My college mixed drink of choice — the Alabama Slammer — featured Southern Comfort. It was sticky-sweet and really easy to drink too many really quickly.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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Steph L. - Feb 08, 2023 1:51:33 pm PST #20518 of 30000
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-t - Feb 08, 2023 1:54:46 pm PST #20519 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Comfort Sours were my go to drink for a while in college.
I will admit, I first started drinking Southern Comfort because of Janis Joplin and I was drinking Wild Turkey for a while because of Thelma and Louise. I don't know how much my taste in alcohol was ever really driven by, well, taste.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2023 1:57:53 pm PST #20520 of 30000
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Wild Turkey 101 is good stuff. Before my brother got sober, he gave me a bottle of Wild Turkey 101 for Christmas one year. His wife makes pottery, and she gave me a pottery jug. My brother said the Wild Turkey tastes better if you keep it in a pottery jug. I honestly can't tell the difference between Wild Turkey in a bottle and Wild Turkey in a jug, but I feel like both a hipster and a hillbilly keeping my booze in a pottery jug with a cork.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2023 2:01:31 pm PST #20521 of 30000
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I've also learned from my present-day (and sober) brother that there are some good nonalcoholic liquor alternatives -- like bourbon, gin, etc. -- that actually taste like the real thing. He said he's made a damn fine margarita with nonalcoholic tequila, and he's found one nonalcoholic bourbon that's really good on the rocks, no mixer needed.
I'm going to take his word for it, and just be glad he found something he can drink without it making him relapse again.
-t - Feb 08, 2023 2:45:33 pm PST #20522 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I picked up lunch at a taqueria a while back where they talked me into getting a margarita to go with it that was made with nonalcoholic tequila. I actually did not believe them that it was nonalcoholic because I had never heard of such a thing, I saved it in the freezer until after work, but it tasted ok. FWTW
NoiseDesign - Feb 08, 2023 3:17:31 pm PST #20523 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Undergrad was a lot of vodka drinks. It was also the early 90s. By grad school I'd moved up to single malt scotch. Now it is whisk(e)y in all of the wonderful varieties as my current selection of about 120ish bottles will prove.
Sheryl - Feb 08, 2023 3:57:49 pm PST #20524 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I don't like tasting the alcohol in my drinks, which why, when I do indulge, I tend to get sweet mixed drinks.(Fuzzy Navels were my go to drink in my 20s)
JZ - Feb 08, 2023 4:25:14 pm PST #20525 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Could your brother recommend a good faux gin, Teppy? I do miss my martinis.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2023 4:41:14 pm PST #20526 of 30000
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Could your brother recommend a good faux gin, Teppy? I do miss my martinis.
I'll ask him -- I bet he's tried some.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2023 4:57:45 pm PST #20527 of 30000
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You ask, and my brother delivers: he says the brand Monday is the best nonalcoholic gin for martinis.