So evocative, Eric. We don’t have this stuff Downunder but if I ever go Full Bukowski, it’ll be my first purchase. Along with a ‘crumpled pack of Newports’, whatever they are.
I still have a well-aged bottle of T-bird, received as a prize some 25 years ago...
That’s ok, you have got “Goon”, which is not available here, but is the most awesome name ever for a drink which leaves you aching and penniless in unfamiliar surroundings when you come to.
Newports are menthol cigarettes.