Unrelatedly, but brought to mind when thinking of eejits, those of you in the UK should watch The Buckfast Code, on iPlayer. Why? Well, what drink has less than 2% of the alcohol market, yet is involved in about half of all alcohol-involved, violent crimes in Scotland? Oh, yeah, baby: Buckfast Tonic Wine.
It’s made by monks of evil, apparently: who else would manufacture a fortified wine with a whopping caffeine content? The green bottle – the UK version – has 37.5mg caffeine per 100ml – about the same quantity as a cola beverage which is 35mg per 375ml can. If you’re in Ireland? Your Bucky has 50% more caffeine than the UK version, at 55mg/100ml – more than is in a cup of tea. To put this differently: per volume, the green bottle has 4 times as much caffeine as Coca Cola, and the brown bottle has 6 times as much!
If you’re outside of the UK, you’ll not be able to watch, which is a real shame. We can’t figure out a way around this copy protection, either, so you’ll just have to trust us: it was worth watching.
Damn, should have had some in the brown bottle when we were in Ireland…wouldn’t have needed to sleep, so might have gotten to listen to more Irish trad music. But the crash the next day would have been brutal. Hmmm.