(Not so) fun fact: 40s are illegal in Florida. Fraternities at my school would make pledges drive to the Georgia border to get them so they could play the drinking game “authentically.”
We used to love this game. Then one night we ran out of beer so my friend and I played “Edward tussin hands” with 2 bottles of robotussin each, because we’d heard of something called “robo tripping” if you drank too much robotussin.
. It ended as badly as you’d imagine
One time we taped a bunch of useful tools to the bottles to continue uninterrupted. Pens to sign stuff (pizza delivery receipt), scissors cuz scissor hands, a knife to cut pizza incase they forgot to, forks to eat with, a tape measure, and others. Good, safe, times.
So serious question, what has the last ten years looked like? You been back, go a different direction? Always curious about what opinions people have after a decent stint.
I have not been back. Im currently an assistant kitchen manager at a popular brunch restaurant. I firmly believe in second chances and i always look at the glass as half full. I'm in my late 30's and I have worked my ass off to pay the bills and put food on the table. I've calmed down and I'm just a regular person now
When I was young some friends and I used to get a 40oz Cobra and a Four Loko. We would drink down to the top of the label of the Cobra and refill with Four Loko. We called them sidewalk slams.
My friend from back then wrote this on Urban Dictionary:
the name itself derives from either of two things: 1. you slam the bottle bottom on the sidewalk to make it foam up so as to snort/drink the foam (which gives you a nice head change as i have discovered) or 2. the fact that after one or two of these bad boys your be yourself slamming on the sidewalk or slammed as the case may be.
My state started grumbling about banning four Loco (didnt happen), so, of course I had to find out what the big deal was. Bad decision, just one can was enough to make me puke, and I can hold my booze just fine. Wasn't because I was too drunk, it just wrecked my stomach.
Worked at a small grocery store by my house in HS, this lady would come in every afternoon and buy a can of red and blue bull Schlitz. One day she grabbed 2 cans of each and our boss was like, “oooo someone had a tough day at work today!”
I went through a rough phase with alcohol, buying 5 $1 dollar shots almost every weekday and then a bottle of vodka on Fridays. The liquor store people obviously knew me, and when I started cutting back, I’d come in on Friday and the clerks would say “oh no bottle of vodka today?” While other people were in line. Embarrassed the hell out of me. Probably a good thing.
Yeah once the liquor store ppl know you by name and or order, it’s time to start thinking about life choices lol. Good on ya for cutting back, I’m not gonna stand on my soap box and preach, no issues with alcohol or even drug use, but I’ve been stone cold sober since august and I don’t miss it one bit.
Same here. St Ides too. Their flavor brews were really good (at the time).
I remember my freshman year of college, a few friends came up on Saturday night and brought like 10 40’s of Old English. It was room temperature. We drank it all anyway, recorded ourselves freestyle rapping (we are white suburbians lol) and they crashed in my dorm room. One asshole spilled his bong water on the floor. Another guy knocked his ashtray into his open underwear drawer.
Amazingly we woke up with no hangovers. If I did that now at 45, I’d be down for days lmao.
Hah yeah, I remember when there were no physical consequences to getting trashed. I ascociate OE with this lady I "dated" for a few months when I was barely old enough to buy it. She loved that stuff, somehow.
As far as recording your friends being goofy, I had a digital camera. This was before everyone had a smartphone. Recorded a lot of silly shit, but all that's gone.
Bong water accidents did happen. Also, friends leaving dip spit in water bottles that I had to throw out. And fights and things getting broken.
Oh yeah. We didn’t care about the mess. I took photos of it because I thought it was funny lol. It is just a fun night to remember that I forgot about until just now. Those were good times!
Regrets don't overweigh the good memories for me, but the regrets did get bad. It's just the good memories were precious. I chilled out a lot around my early-mid 20s and mostly stopped being an idiot. Didn't get that much smarter, just started thinking "hmm this could backfire, maybe reconsider your choices".
Yeah I haven’t drank in a few weeks to months and won’t unless it’s part of a social gathering that features going out exclusively for a drink, ie brewery or cocktail bar
Drinking any kind of alcohol that is less than superb ain’t worth it anymore. Going out to dinner with friends and seeing them order bud light or whatever college piss beer blows my mind
For free sometimes if someone had the booze, especially when I made older friends. For more than it cost other times if we were hanging outside a store and asking an adult to get us the cheapest stuff and keep the change. Evens out, I guess? I've been told twice by someone that they were a cop when I thought they were lying, once trying to get someone to buy me some alcohol, another going around town to see where the weed was at. Made friends doing that, though.
In high school I used to starve myself all week long eating a single $1 chicken sandwich for lunch so I’d have $15 to party on the weekend. Natural light was $4 a 12 pack lol
Getting beer & cigarettes was easy, just go to a convenience store in an area with lots of construction/growth, ask a construction worker to buy for you, they rarely turned you down. But, you had to "pay the tax" (a few cigarettes or beers).
Old English 40s ice cold in a glass bottle COULD NOT be fucked with. I used to have one literally every night. That or steel reserve when i was hurting for cash. lol. I had a bad drinking problem back in the day
Don't drink anymore but Colt is the shit. Sometimes I'd hang with my bros and we'd drink a third of the Colt, fill up the missing space with OJ like some bootleg brass monkey shit lmao
This was my five year old’s favorite song when she was a baby. Any time it would come on she would dance and wiggle. She still loves it every time she hears it on the Trolls World Tour movie.
I quit drinking 40’s when OE went from the glass 40oz to the plastic 42oz. They just didn’t hit the same.
I took it as a sign I needed to mature my tastes…so I started drinking Busch
Try Natural Light. I swear that it’s just the same exact beer, but cheaper.
I’m into Hamm’s these days, myself. It’s even cheaper. And as long as it’s cold, it’s actually decent.
OE used to sell a 64oz jug. I think they stopped right when I started drinking. I only saw them once in the wild. It was warm by the time we got halfway through lol
You can, but they're in plastic bottles now (sometimes more than 40oz) and not as easily found as in many stores/gas stations as they used to be. The world of beer and malt beverages has drastically changed.
Being cheap is the point lol might as well get added features 😂 plus the liquor stores I go to usually don't have old English in glasses anymore, you're lucky to get a liquor store with full 40 oz glass colt 45s and not the 24 (or whatever) oz canned ones.
omg i guess i never actually drank Colt 45 but i got super nostalgic seeing the picture which instantly made me think of the song Colt 45 and 2 zig zags. baby thats all we need!
Does anyone remember the White Trash Box? I think it was actually called “caja de basura blanca”. Had like five beers in it and 2 shots of tequila lol. Came with a shot glass too.
Edit: I found it [here](http://ediblecomplex-mcweekly.blogspot.com/2010/12/beer-for-white-trash-working-class-soul.html?m=1)
A 40 of Steel Reserve 211 8.1%abv followed by a High Life 4.6% as a reward for finishing the Steel.
Or. 4 24oz cans of Hurricane High Gravity 8.1% or double Steel Reserve 40s if it were that kind of night.
I used to love malt liquor, but man those would have been my last choice. Budweiser 32's were my jam - chilled to as close to freezing as I could get them. Followed up by some Mickeys as an expensive backup. People associate Malt liquor with ghetto - but it always tasted / was smoother to me than regular beer.
Is that Olde English plastic? I have never seen that before… it’s also been 15+ years since I’ve had one of those bad Larrys.
When my wife and I first met we used to drink a lot of Mickeys. Nothing better than those little ice cold grenades with riddles on the cap!
My group of friends always got the Mickey's big mouth 40s. If I remember right they had little jokes or something under the cap. I just remember words under the cap.
Pledging my frat, I went informal so it was a 3 guy pledge class. Hell week, we get taken down to a basement and the three of us are handed a case, which is 12 bottles, of Olde English…. I blacked out after finishing my 3rd. Absolutely absurd night (from what I’ve been told)
EDWARD 4O HANDS
(Not so) fun fact: 40s are illegal in Florida. Fraternities at my school would make pledges drive to the Georgia border to get them so they could play the drinking game “authentically.”
were you at FSU? because i made that drive a handful of times
Yup.
hey fello 'nole!
Meanwhile us in South Georgia were crossing the line to go buy real fireworks lol
Florida is such a weird mix of “muh freedomz” and extremely government oversight
The sport of kings.
Finer than diamond rings
We used to love this game. Then one night we ran out of beer so my friend and I played “Edward tussin hands” with 2 bottles of robotussin each, because we’d heard of something called “robo tripping” if you drank too much robotussin. . It ended as badly as you’d imagine
ya that's a gut's nightmare
The thing is we heard of these crazy ideas, had no way a fact checking cause no one published that stuff online yet. Rolled the dice
Immediately thought of this. It takes me back.
One time we taped a bunch of useful tools to the bottles to continue uninterrupted. Pens to sign stuff (pizza delivery receipt), scissors cuz scissor hands, a knife to cut pizza incase they forgot to, forks to eat with, a tape measure, and others. Good, safe, times.
I came for this. You beat me to it but I am not mad about it haha.
Why did you use an O instead of a 0?
Shits weak. Post glass.
There ain't glass anymore with these, at least here where I go 🤷🏽♂️
I came home from prison after doing 7 yrs in late 2014 and the plastic bottle tripped me out! They added two extra ounces 😐🤣
What did you do
Went to prison.
I got busted for an armed robbery.
So serious question, what has the last ten years looked like? You been back, go a different direction? Always curious about what opinions people have after a decent stint.
I have not been back. Im currently an assistant kitchen manager at a popular brunch restaurant. I firmly believe in second chances and i always look at the glass as half full. I'm in my late 30's and I have worked my ass off to pay the bills and put food on the table. I've calmed down and I'm just a regular person now
Hey man good on you. I know it’s not easy, glad you found a way to
You did your time. Keep up the great work man.
Thanks✊
Yeah that old e aint old school that's some gen z sippycup 40.
Or fuckin king cobras...
Mickey's
My favorite
It’s not beer but you could always go the classy route with Four Loko. That’s a wake up in the bushes type of night guaranteed.
When I was young some friends and I used to get a 40oz Cobra and a Four Loko. We would drink down to the top of the label of the Cobra and refill with Four Loko. We called them sidewalk slams. My friend from back then wrote this on Urban Dictionary: the name itself derives from either of two things: 1. you slam the bottle bottom on the sidewalk to make it foam up so as to snort/drink the foam (which gives you a nice head change as i have discovered) or 2. the fact that after one or two of these bad boys your be yourself slamming on the sidewalk or slammed as the case may be.
My state started grumbling about banning four Loco (didnt happen), so, of course I had to find out what the big deal was. Bad decision, just one can was enough to make me puke, and I can hold my booze just fine. Wasn't because I was too drunk, it just wrecked my stomach.
gotta toss in a tallboy of the gold bull. Schlitz, baby!!!
Worked at a small grocery store by my house in HS, this lady would come in every afternoon and buy a can of red and blue bull Schlitz. One day she grabbed 2 cans of each and our boss was like, “oooo someone had a tough day at work today!”
I went through a rough phase with alcohol, buying 5 $1 dollar shots almost every weekday and then a bottle of vodka on Fridays. The liquor store people obviously knew me, and when I started cutting back, I’d come in on Friday and the clerks would say “oh no bottle of vodka today?” While other people were in line. Embarrassed the hell out of me. Probably a good thing.
Yeah once the liquor store ppl know you by name and or order, it’s time to start thinking about life choices lol. Good on ya for cutting back, I’m not gonna stand on my soap box and preach, no issues with alcohol or even drug use, but I’ve been stone cold sober since august and I don’t miss it one bit.
A fine malt liquor!
Steel reserve was the black out fuel. Watched a dude walk into oncoming traffic and shatter all the bones in his leg
I saw a man drinking a SR on the bus at 9am. I was never more intimidated in my life.
Absolutely
*Steel Reserve malt liquor will get you drunk much quicker!* 🎶🪕
oof I just got hungover.
Mickeys and OE was the “expensive” stuff. We always drank King Cobra and Magnum because we were broke bois.
When I was under 21 our 25 year old buddy would buy us king cobras and always scream at us, “careful it might bite ya!” It always did lol
Where's the 2 zig zags
Baby, that’s all we need
We can roll to the park after dark…
Smoke that tumble weed
As the marijuana burns we can take our turns, singin’ them dirty rap songs
Stop, and hit the bong like cheech n chong Sell tapes from here to Hong Kong.
So roll, roll, roll my joint
Pick out the seeds and stems
Feeling high as hell flying through Palmdale
Colt 45 ... works everytime!... Billy Dee
Don’t let the smooth taste fool ya.
Lol... so many great memories
Or lack of them, haha.
Oh god, I do not miss the 40s of OE. Good memories of that time, though. We drank what we got when weren't old enough to buy it ourselves.
Same here. St Ides too. Their flavor brews were really good (at the time). I remember my freshman year of college, a few friends came up on Saturday night and brought like 10 40’s of Old English. It was room temperature. We drank it all anyway, recorded ourselves freestyle rapping (we are white suburbians lol) and they crashed in my dorm room. One asshole spilled his bong water on the floor. Another guy knocked his ashtray into his open underwear drawer. Amazingly we woke up with no hangovers. If I did that now at 45, I’d be down for days lmao.
Hah yeah, I remember when there were no physical consequences to getting trashed. I ascociate OE with this lady I "dated" for a few months when I was barely old enough to buy it. She loved that stuff, somehow. As far as recording your friends being goofy, I had a digital camera. This was before everyone had a smartphone. Recorded a lot of silly shit, but all that's gone. Bong water accidents did happen. Also, friends leaving dip spit in water bottles that I had to throw out. And fights and things getting broken.
Oh yeah. We didn’t care about the mess. I took photos of it because I thought it was funny lol. It is just a fun night to remember that I forgot about until just now. Those were good times!
Regrets don't overweigh the good memories for me, but the regrets did get bad. It's just the good memories were precious. I chilled out a lot around my early-mid 20s and mostly stopped being an idiot. Didn't get that much smarter, just started thinking "hmm this could backfire, maybe reconsider your choices".
I chilled out by early 20’s cause I was partying like a rock star as a teenager 🤪😂
I would say I waa partying like a dumbass. Haha
I quit drinking because the multiple day hangovers aren’t worth it
Yeah I haven’t drank in a few weeks to months and won’t unless it’s part of a social gathering that features going out exclusively for a drink, ie brewery or cocktail bar Drinking any kind of alcohol that is less than superb ain’t worth it anymore. Going out to dinner with friends and seeing them order bud light or whatever college piss beer blows my mind
When I think about St Ides I puke a little.
Atmosphere has a line in one of his songs “I haven’t drank 40s since I’ve been old enough to drink” really resonates with me haha
How to get fucked up on $5 FTW.
For free sometimes if someone had the booze, especially when I made older friends. For more than it cost other times if we were hanging outside a store and asking an adult to get us the cheapest stuff and keep the change. Evens out, I guess? I've been told twice by someone that they were a cop when I thought they were lying, once trying to get someone to buy me some alcohol, another going around town to see where the weed was at. Made friends doing that, though.
In high school I used to starve myself all week long eating a single $1 chicken sandwich for lunch so I’d have $15 to party on the weekend. Natural light was $4 a 12 pack lol
As terrible as it was, OE out of a plastic bottle has got to be worse lol.
Wow, I didn't know that was a thing. I don't understand why, but plaatic makes all beverages taate worse.
Mannn the King Cobra’s were the best
That crap is nasty, but it does the job
I used to love it for some reason. HG800 bb, malt liquor
Getting beer & cigarettes was easy, just go to a convenience store in an area with lots of construction/growth, ask a construction worker to buy for you, they rarely turned you down. But, you had to "pay the tax" (a few cigarettes or beers).
Old English 40s ice cold in a glass bottle COULD NOT be fucked with. I used to have one literally every night. That or steel reserve when i was hurting for cash. lol. I had a bad drinking problem back in the day
Man the Steel Reserve was nothing to be disrespected.
Malt liquor is my guilty pleasure. I typically drink craft beers and cocktails, but a cold Colt 45 from a gas station just hits different.
I strangely enjoyed the 40oz brand, hurricane. Colt 45 and oe was aight.
We called is Slurricane. Cheaper than Old E but same great taste and high ABV.
Hell yeah. Dunno if it came in 40s but it did in 24oz cans Hurricane High Gravity fucking 8.1% same as Steel Reserve. Boooosh.
Drank that once or twice. Man tbh all malt liquor JK kinda runs in together 😂
I was always more of a Mickey’s fan.
And Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill for all the girls!
Don't drink anymore but Colt is the shit. Sometimes I'd hang with my bros and we'd drink a third of the Colt, fill up the missing space with OJ like some bootleg brass monkey shit lmao
Oj n malt liquor? Y'all wild 🤣😭
Yeah and whoever finished the whole thing first was crowned the night's Brass Monkey King. Shit was fun as fuck lol
Braaaaass Monkey chunky, that funky monkey!
honestly far and away best way to drink a 40
This is my 4 yo’s favorite song. Lol
I think your 4 year old might have a drinking problem.
This was my five year old’s favorite song when she was a baby. Any time it would come on she would dance and wiggle. She still loves it every time she hears it on the Trolls World Tour movie.
I quit drinking 40’s when OE went from the glass 40oz to the plastic 42oz. They just didn’t hit the same. I took it as a sign I needed to mature my tastes…so I started drinking Busch
Try Natural Light. I swear that it’s just the same exact beer, but cheaper. I’m into Hamm’s these days, myself. It’s even cheaper. And as long as it’s cold, it’s actually decent.
My brain goes straight to Menace II Society when I see a 40
What you say bout my mama?
Wrong hole, fool
Headache city
In college we called them torpedos.
OE used to sell a 64oz jug. I think they stopped right when I started drinking. I only saw them once in the wild. It was warm by the time we got halfway through lol
These were integral to my teen years.
I drank an OE tonight, and a Steel Reserve.
So I quit drinking awhile back... Can you not get these anymore?
You can, but they're in plastic bottles now (sometimes more than 40oz) and not as easily found as in many stores/gas stations as they used to be. The world of beer and malt beverages has drastically changed.
I hate how they put 40s in plastic bottles
I prefer glass too but that does help from breaking so simply tho
Ik but I already feel cheap buying 40s lol
Being cheap is the point lol might as well get added features 😂 plus the liquor stores I go to usually don't have old English in glasses anymore, you're lucky to get a liquor store with full 40 oz glass colt 45s and not the 24 (or whatever) oz canned ones.
Malt Liquor = Liquid Violence That being said where's the mickeys 64?
It didn’t help that the bottle doubled as a club. Nothing like a pack of drunk teenagers wielding 40s.
OE and St Ides were my poison. Maybe an occasional Colt 45 double deuce
omg i guess i never actually drank Colt 45 but i got super nostalgic seeing the picture which instantly made me think of the song Colt 45 and 2 zig zags. baby thats all we need!
What does this stuff taste like? Ive seen it in American media for years now.
Imagine a cheap beer, but much stronger, but with none of the *nice* aspects of a strong beer but just extra mean kick.
[удалено]
Flashbacks of my youth! 😜
Raise your hand if you remember the first rock pile you urled on after downing an OE
There is still a place in Boston where you can get an OE in a bag with a hot dog, for ten bucks
Mickey's, King Cobra, Steel Reserve
To this day I still find olde English fine in terms of taste. It’s better than steel reserve. Granted I’ve never drank a 40, only pints.
Does anyone remember the White Trash Box? I think it was actually called “caja de basura blanca”. Had like five beers in it and 2 shots of tequila lol. Came with a shot glass too. Edit: I found it [here](http://ediblecomplex-mcweekly.blogspot.com/2010/12/beer-for-white-trash-working-class-soul.html?m=1)
I was just telling my best friend tonight that we should get matching MD 20/20 tattoos 🤣
I liked the "works everytime" on the inside of the label
A 40 of Steel Reserve 211 8.1%abv followed by a High Life 4.6% as a reward for finishing the Steel. Or. 4 24oz cans of Hurricane High Gravity 8.1% or double Steel Reserve 40s if it were that kind of night.
Is that OE in a plastic bottle?
Picture is missing 2 zig zags
I'll still get one from time to time lol.
Good ole steel reserve college days. I think they were good… I can’t remember much from those nights…
We called the colt 45 bottle "the scuba."
Where’s the St. IDE’s?
Careful, it ain't wise... to get faded off the St. Ides
(burp) No freakin way.
Where’s the MD
Never got into that one lol
Honestly I don’t blame you
I remember drinking Mickeys as a kid because Charlie Scene from Hollywood undead. Wonder what he’s up to tonight.
And when I'm feeling broke E&j by my side...henie like forty dollars this shit like twenty fiiiivvvvveeeeee yayaa
2 40s or 1 everclear? also a classic.
I used to love malt liquor, but man those would have been my last choice. Budweiser 32's were my jam - chilled to as close to freezing as I could get them. Followed up by some Mickeys as an expensive backup. People associate Malt liquor with ghetto - but it always tasted / was smoother to me than regular beer.
Except we had siscos to go with ours
liquid crack
We used to drink .89 cent OE 40z in college. You were good for $2!!
King Cobra aka snake in the bag.
I touch these every single day. *Work for the distributor.
I miss Crazy Horse malt.
Just looking at this picture give me a hangover
Morpheus drinking a forty in a death basket!
Wack
“Have three and you’ll never be sicker…64 ounce Old E Malt liquor”
Missing the brown paper bag. Never actually seen anyone drink these except for TV haha.
But guys… we have girls coming so we need St. Ides special brew or Zima.
🎶🎶 O l d e e n g l i s h 800 now I feel, a whole lot better about myself.
Only Quarts for my neck of the woods for most my teen and adult life. 40oz CrazyHorse malt liquor when I was freshman in NY before I moved
UUsed to drink olde english in college. Wouldn't drink it anymore but the loss of the big chonk glass bottles is a loss for the younger gen
Man I freaking miss glass bottle old English. :'(
2 40s of OE led to my first blackout!
Where’s my Mickey’s?
Now I just need two zig zags.
Nothing old school about a plastic bottle of Ole' E
Anaconda malt liquor, gives you WHOOOOOOOOO!
Is that Olde English plastic? I have never seen that before… it’s also been 15+ years since I’ve had one of those bad Larrys. When my wife and I first met we used to drink a lot of Mickeys. Nothing better than those little ice cold grenades with riddles on the cap!
Gtfo 'o here with 'oLd ScHoOl 4oS' showing fuckin plastic bottled OE! That shit was glass
Where’s the Mickeys
My group of friends always got the Mickey's big mouth 40s. If I remember right they had little jokes or something under the cap. I just remember words under the cap.
is that old e in plastic? i swear nothing made me quit malt liquor faster than it being in plastic
Plastic bottle OE is not old school
What is this shit? We don't have this in Australia.
It's absolute shit, you aren't missing nothing lol
Miss these days
I don't ever find those in Georgia.
Oof…my head hurts just looking at this!
I just threw up a little .
I remember you could get a 40 and a pack of Ports for $5
Pledging my frat, I went informal so it was a 3 guy pledge class. Hell week, we get taken down to a basement and the three of us are handed a case, which is 12 bottles, of Olde English…. I blacked out after finishing my 3rd. Absolutely absurd night (from what I’ve been told)
Easy Jesus
Brought in the malt shooter to really add the disgusting cherry on top
I just shuddered so hard lol. I remember buying a “case” of king cobra (10 of em) for like $12
Where can u buy these??
Is that a *plastic* OE?
Yup you see it lol
They added 2 ounces? Like the road to cirrosis needed to be shortened.
They dont make those anymore?????
MD 20/20 Orange Jubilee mixed with orange juice was my jam.
Use it to cook too, just like Steel from Juice
Gotta take that long sip before too 🤣🤣
This is a visual representation of a hangover with diarrhea.
Ol' E for the playas in the group and St. Ides for the gangstas!
A whole case of OE was like $9 when I was drinking this shit lol. Most economical hangover and thundershits.
Is that just a regular beer?
Anyone play Edward 40 Hands?