re: "What does everyone drink when they tailgate for the SEC games?"

Ok, so in my experience there are two types of shine. Type 1 is shite people make to avoid taxes that tastes like the worst vodka/raw whiskey imaginable but almost certainly still costs more than cheap plastic bottle vodka. Type 2 though is made by people trying to make things not commonly available that don’t care about actual costs as long as they make a quality product. I’ve had blackberry shine from a guy just outside of Huntsville Alabama where blackberries were not for flavor they were the entire substrate. It was like essence of summer. It needed nothing but a chill and a cold glass and was divine. Also had some home made Raki from a guy from Muskogee Oklahoma that made me imagine being in Turkey or Greece it was so good, like ultimate licorice/mastic. Drinking that with pickled okra on his porch was like a tiny slice of heaven.

Me personally though, I don’t have a preferred tailgating drink. I actually kind of like southern comfort and coke as kitschy as it is but I don’t have a go to.

Edit: also, welcome to the SEC Oklahoma people. Texas people can suck eggs though.