V8 Vegetable Juice

SW MP15 · Jul 23, 2016

Wifey says I'm addicted? V8 low sodium vegetable juice. With a spash of Frank's Hot Sauce. I have to have at least a glass a day. I like it very very cold in nothing but a glass, glass. No plastic drinking glass for me.

I have tried most of they're fruit and vegetable drinks and they're not for me. I like the original flavor low sodium.

But I am strange. I like a glass of very very cold butter milk every now and then. I've been drinking butter milk since I was little. Maybe it's a southern thing? But I like it.

ralph7 · Jul 23, 2016

I drink the Spicy Hot V8.
Works good as a Bloody Mary with a few other fixin's, as well.

smitholdtimer · Jul 23, 2016

SW MP15

You aren't the only one who has a liking for this elixir although I prefer the "Spicy" version, it goes really well mixed with a very cool brew.

Rustyt1953 · Jul 23, 2016

My dad's idea of dessert was a Mason jar full of buttermilk and biscuits or cornbread. My FIL also eats it every day.

They both said it took them back to their youth in rural Kentucky.

I have tried to wrap my taste buds around it with no luck. I'm glad you enjoy it.

PS: ask Zag about his "Hot 'mater sauerkraut cocktail".

Rustyt1953 · Jul 23, 2016

Love in a glass:

THE PILGRIM · Jul 23, 2016

Hadn't had buttermilk with cornbread in a long time!
Just hearing about it makes me want some.
As far as I know, it is a Southern thing, mostly way out there,
Go to the boondocks, gas up, and keep going.

Rule3 · Jul 23, 2016

I like V8 low sodium on the rocks

I add my own red pepper or Tabasco. I like tomatoes but do not care for tomato juice or soup, Buttermilk is for pancakes.

kozmic · Jul 23, 2016

I like the spicy V8 in a Citron Vodka Bloody Mary. It needs Tabasco, celery stalk, bacon, shrimp and few green olives, ice and enough horse radish to make the straw stand up straight in the glass. The colder the better because the hotter the the better!

Texas Star · Jul 23, 2016

I like original V-8, but the cans were so often dented that I quit buying it. I guess I should get a big plastic bottle when I shop next.

I'm more into grape juice. I like the original Welch's variety.

BTW Lt. George Welch, a fighter pilot who shot down some Jap planes at Pearl Harbor, was a member of the grape juice family.

Grape juice is actually higher in Vit. C and antioxidants than orange juice, but I like that, too.

M E Morrison · Jul 23, 2016

SW MP15 said:
Wifey says I'm addicted? V8 low sodium vegetable juice. With a spash of Frank's Hot Sauce. I have to have at least a glass a day. I like it very very cold in nothing but a glass, glass. No plastic drinking glass for me.

I have tried most of they're fruit and vegetable drinks and they're not for me. I like the original flavor low sodium.

But I am strange. I like a glass of very very cold butter milk every now and then. I've been drinking butter milk since I was little. Maybe it's a southern thing? But I like it.

Have you ever tried "snap-e-tom"; which is pretty similar to your mix.

Marshwheeling · Jul 23, 2016

I go through a lot of V8. I'll drink it straight or seasoned, by itself or with beer or gin. I like Clamato, too, which they use instead of tomato juice in their micheladas. Snap-E-Tom is pretty good, but it got expensive compared to the competition. There is a lot of good hot sauce around.

Mike SC Hunter · Jul 23, 2016

My wife thinks I'm weird for drinking it.......I buy it by the case at Sam's and keep it in the refrigerator.........Love the stuff!!!!!

crazyphil · Jul 23, 2016

A southern thing must include southern Idaho. I love buttermilk.
I also like V8 Juice. A little good vodka and a few other ingredients
and it goes down quite well. It used to be a good hangover remedy
but I have outgrown hangovers.

SW MP15 · Jul 23, 2016

When I want a quick snack, I drink of a Glass of of V8. It will fill me up and tide me over for hours. And it doesn't seem to affect my A1c.

I also Love Butter Milk and corn bread. Nothing better than left over corn bread and cold cold glass of butter milk. My dad would take a tiny piece of corn bread and crumble it in a glass and pour butter milk on top and eat it with a spoon. And most of the time I grind a little fresh ground black pepper in my butter milk.

And butter milk is my main ingredient in my homemade corn bread. Along with yellow corn meal, eggs and some bacon drippings. Baked in my momma's iron skillet. Till crunchy. And sometimes to make it a little different, I'll add a little bit of creamed corn in my mixture. It's great with the corn kernels in it.

And nothing better than chicken marinated in buttermilk over night fried in seasoned flourin an iron skillet. Makes it crunchy, crispy and gives it that golden brown look.

Momma also made the BEST crackling corn bread on the planet, with pork cracklings. And it was delicious with butter milk. You very rarely see crackling corn bread any more.

I'm just a Ole Southern Boy, taught to cook and eat like my Grandmother taught my momma. But I never mastered their homemade butter milk biscuits? Or their homemade dumplings? My 80 year old aunt, still talks about my Momma's homemade neck bones and dumplings!!! They were good!

steamloco76 · Jul 23, 2016

The Mrs. and I both love low sodium V8. I make a heck of a Bloody Mary with it as the base instead of tomato juice.

Love a big, cold glass of cultured buttermilk with black pepper. Yum.

JayFramer · Jul 23, 2016

Franks has so much sodium, you aren't cutting back.

Try Tabasco instead.

chaparrito · Jul 23, 2016

Spicy Hot for me, every morning with breakfast. I tried the low salt version one time and ended up salting it. High blood pressure is not a thing for me so why go without? Sometimes I love it on the rocks half and half with a good fizzy yellow beer like Miller High Life and a slice of lemon. I use it to make other people Bloody Marys as well, or Bloody Marias, substituting Tequila for the Vodka. Not a vodka fan. It tastes like a hospital smells.
Real buttermilk. The whey left after churning butter left to curdle a bit is so much more refreshing than the carton stuff, which isn't "butter" milk at all but more like a skim milk yoghurt drink.

joeintexas · Jul 23, 2016

Not a big fan of v8 but you had me at buttermilk and cornbread. The wife's from Florida and she won't touch buttermilk, claims it's a Texas thing. I'm guessing folks in Alabama, Tennessee,Georgia, Louisiana and the Carolinas might disagree. She doesn't care for pinto beans either. Oh well...

SW MP15 · Jul 23, 2016

JayFramer said:
Franks has so much sodium, you aren't cutting back.

Try Tabasco instead.

I only add a tee tiny splash, not enough to make it hot. Just to add the tee tiny bit of the spicy flavor. It would give me heart burn for a week, if I loaded it up with Frank's.

But I do watch my sodium intake. I use fresh ground black pepper to season allot of my foods, that I use to put salt on. If I use salt, I use freshly ground sea salt. A doctor once told me to use sea salt. You get the same affect, but you use allot less? And supposedly it's better for you? I guess because you use much less?

But, I'm not a dietitian.

BUFF · Jul 23, 2016

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I used to love V-8 but suddenly lost my taste for it a few years ago. I've got several of the big cans and a bunch of the little bitty cans of it in the pantry cupboard that are so old they need to go in the trash.

Nowadays the only V-8 I like is under the hood of a fast car.

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