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Hello, and welcome to the pulp library, a bibliothèque of bemusement! You can find my previous threads here: threadreaderapp.com/user/Pul…
Adventures in Babysitting, by Elizabeth Faucher. Scholastic Books, 1987.
Faucher did a number of movie and TV tie-in novels, including two Charles In Charge books, the Addams Family and White Fang 2.
For a more relaxed soirée you might plump for Babycham. A sparkling pear cider initially popular in agricultural circles, this was the first alcohol advertised on British commercial TV.
It was marketed as a Champagne style celebratory drink in individual bottles with an Alpine chamois on the label. And under the licensing laws you could drink it at age 16 in a pub, as long as you were having a meal and the landlord didn't object.
The 1980s saw the next big thing in sophisticated drinking: Le Piat d'Or. Marketed as the sophisticated starting point for people new to wine, it rapidly became Britain's best selling wine brand.
The French connection was a bit of a poisson d'Avril, as the brand was little known in France. But it did give dads an excuse to joke 'bring up the Piat!' at the dinner table, to much bemusement from their children.
Blue Nun Liebfraumilch. Insanely popular, partly due to relentless advertising. If you only had wine at Christmas it was probably this.
It was marketed as the wine you could drink through all courses: prawn cocktail, duck à l'orange, Black Forest gateaux. It all goes with Blue Nun!
Has anything genuinely new happened to Excel in the last 30 years? Anything?? I mean things people want, not weird things nobody ever uses.
'Lion tamer' is not hyphenated unless it is used as a compound modifier. You'd think the CIA* would know that.
(*Cigar Institute of America)
