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Default Friday, June 4th, Dinner

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:10:40 -0700 (PDT), bruce bowser
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 7:56:57 PM UTC-4, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:56:00 -0600, Graham > wrote:
>> >On 2021-06-09 3:34 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> On 2021-06-09 5:16 p.m., wrote:
>> >>> On Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 3:37:21 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 6/9/2021 1:58 PM, wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I have several different variations of liquor in the house but no
>> >>>>> vodka.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> I keep vodka for guests that want it. It has very little flavor. I
>> >>>> keep gin, rum, Scotch, Bourbon for drinking.
>> >>>>
>> >>> I've got rum for when I make a rum cake at Christmas. I got sick on it
>> >>> once and can't really handle it now for a drink. I don't think there's
>> >>> anything that will make Scotch palpable to me. Triple sec, bourbon,
>> >>> and Kahluha share the shelf with the rum along with creme de cacao.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I never cared for rum when I was young because Coke seemed to be the
>> >> main mixer, and I never cared much for Coke. I later learned to enjoy
>> >> sipping amber and dark rum.
>> >>
>> >> I love Scotch. Straight, with just a tiny bit of water, or little ice.
>> >> Irish whiskey is pretty good too. My limited experience with Bourbon
>> >> has left me unimpressed. Maybe the premium stuff is worth trying.
>> >
>> >I've never liked hard liquor. The last whisky I drank was ~50 years ago
>> >when one of my profs treated a bunch of us to a straight malt, which is
>> >the closest I've come to tolerating the stuff. I'll drink gin suitably
>> >diluted with tonic water, but that's it.
>> >I drink wine most of the year and beer in the hotter summer months.

>> The only time I drink beer is a hot sunny day, then split half and
>> half with ginger beer, known as a Shandy.

>
>I'll have to try it out


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