Runner
When I was at uni one night in the student union my mate won £100 on the fruit machine and being a ace mate and a generous chap decided that we would blow the lot that night on beer, drugs and curry.

We drank copiously in the union bar until we spotted a chap who could sell us an 1/8 of leb. We then wandered to a local park with a few carry outs and smoked a decent amount of said doobage. We then went to a curry house where we ate some fine curry washed down with a great deal Kingfisher. We were by this time as battered as a Scottish dinner and we hatched a cunning plan. We discussed this in hushed conspiratorial tones we would do a runner and then spend the saved cash on more drink and drugs.

We all staggered to our feet fumbled around for fags, wallet, coat blearily eyed the door which appeared to be filled with waiters.

"going somewhere lads?"

shamefaced we paid up and wobbled off home

We of course were being incredibly loud and pissed so our plans were easily overheard

What a bunch of twats :(
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 12:40, 12 replies)

Was this a very long time ago,
or has the price of beer, curry, and MASSIVE DRUGS crashed?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 12:54, closed)

a long time ago
pound(ish) a pint, £12 for the M.D. it was 'leb' too not skunk that alone put's it in 'the olden days'
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 13:27, closed)

And the word doobage dates the piece.
12 quid for Lebanese, I am going to say 1984?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:46, closed)

Your username makes this.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 12:54, closed)

was leb that black squidy shit?
/bad memory blog
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:42, closed)

I remember it
as crumbly dry brown coloured stuff. That was called red leb, which might be a different thing.

Used to get through a fair bit of that in the mid 80's. If I remember, £12 for an 8th sounds about right.
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 15:30, closed)

No, you're thinking of 'red lead' which was a metal primer.....
(Colonel Blink is now officially a pretentious prick, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 21:53, closed)

Red leb
was as you recollect, slightly crumbly and brown and turned up in canvas wrapped kilo sized blocks from, unsurpisingly, Lebanon. The civil war killed the trade although apparently it.s picked up again more recently.

The squidy black was popularly known as squidgy black and came in oversized soap bar looking blocks which were wrapped in cellophane which were usually red or gold in my era. Originated in India/Pakistan or Afghanistan and called red or gold seal. Stronger than Lebanese.

The other common type was the slate like rocky, from Morocco which was the lowest potency and not highly regarded.

Once in a blue moon Brown Nepalese temple balls would show up and were very good indeed.
(unclestinky, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 21:58, closed)

ah, yes.
i think what you're describing as squidgy black we knew simply as soap bar and what you knew as rocky, i knew as slate
i think the squdgy black stuff was known as afghan black. no idea where it was from though
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 22:37, closed)

"battered as a scottish dinner"
nice
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 17:42, closed)

leb
My first purchase of leb in 84-85 ? was £8 an eighth, oh happy days.
(andycrass loves two hats on, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 22:03, closed)

A bang
on the head was more effective than Leb but it fluffed up and went a long way, which people seemed to like. Don't get me wrong you can get decent Leb in Dam but never over here.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 6 Jul 2012, 17:12, closed)