I relate to all these recollections, from 1st rum & Coke slurpee in a backseat taking too many suburban Wpgc corners to 1 heartbroken litre of gin on 25th bday in Van - made hiking in BC juniper-filled mountains nauseating for 2 years. I later forgot what lessons these experiences should've taught.
Well, us black folks who are out here being called out of our names by ELOTUS (Elected Lucifer of the United States) and his supporters on the regular might need some Uncle Nearest to help from cussing a bunch of people out. We’re tired of paying for others’ stupidity and/or racist, sexist decisions
Already my state is reacting to the tariffs. Several distilleries are laying off people or closing up shop. Governor Beshear warned about going through with the tariffs.
yeah, trump is deliberately hurting a lot of people all over north america. the cost increases themselves will hurt a lot US consumers and businesses (including me).
and the inevitable and fully justified retaliatory tariffs will hurt more.
We've all been there. I learned the painful lesson at age 19 that, if the only thing left on the bar at the end of Winter Carnival is a half bottle of gin, do not say "hell, yeah!" when your friend suggests gin shots to finish off the bottle. It's been nearly 40 years and gin & I still don't speak.
I do not care about anything at this point- how the F did you let them trade Luka???? So I credibly angry and hurt as a 25 + years Mavs fan. This is a gut punch. So devastating
Way back in Twitter days I had Goldie Hawn answer me when I gave her a compliment because I just love and adore her. I had another Hollywood celebrity answer me too and I can’t think of his name 😂 but it was thrilling, even though it probably wasn’t them but someone that worked for them.
Bartles and Jaymes was sneaky as hell - you'd knock back a couple of those, you wouldn't realize you were getting absolutely fucked up until the 4th bottle and then you couldn't even stand up
The original Cali Coolers had that...pulp...floating in them and when you were throwing up after midway through the 4th bottle, you are reminded texturally of that fact.
You bastard, you LITERALLY just made me vurp reading this 🤣
On a similar note, I got absolutely hammered with a friend one night in 1990 but I was also hungry so we stopped at Taco Bell and I wolfed down six tacos. They weren't in me long enough to lose their taste when they came back up 🤣🤣🤣
Complete blackout, still to this day, after my drink was spiked at a family dinner by BIL's invited guest. Not a second of memory has returned. Tequila hasn't done me that dirty.
Didn't know why it happened until 2 years later at another Xmas dinner at ILs. & same person tells 'funniest story about that'. Which turned into 1 hour chaos event re: angry, near violence, more drinking & no apology from him to me. Great times! #TrustNoOne not even yourself.
TBF, just one shot of that distilled horse piss was enough to put me off it forever. Jim Beam ain't much better.
My heritage steers me towards Scotch whiskey, but I've tried the Irish and Canadian equivalents, and they are ALL so much better than those two 'bourbons'.
Wild Turkey on NYE. Never, ever again. No Jack either. Cannot stand that oak finish. We make some fine whiskey in KC and when all this shit is over I highly recommend a bottle of Reiger's. KC is a Blue oasis in a red desert. https://www.jriegerco.com/our-spirits/kcwhiskey
Kalimotxo, one of the most popular, cheap drinks in the Basque Country. While we’re not in speaking terms, I encourage you to try it: Mix equal parts of cheap red wine and Coke, add ice, enjoy.
15 shots of tequila in 15 min in a drinking contest, puking immediately, passed out for hours immediately and then alcohol poisoning for a week after will put you off tequila.
Sounds like some consequences I doled out. No teenager was hurt during the meting of consequences. It helps to be a teacher with classroom down the hall from that of instructor who assigned important experiential earning paper due 2 days after infraction.
The first time I got “drunk” was my mom’s Canadian Mist. The first time I got DRUNK was cherry vodka during a Longaberger Basket party. It got me through it…and then some. That was 30 years ago and I haven’t had a drop of cherry vodka since. Or cherry cough medicine or any cherry-flavored liquid.
Mine is the drink, Rusty Nail, scotch and Drambuie. I drank too many winning a stupid drinking contest while in college. Can’t even smell scotch without my stomach flipping.
I'm German and growing up in the 70s, Jägermeister was considered "old man booze" or even a typical alcoholics' drink. I never understood why/how the rebranding took hold – I can't shake those associations. (That said, Jack Daniels is pretty terrible, too. We'd just graduated high school, so ...)
It was Jack Daniels for me at age 18 – it took more than 20 years and a British friend to reintroduce me to *any* kind of whisky. I can just about tolerate a small measure of single malt nowadays but much prefer rum or aged (mild) tequila, or even brandy sometimes.
Bushmills
GRANTED ITS LICENSE TO DISTILL IN 1608.
BUSHMILLS IS THE OLDEST LICENSED WHISKEY DISTILLERY IN THE WORLD. OUR SIGNATURE TRISH WHISKEY IS AGED IN SEASONED BOURBON
BARRELS AND OLOROSO SHERRY CASKS, CREATING THE UNMISTAKABLE TASTE OF IRELAND'S MOST CLASSIC WHISKEY.
So funny yours is one of the first comments I saw and SAME! Haven’t had it since that one, awful night in 1997. Woke up in bathroom floor surrounded by saltines my friends tried to feed me. I had no memory of getting there.
I came here to say this. Starry Nights = Goldschlager & Jagermeister. I was 22, 115 lbs, and tried to outdrink 3 guys averaging 250lbs. Haven't touched it since. I'm 43.
I still don't get the concept (boozy mouthwash?!) but have been known to accept the stuff if offered to me for free after a couple of pints in the pub when my taste buds had already given up for the night.
He's not the first one. I won't go near it 40+ years later.
My Russian ex-wife's family told me drinking champagne and shots of vodka at the dinner table is called Northern Shine. What they didn't tell me is Northern Shine leads to a Southern Hurl.
Local distilleries and brewers are the way to go. You can personally know the distillers and brewers and what they stand for, you can support your local economy, and you can discover some delicious beverages.
Bacardi 151 here. Ate the finish off my mom's dining table when I hurled.
Message not clear enough because a few years later, it happened again to a police car's hood. Different cocktail. Still rum, tho. Cop car belonged to the bouncer at the club. He wasn't in it.
You kids are funny. Y'all only have 1 liquor that haunts you? I can't even go to the liquor store cuz it's like walking through a graveyard, at night, alone...
Jim Bean is poison. The smell triggers my gag reflex. 🤪 this comes from 4 teen girls passing a bottle while horseback riding. Horse took me back to stables and threw me over a car.
This definitely. I bought a small bottle of fireball whiskey before christmas because I used to like it. I realised when I got home, im not in my 20s anymore, and I dont really like whiskey.
It's still unopened in the fridge. 🤷
goldschlager and jagermeister shots at a friend's bday. nearly humiliated myself on the bus because i didn't have the sober sense to go to the bathroom first. haven't touched that shit in over 10 years.
Pepe Lopez tequila here. Locked myself in the only bathroom at a house party and passed out face-down next to the toilet, didn't come to until about 4 am.
31 years later, I *still* cannot stand the taste of tequila.
Mad respect to Mr. Eby for this insanely relatable comment. 😂
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Sorry, not sorry.
Tequila and I had to end our friendship 30 years ago.
Beware.
“Jack Daniels Night”
but all of the above are coming off the shelves
(not sure why they've missed so many KY bourbons in the photos, I've seen)
and the inevitable and fully justified retaliatory tariffs will hurt more.
(Mine is peppermint schnapps — we were desperate 🙄)
Friends don't let friends import such beverages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort
Bartles and Jaymes was sneaky as hell - you'd knock back a couple of those, you wouldn't realize you were getting absolutely fucked up until the 4th bottle and then you couldn't even stand up
On a similar note, I got absolutely hammered with a friend one night in 1990 but I was also hungry so we stopped at Taco Bell and I wolfed down six tacos. They weren't in me long enough to lose their taste when they came back up 🤣🤣🤣
I was not a great soldier, but I was ideal for the party situation that developed after the Berlin wall came down.
Germany ALMOST ran out of bier. Almost.
My heritage steers me towards Scotch whiskey, but I've tried the Irish and Canadian equivalents, and they are ALL so much better than those two 'bourbons'.
https://www.jriegerco.com/our-spirits/kcwhiskey
Or so I've heard.
GRANTED ITS LICENSE TO DISTILL IN 1608.
BUSHMILLS IS THE OLDEST LICENSED WHISKEY DISTILLERY IN THE WORLD. OUR SIGNATURE TRISH WHISKEY IS AGED IN SEASONED BOURBON
BARRELS AND OLOROSO SHERRY CASKS, CREATING THE UNMISTAKABLE TASTE OF IRELAND'S MOST CLASSIC WHISKEY.
Not a single malt!
#BoozeFree13Years
40 years later…still gag if I smell it. 😂
My Russian ex-wife's family told me drinking champagne and shots of vodka at the dinner table is called Northern Shine. What they didn't tell me is Northern Shine leads to a Southern Hurl.
Message not clear enough because a few years later, it happened again to a police car's hood. Different cocktail. Still rum, tho. Cop car belonged to the bouncer at the club. He wasn't in it.
And I'm not a fighter.
😂
It's still unopened in the fridge. 🤷
Liquid Cocaine bad...
*shudders*
31 years later, I *still* cannot stand the taste of tequila.
Mad respect to Mr. Eby for this insanely relatable comment. 😂