The first time I was ever really drunk was on cider.  I can�t remember what age I was, but my mum and aunty gave me a glass of (I think) Woodpecker with my dinner one night and I felt all funny and had to go to bed early.  They both thought it was pretty funny but I didn�t � I just felt sick!  Then, the first time I got PROPERLY drunk, was when I was 16 or 17 and me and Dave had been drinking cider round someone�s house because our band practice had been called off.  The next day I puked while we were waiting for a train to take us to the Edinburgh festival then I puked all over my shoes while we were on the train, which should have been embarrassing but I was so ill, I didn�t care.  Cider has always seemed to be a big drink for me.  It�s always been around in some form or another.  It�s usually seen as a student type drink but I�ve liked it before, during and after my student days!  Exhibition cider used to be good.  It came in huge bottles (I think they were 3 litre bottles) and it was red in colour and very strong (the strongest you could get at the time � 1993/94 � which was around 8% or more, I believe.  Then they changed the law and made the strongest cider 7.5%).  I drank it a lot when I first left home  One night I was drinking it in front of the TV and passed out.  When I woke up, I took another swig from the bottle and realised that I must have pissed in it when I�d been asleep!  That kind of put me off it for a while..  Then I used to drink Blue Ocean, which came in glass bottles and was another strong, cheap cider.  The cans of it were called Planet, for some reason, even though it was exactly the same stuff.  That was another one of my favourite bedsit drinks, especially when mixed with Stephen�s potent home brew beer.  He�d bring bottles of it to my room and I�d happily drink it along with whatever cider or sherry I was drinking at the time.  Then we�d go out to the pub and get even more plastered.  I eventually stopped drinking the really strong cider, because it made me feel awful the next day a lot of the time.  The more �normal� brands like Strongbow and Old English are what I prefer these days, and Dry Blackthorn.  I find it all especially nice on tap.  Sometimes I get really sick of cider as a carry out and have to switch to something else, like wine.  Spirits are not really my �bag�, except in moderation.  They�re too mental.  My fave cider recently was Black Oak, which was only available in Victoria Wine and Haddows shops and it was really cheap � something like �1.70 for a 2 litre bottle.  They recently stopped selling it, though, and started selling this shit called Frampton�s instead.  I bought it a couple of times but it tasted disgusting and someone I know said it brought him out in a rash!  Whenever my stomach feels a bit dodgy, cider seems to settle it more than other drinks like lager, etc, which is strange because it�s very acidic.  Anyway, I like cider.  It�s not just for students and goths.
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