So, it wasn’t just me:
I found the stuff revolting, because it was like drinking cold tomato soup.
…It had great brand awareness when I was growing up, thanks to the constant barrage of ads featuring people who had, for some reason, forgotten to avail themselves of a V8, and remonstrated themselves by slamming their palms into their foreheads.
Not even this made me want some.
Me, neither.
It’s an acquired taste.
Not necessarily a good one.
But, put enough Tabasco sauce in it, and it’s pretty good. My V8-Tabasco ratio is about 1:4
V-8 makes a spicy variety also. Sprinkle some garlic or onion powder into it for more taste.
My V8-Tabasco ratio is about 1:4
That’s about the same ratio that we used to make C-rations edible back in the 1970s. Open a can, scrape off the congealed fat, stir in a lot of Tabasco and you have a hot meal!
V-8 Exists for making excellent bloody mary’s. Other than that, not so much.
2nding the Tabasco remark. Tabasco+Vodka helps too, but at 1:2-3
It is much like a very wet cold spaghetti sauce, without my favorite part, the meat.
If they could just put a half cup of ground beef in there it would be so much better 😀
V-8 with a half cup of browned ground beef? That is what Mom served us and my sib called it “Lots” as in wanting to eat “lots.” It really is pretty good that way.
I must confess that I like it, though I drink it very rarely now.
I didn’t like V8 for most of my life, but then I was on a transcontinental flight and when the stewardess started down the aisle with the beverage cart, I thought I’d get a beverage that I hate so much that I wouldn’t down it at once, but would sip at iit for an hour or two. So I got a V8 on ice. I did the same on several more flights for the same reason, and then I was hooked.
V-8 tastes great! And less filling! (than tomato juice)
I grew up on the stuff and loved it. Mom would cook a hamburger-noodle-and-vegetable stew with a V-8 base. It was a big family hit.
The downside is that it has loooaaads of sodium. And the sodium-free V-8 tastes Bloody Awful.
But there is nothing wrong with ingesting sodium, right? I mean being pro-sodium is being a proper Wingnut, right? That is until you knock back a couple of servings (c’mon, admit it, it is nothing like canned tomato juice, it is a canned juice product that is actually pretty good). And then you wake up at midnight. To use the facilities. And then you wake up at 2 AM. And you wake up at 3 AM. You get the idea. There is a diuretic downside to a slug-o-salt flavored with some carrot juice.
It sounds like stew ingredient that some people insist on using as beverage, just as Marmite is a rice/couscous/etc. seasoning that some people insist on using as a sandwich spread.
In any case, weren’t those commercials about car engines?
A pedantic nit: should have been “it wasn’t just I”. Predicate nominative.
The disembodied spirit in Microsoft Word is fine with either “I” or “me.”