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Aristus

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16. We just called it Jungle Juice.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 05:57 PM
Dec 28

Like the fabled 'stone soup', everyone brought what they had and threw it in. The base spirit was usually Everclear, which, IMO, is pretty nasty stuff. It took a lot of not-Everclear to dilute it down to drinkability. Mad Dog, Boone's Farms, Hawaiian Punch, Seven-Up, sliced citrus fruit, you name it.

For me, drinking was the name of the game. When the others got around to breaking out the cigarettes and the porn films, I blitzed. I wasn't on for any of that.

After all that, I usually took a taxi to any of the German bars where American soldiers didn't hang out. There was one place where the elderly bartender/owner would pat my cheek and call me "mein Sohn."

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