WHETHER YOU GREW UP IN GORTON or spend your student days in Salford, there’s a good chance that if you spent your formative years in and around Manchester, your hardened drinking habits may have been influenced by some of the ingredients in this potent cocktail of quintessentially Mancunian drinking experiences…
1. Your first taste of drunkenness was in a park near your mates’ house with a 2-litre bottle of Diamond White or other cheap fizzy cider bought with a fake ID from Costcutters. You spend the night chundering over the swings and resolve never to drink again. You stick to this promise for around 72 hours.