I can speak with some authority on this topic - but I won’t, beyond observing that Buckfast was the drink of choice for those nights when you were too under-the-weather to party, because its “medicinal” effects genuinely did get you through (and even on occasion cure a headcold or whatever, albeit at the cost of a monstrous hangover). This guy’s thoughts are pretty accurate:
The popularity of Buckfast then led to a temporary and woeful interest in Thunderbird in my hometown and home era, which… no. Just no.
