Who remembers Tango?

[stevec677]

Does anyone remember the alcoholic beverage "Tango"? It was a bright orange screwdriver flavored alcoholic drink that was consumed by skid row drunks and high school kids in the 1970's. I am trying to find a picture but all I can find is the soda. Do I have the name wrong?

ps. I was a "high school kid" hopefully I won't be a "skid row drunk".

 

[Ignacio]

You think it might have been some regional or local portmeantu of "Tang" (the astronauts drink sans ethanol) with a "O" to indicate the amount of glugs of vodka added to it to make a trailer trash panty peeler? I can only imagine how sad you and the date would have to be if it was a batch of Tang-o-o-o-o-o.

I do remember Mad Dog 20/20, Thunderbird, and a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry that sat in my parents fridge for about a decade. (They were Mateus drinkers in the 70s) And I remember Red Foxx talking about Ripple, but no Tango. I did find this picture of the 70's worst fortified wine offenders. Bleh!

 

[kaitsdad]

Oh God.

Boone's Farm Strawberry. Gag a maggot.

I have some very poor memories of the morning after with that crap. Ahhh....... high school.

 

[dcarver]

 

[majicmaker]

Nope! You got the name right. Let me share my Tango story with you. High School Senior Day 1971. The whole senior class chipped in and managed to put together about $500 for the liquor. We got about 75 cars together and headed out to Rockaway Beach NY. We gave the class treasurer the money and he was supposed to get the liquor. This was a geeky kid that probably hadn't had a drink in his life to that point. He walked into the closest liquor store he could find. The owner smelled a virgin and talked him into a good deal on $500 worth of Tango Screwdriver. Needless to say, IT WAS A LOT!!!!! We all got so freakin' hammered that we all got sick as dogs!! I don't remember leaving the beach. What we found out later that night was that the news reported a rash of Tango Screwdriver bottles clogging up all the coin buckets at the toll plazas from Rockaway Beach all the way to Queens where our High School was.

To this day, I get an ice cold chill running up my spine just hearing the word: Screwdriver! I don't even say the word when I need the tool. Lmfao!!! Ahhhhhhh.... Thanks for making me remember that! )

 

[Ignacio]

We got about 75 cars together and headed out to Rockaway Beach NY. We gave the class treasurer the money and he was supposed to get the liquor.

Sounds like it was regional given the OP is NY too. Kinda like the 70's when there was

in the PNW.

 

[majicmaker]

Yep! I guess it was a regional thing. It was Rot Gut Stuff. I also remember something called Frighting ****! It was Rot Gut Stuff too but, it was cheap!! )

 

[rushes]

Yep! I guess it was a regional thing. It was Rot Gut Stuff. I also remember something called Frighting ****! It was Rot Gut Stuff too but, it was cheap!! )

That's Fighting ****. That was my drink of choice in high school. Went great with Chips Ahoy cookies....

Ahh, the old daze.... lol

 

[Bugnatr]

Knew a guy in High School who drank Schlitz Malt liquor with chasers of MD 20/20.

He's dead now ;(

 

[majicmaker]

Yep! I guess it was a regional thing. It was Rot Gut Stuff. I also remember something called Frighting ****! It was Rot Gut Stuff too but, it was cheap!! )

That's Fighting ****. That was my drink of choice in high school. Went great with Chips Ahoy cookies....Ahh, the old daze.... lol

You're right rushes. That was a typo. The one thing I remember about Fighting **** was that it tasted pretty damn good. Until you tried to stand up! Lmao

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I did find this picture of the 70's worst fortified wine offenders. Bleh!

I remember drinking each and every one of those except for the Night Train. If I could add one to that pic because I was from the '80s not the '70s, it would be Brass Monkey. That stupid Beastie Boys song kicked off a craze for drinking that garbage in the mid '80s. Oh, the hangovers I had from the bottles in that pic. I bet if I had not drowned so many of my brain cells in that RotGut crap I would be a genius right now. At the time I thought I was doing my brain a favor. Only the Strong shall live! Little did I know I was killing them all...

 

[majicmaker]

Amen Redfish. It's amazing what we drank back then only because it was cheap Huh?! )

 

[dcarver]

Say what you want but Boone's Farm got me laid!

 

[marcusorelius]

Say what you want but Boone's Farm got me laid!

I think it got A LOT of people laid, it was the hip stuff in So Cal High School

 

[Ignacio]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="dcarver" data-cid="1084940" data-time="1375415285"><p>

Say what you want but Boone's Farm got me laid!</p></blockquote>

What was his name? Tango or Cash?

 

[BkerChuck]

I like the name "trailer trash panty peeler". My worst memories involve Southern Comfort. I vaguely remember urinating in the mop bucket at a gas station late one night thinking the utility closet was the men's room. To this day the smell of that stuff turns my stomach!

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I like the name "trailer trash panty peeler". My worst memories involve Southern Comfort. I vaguely remember urinating in the mop bucket at a gas station late one night thinking the utility closet was the men's room. To this day the smell of that stuff turns my stomach!

The smell of urine in a mop bucket should turn your stomach.

Oh, wait... Nevermind...

 

[Top_Speed1]

Tango...

 

[ionbeam]

Ol' speedo1 probably remembers and still lusts after a good old Genny Cream Ale. Made with the water from the Genesee River. I lived in Rochester and I've smelled seen the Genesee river...