yo papasan

[snuffy106]

yo papasan , brang me , goldens or suntory in a tin canteen cup, if that cup aint turned green inside it by the time I finish dranking it then ya wiskey been watered down for the nasans

[Cpl Miller]

Grab a rack, and foot locker, inspection starts in one hour. ha

[Marine1955]

yo papasan , brang me , Golden's or suntory in a tin canteen cup, if that cup ain't turned green inside it by the time I finish dranking it then ya whiskey been watered down for the nasans
damn i drank my share of japan's finest and yuk it still was like drinking piss!!! but like the true hard charger i was i never let a nasty beer get me down... one of my best friends in naha japan was a Japanese captain who would call me up and say billsan you want to go out tonight?? and then the party was on... we went to the finest bars in all of naha and drank there Scott.. it was nasty but you learn to drink thats the marine corps way you adapt and over come..one day i want to go back there.. the land of the risen sun

[snuffy106]

Why aint no body brung up ACADAMA ?

[Marine1955]

oh god you would bring that stuff up. at iwakuni,god just thinking about it makes me sick if it's the same sh*t that tasted like black liquorish. i tried to drink it, i got three shots down got up to hit the head and damn i hit my head. i did a face plant right there i front of god and everyone. they pick me up and pored me into a cab and papa san drove me to the barrack our metal huts at the back gate and let me out and i crawled in a military manner to my rack and passed out. gee i wish i could go again and have more fun like that.

[GunnySan]

AKADAMA ?? They still make that 'wine' ? I tasted that poison when I was stationed in Japan in '53-54. That is, Japan, not Okinawa. That was not part of Japan at the time.

[Marine1955]

AKADAMA ?? They still make that 'wine' ? I tasted that poison when I was stationed in Japan in '53-54. That is, Japan, not Okinawa. That was not part of Japan at the time.

I KNOW i was in iwakuni japan and god the smell of black liquorish makes me sick now. my mother rest her sole would be ashamed of me for fallen face first from three drinks where're Irish you know, we like to srink some..

[snuffy106]

Yo there you lovers of C Rat eggs an ham , acadama was just wine. that stuff that tasted like licorice was called deabsence or something like that. now that stuff was a wine with a opium base 2 shots or so an ya couldnt walk talk or nothing . and ya would flunk any drug test they popped on ya.

[Cpl Miller]

my first night out in the ville on the rock got me drinking SLOW GIN. Drank so much of that shit over the years I still can't stand the smell of the stuff.
In my day we called it scambled eggs and MF cause you couldn't tell what the hell was in them cans of C-Rats. Ha

[LarSim]

my first night out in the ville on the rock got me drinking SLOW GIN.

Oh god, Miller you have conjured up for me some evil memories. That would be Sloe Gin, right? A buddy of mine introduced me to it one night on Okinawa. We sat on a rock wall overlooking Futema and the East China Sea and put away a bottle a piece.

We felt so good, and the night was so fine we opted for another bottle.

That's where I learned to drink alcohol: i.e., that's when I learned that just because the first bottle makes you feel good and tastes good, it does not mean the second will double the experience. Quite the contrary.

Spent that evening worshiping at the Porcelain Throne, upchucking Sloe Gin.

Can't stand even the smell of it, even to this day.

- LarSim :cool:

[Marine1955]

Yo there you lovers of C Rat eggs an ham , acadama was just wine. that stuff that tasted like licorice was called deabsence or something like that. now that stuff was a wine with a opium base 2 shots or so an ya couldn't walk talk or nothing . and ya would flunk any drug test they popped on ya.

Oh god i remember that sh*t i drank three shots one night and stood up to go to the head and planted face first on the deck! they picked me up pour me into a cab and papa san took me to the our quansit huts and let me out and i crawled to my rack and passed out and was hungover for the next hole day. now i can't even smell black liquorish without getting sick.. but i love the time over there and would do it again .....Semper Fi

[Cpl Miller]

Damn stuff was sweet to a young Marines taste buds, problem being as you said after the second time around all you wanted to do was get that stuff out of your system. My experience with drinking in high school was to take a 6 pack of Colt45 into the local movie house and get shit faced.

On the rock I finally started to drink screw drivers cause they were sweet but didn't give you that feeling of heading to the head for a LOOOOONG visit.

God what memories..... LOL

[snuffy106]

The best Drinkin on the rock was at the Em club at camp Hansen dime mixed drinks , then we go off on float an come back -- they turned the E M club into a USO , had stuff like basket weaving classes . Imagine hard charging 4th marines grunts weaving baskets. so it was back to Goldens , suntory , acadama, Orion an SLOE GIN better than weaving friggin baskets.

[DocWilley]

I got drunk a bunch at the e-club at Hansen.drank san miguel out the ass in olongapo and lots of 1 dalla rum and cokes in Kinville,but the worst i ever had was sojo in Korea.man did that stuff get us in trouble on an R&R in Seoul.

[caltrap]

The best Drinkin on the rock was at the Em club at camp Hansen dime mixed drinks , then we go off on float an come back -- they turned the E M club into a USO , had stuff like basket weaving classes . Imagine hard charging 4th marines grunts weaving baskets. so it was back to Goldens , suntory , acadama, Orion an SLOE GIN better than weaving friggin baskets.

We had a pretty good slopchute over at Camp Hague,12 th Marines in
57/58.

[tripledog]

Take two bottles of Asahi beer, one bottle of the cheap (suntory was the highest, and tory was the cheapest) Asahi cost 10 cents a bottle, tory cost 40 cents a bottle), pour em in the lazy susan at the club and you could party.

But THEN we got to Korea and that JP5 and bananna oil would really throw you down.

[Cpl Miller]

what I had for dinner two nights ago but remember what happen from 1964 through 1970 like it was yesterday....WHY IS THAT????? hehehehehehe

In closing let me say this....POWDERED EGGS ROCK!!

[3522]

Yo there you lovers of C Rat eggs an ham , acadama was just wine. that stuff that tasted like licorice was called deabsence or something like that. now that stuff was a wine with a opium base 2 shots or so an ya couldnt walk talk or nothing . and ya would flunk any drug test they popped on ya.

I had an "experience" with the stuff, also, I seem to remember the bottle said something de Absinthe. Kicked my ass worse than anything before or since! I'm of German and Irish heritage, and I can drink, but I won't forget that stuff! This was in Iwakuni, BTW.

[govern4]

Yo there you lovers of C Rat eggs an ham , acadama was just wine. that stuff that tasted like licorice was called deabsence or something like that. now that stuff was a wine with a opium base 2 shots or so an ya couldnt walk talk or nothing . and ya would flunk any drug test they popped on ya.

:GI9:that is what I remember,black licorice tasting stuff was called deabsence ,but when mixed with sprite and cherry lickour it made my favorite mixed drink the purple haze.:GI4:but we were forbitten to drink it(Marine Rules opium is bad):GI4:

[3522]

we were forbitten to drink it(Marine Rules opium is bad):GI4:

Oops! Wait, we were forbidden to drink in the barracks, too. Double oops!

[papatazmatt]

Any one remember Orion Beer if you could drink that you could drink anything.:GI9:

[Cpl Miller]

anyone from the rock forget Orion Beer, was right up there with SLOW GIN..yuk yuk

[wlkin]

Went TDY to Hanson back in the early 60's. Wandered up to the club and was invited to sit down at a table that had a couple of empty chairs. The kid that invited up started getting louder and louder. Soon the club manager showed up and told him to quiet down or he would have him thrown out. Kid said he just came back for 14 mission in Vietnam (Where?). This was before it was well known. He said his job was demo and he would go in and blow up down helicopters and such. Don't know if that is really what he did, but this was 61 or 62. Later the band was taking requests, so we requested "Calif, here we come". Club Manager said he would not happen, because a riot would break out. When we left, some Marine was waiting for me outside the door. He dropped his packages and wanted to fight, because I was talking to his favorite waitress. I declined and we made our way back to the barracks.

wlkin

[wlkin]

One more while I am hogging the floor. While TDY at Hansen, a friend said he wanted to go up to Swab to visit a friend. He was in 3rd Recon before he came to us. Arrived at Swab to find out his friend was the Ham Radio Operator, so we spent the evening in his air conditioned shack while he patched phone calls to base. He placed a call to the "Hill Top Club" for some refreshments and a Staff NCO showed up with a bottle of Seagrams for us. Drank part of that while he finished up the patches. He asked if we wanted to go to town. We mentioned the curfew, but he said don't worry. We walked up to the Hill Top Club and arrived just as the Okinawan band was loading up to go downtown. We jumped into the back with them and off we went. Remember someone entering the bar and yelling there was a fight down the street. Everyone but me, my friend and out escort headed out to join it. Finally had to go back to base. Was not sure how we were going to get in the gate as the curfew was still on. He talked to the guard at the gate and we were waved in without problem.

wlkin

[Easyrider]

Yo there you lovers of C Rat eggs an ham , acadama was just wine. that stuff that tasted like licorice was called deabsence or something like that. now that stuff was a wine with a opium base 2 shots or so an ya couldnt walk talk or nothing . and ya would flunk any drug test they popped on ya.

When I was a Newbie in Iwakuni in 1978, Someone bought me a couple of shots of Absinthes as a Joke.
I went Totally Ape-shit Crazy and tore the bar apart. Woke up in an Ally the next day and got nabbed by Main-Gate MP's as I was heading back to base.
I explained what happened as best I could but couldn't remember a whole lot.
Anyway I ended up with a Capt's mast (Got Shit Details)and ended up paying for Mama-san's Bar that I trashed. She told me never to come Back after I apologized.
Oh well..You Live and Learn..:GI10:

[pisc69]

Absinthe? crap that poison is made from Wormwood fer gawds sake - lot of countries banned it cause people go homicidal whack job looney from drinking it - damn witches brew not liquor

"Ba Moui Ba"
that's "33 Beer" - proof - not how many you could drink
battery acid in a brown bottle and everyone called it Bomb Me Bomb

[cannoncocker]

ACADAMA & Sun Torres was some of the worse rotgut brewed. Saki also.
We were warned that the Corps had this mess annualized and was found to contain urine, traces of lead and other impurities that I can't remember.
Just a sniff of that stuff was enough to cause my stomach to churn.
The Jap beer was mighty fine, some of the best.
I put away eight quarts one day and was still standing, not very well, but still standing.
HAW! I remember at Camp Hague the LUKES were digging a ditch by our roads and about half the Marine population had to walk across a makeshift bridge at least four foot wide.
On payday nights and a few days after it never failed, drunken Marines would try to maneuver across this bridge and several would fall off into the ditch and some were just to drunk to get out and gave up and went to sleep there.
It was always muddy and they would report in, chock full of mud, vomit and other disgusting oders following them.
BTW, it wasn't all that easy to walk a straight line across a four foot wide bridge.
Been there, done it.:o