shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,748
|
Post by shaxper on Jun 17, 2014 20:36:57 GMT -5
I see what you did there.
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2014 21:15:10 GMT -5
I like the darker beers like Guinness, Newcastle, the Samuel Smith line or Old Rasputin.
My wife likes wine and I've grown more into it, especially at restaurants.
Spirits, mostly vodka or Canadian blends, hit the spot too.
For a truly refreshing summer thirst quencher, mix 50 / 50 Guinness and tart lemonade to make Shandy. Ginger beer is awesome too.
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 17, 2014 21:20:42 GMT -5
I never drink ...wine. Or anything else that has alcohol in it. Me either... I've never really got alcohol. Tried it, hated it. Makes you do silly things... can make you die. I don't do coffee, either.. it's terrible. My caffeine fix is handled quite nicely with Mountain Dew. I'll drink some tea, but rarely.
|
|
|
Post by Pharozonk on Jun 17, 2014 21:27:43 GMT -5
All this drink talk made me remember something I was pondering the other day: Does anyone else like Big Red? Everyone else I talk to hates it but me.
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 21:42:25 GMT -5
My ban at CBR is over...let's see how long they'll let me stay after my post criticizing my ban. I honestly don't mind risking another ban after how bad it's gotten there. Still, at least now I know not to respond to mod PMs...
|
|
|
Post by Jasoomian on Jun 17, 2014 21:51:19 GMT -5
Mountain Dew... looks like urine and tastes like it too. Besides which, all the corn syrup and other chemicals? Pass.
I take my coffee with cinnamon and stevia. Yum.
But lately I've been getting more into tea. Specifically yerba mate', which has just as much caffeine as coffee but by some magical property doesn't leave you all jittery. I particularly like the mate' teabags they sell at Whole Foods, which are blended with green tea, peppermint, and a hint of licorice. I've been drinking it with lemon juice and some raw honey a beekeeper friend of my sent me. Delicious.
I am struggling right now to open a bottle of merlot... it's one of those non-cork corks, and this little keychain corkscrew is just pulling out rubber from the center of the cork, leaving the rest in there. If I can get this thing open, I will pour a little glass, and pour a little on some chicken tenders (along with sea salt, cayenne, butter, garlic) and throw them in the oven....
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 22:45:16 GMT -5
Hockey is probably somewhat interesting if you're from the Frozen North. I'm not. The fact that the players generally look like slack-jawed, slope-browed morons, given their mullets & gaps where their teeth should be, should be embraced in the Deep South, I suppose. Hockey is a bit of a cultural thing, in part, I think, because it's a sport you really need to see in person, if not play yourself, to appreciate. It's been said that baseball was the perfect sport for radio, while football is the perfect sport for television, which explains their respective decline and rise. Hockey isn't well suited for either medium, but it's far better in person, and better in person than either baseball or football. At the risk of loosing my Canadian membership card, Hockey does no more for me than any other sport. Sports can be fun to play, but I have zero interest in watching strangers play for fortunes. At the last hockey game I went to (won tickets at the place I was working at the time and took friends who do give a rats ass about hockey), I brought a book.
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 22:51:38 GMT -5
If you have to have the beauty and poetry of baseball explained to you, you're never going to get it anyway. Cei-U! I summon the stats-free enjoyment! I liked the X-Files episode in which the alien calls it "perfect but useless", like a flower. I still have no interest in it though.
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 22:51:55 GMT -5
If you have to have the beauty and poetry of baseball explained to you, you're never going to get it anyway. And this from a fan who couldn't tell an ERA from an IRA. Cei-U! I summon the stats-free enjoyment! Thank you. "Baseball is only boring to the boring." Wish I knew who first said that, because it is true. Boring, eh? I've been called worse...
|
|
|
Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2014 23:00:37 GMT -5
All this drink talk made me remember something I was pondering the other day: Does anyone else like Big Red? Everyone else I talk to hates it but me. The family business was liquor stores and soda distribution, including Big Red, Dr Pepper, 7-Up, Squirt, A&W, Crush, Nehi, Sun Drop, Gatorade, Lipton, Sun-Glo juices, and Like and RC Cola ! i still love them, but don't drink them except rarely. Those glass bottles and syrup tanks broke my back. I now have double fusion back surgery and titanium rods and screws and my sciatica is extreme. Had CATscan Monday and a follow up with my surgeon Friday. I was was young, strong, and happy to help grow the business, but did too much, incorrectly, and now pay a terrible price of pain, but getting there was a lot of fun energy.
|
|
|
Post by dupersuper on Jun 17, 2014 23:10:10 GMT -5
My favourite beer is root (never been a drinker), but even that I can't have too much of now (borderline diabetic).
|
|
|
Post by Jasoomian on Jun 17, 2014 23:22:39 GMT -5
Many flowers provide essential nutrients.
|
|
|
Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 17, 2014 23:37:07 GMT -5
Many flowers provide essential nutrients. Understood. The package will be delivered at the specified time. I mean...fish is not only a good source of protein, but also provides essential Omega 3's.
|
|
|
Post by the4thpip on Jun 18, 2014 4:53:39 GMT -5
I've never really gotten the idea of acquiring a taste. "Well, I know this tastes like garbage, but if you keep drinking it anyway, eventually you'll get used to how terrible it is." Um. Why would I want to do that? I get it when it is something healthy, like green tea. I used to kind of drink it out of principle but actually like it now.
|
|
ironchimp
Full Member
Simian Overlord
Posts: 456
|
Post by ironchimp on Jun 18, 2014 6:26:50 GMT -5
But lately I've been getting more into tea. Specifically yerba mate', which has just as much caffeine as coffee but by some magical property doesn't leave you all jittery. I particularly like the mate' teabags they sell at Whole Foods, which are blended with green tea, peppermint, and a hint of licorice. I've been drinking it with lemon juice and some raw honey a beekeeper friend of my sent me. Delicious. That sounds really nice - it's hot here and i am on a tea kick at the minute.
|
|