add) I have NEVER been able to figure out who they're trying to reach or the
message they're trying to put out with the "hairy guy commercial" right above this.
It's seems simply weird.

[Generic Brad]

12. It reminds me of cough syrup

I don't like the taste of most alcohols, so although it may be quite good, I don't have the ability to appreciate it.

[HarveyDarkey]

16. It's not good, it does taste like cough syrup

and I like whiskeys, bourbons & ryes anyway.

[Generic Brad]

17. Score one for my unsophisticated palate!

Then it really is as bad as I thought!

[onehandle]

18. Flat Diet Coke is what it tasted like.

Ick.

[Kali]

19. oh you poor thing

I am so sorry.

[OriginalGeek]

20. For a LONG time SoCo and coke was the only alcohol my wife would drink

I have finally moved her onto White Russians and now I don't have to stock soco on my liquor shelf so I count that as a win.

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. I worked one bar where instead of cream or half-and-half for cream drinks like White Russians...

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... they had 5-gallon drums of vanilla ice cream in one of the coolers -- mixed all our cream
drinks in a blender we did. It was SO easy to GLADLY spend a lot of money there.
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[OriginalGeek]

27. Good lord!

I'd be pushing 400 pounds if I worked there...Vanilla ice cream huh? I'll be back later...I'm going into fantasy vanilla ice cream alcohol coma for a bit...

[TreasonousBastard]

21. "whiskey flavoring"? WTF is that...

the original stuff was bourbon, spices, and honey. Was sort of a a cocktail back then, but so popular it got bottled and sold.

Now they make it from "grain neutral spirits" (aka vodka for an extra 5-10 bucks a bottle) fruit, spices, sugar, and "whiskey flavoring"

WTF is "whiskey flavoring"?

[MrScorpio]

22. Give me my Crown Royal instead

Schmoove.

[onehandle]

23. That's what my 'sophisticated' friends drank in younger years.

Then they would use the purple bag to hold their Dungeons & Dragons dice.

[OriginalGeek]

28. lol!

we used ours to hold weed.

[pokerfan]

33. Crown works

So does a decent Añejo...

[sendero]

25. If you have any taste at all...

.. it will also be your last taste.

[onehandle]

29. Oh, it was.

It was free. And I was done.

Went back to craft beers right after.

[d_r]

31. I remember it was pretty nasty when I was 16

I'm sure it still is. Janis Joplin loved it apparently.

[kwassa]

32. You probably tasted Southern Comfort for the last time, too.

That was my experience.

Once. No need to repeat.