Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A Real Tonic

The tonic wine made by the Benedictine monks of Buckfast Abbey, Devon is currently coming in for some rather bad press.  Apparently at 15% ABV, £5 a bottle and laced with caffeine, it is very popular with young Scottish drinkers and is implicated in a large proportion of crime in certain parts of Scotland.

Two little plays on words that I rather like are one of its street names ~ "commotion lotion" and the rather cynical observation that it's "made by monks for drunks".

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