This might sound super fussy
and I'd be interested to see if others disagree, but I really don't think shot glasses were a thing till well into the nineties. You see everybody doing shots in the pubs these days, but it used to be shorts in a plain tumbler, and not that often, unless it was last orders.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:55,
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JD did start pushing in the mid eighties
I remember maybe '88 or '89 getting a JD tin with a couple of shot glasses and and a bottle in it for Christmas one year. Back to pubs though, and no, I don't remember shots being the thing they are now and it was maybe mid nineties when it took off?
In fact I think it was '94 I first went to a vodka bar in Glasgow which was of course all shot glasses, so I think you're about right.
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Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:09,
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thanks
I'm surprised about that JD marketing drive that early. The best marketing they had for me and my mates was that when Appetite for Destruction started gaining traction in about 88, released in 87 in the USA I think, the band never seemed to do a photo shoot without a bottle in hand.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:15,
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Yeah, superb product placement!
Reckon that was when it gained momentum, and of course Jim Beam and Southern Comfort jumped on the back of it.
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Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:21,
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