Post #169083 by teeny wahine on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 10:21 PM

Here's a quote from a website I found about swipe. The link for the page is below.

"The only way to get hold of liquor was to distil it oneself, James Jones recalled:
...'raisin jack' or... 'swipe', which was a Hawaian word for bootleg liquor... In my outfit we got blind drunk every chance we got... We made our 'swipe' by stealing a five-gallon tin of canned peaches or plums or pineapple from the nearest ration dump, and putting a double handful of sugar in it to help it ferment, then leaving it out in the sun in the jungle... It was the most awful stuff to drink, sickly sweet and smelling very raunchy, but if you could get enough of it down and keep it down, it carried a wonderful wallop.'
Another favorite for fermentation was coconut milk, and Australian troops in the Pacific also used this type of liquor, generally known as 'jungle juice', in large quantities. Sometimes even cruder methods were used. James Jones remembered a PX on Guadalcanal in which only two items were left for the front-line troops, Barbasol shaving cream and Aqua Velva aftershave. The Barbasol remained on the shelves, but the Aqua Velva went like hotcakes. 'Mixed with canned grapefruit juice... the shaving lotion did not taste at all. Grapefruit juice seemed to cut all the perfume out of it. It made a drink rather like a Tom Collins. Everyone loved it.' "(p.257-258)"
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