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May. 31st, 2014 01:32 amIn my slow-moving but ongoing attempt to find some kind of alcohol I like (so far: margaritas, very fruity cocktails, and tequila shots work) I bought a bottle of hard cider a week or so ago and finally got around to drinking it tonight -- uh, I can't remember the brand now, but I'll recognize the label, since it was a British import. Samuel something. Sadly that was a no for me, since to me it tasted almost exactly like champagne, which I don't like. (I don't like fizzy drinks -- I don't drink pop, either. I ended up drinking a fair amount of champagne in Leicester because it got brought out at all the department events; even the orange juice got mixed with champagne.)
I might try another brand of hard cider in the hope that it'll be something fruitier -- given that Washington produces most of the apples in the U.S., there are local options. (I was hoping I'd like hard cider because...actually, god, I don't know why I thought I'd like hard cider. I don't even like apple juice. I don't even like regular cider because see again on the fizz. What the hell, Bedlam. I did have some very nice mulled cider in York, though, but that's obviously completely different.) Maybe I'll try hard lemonade.
I should just stick to cocktails. I don't even particularly like alcohol (control issues, and since my default state is irritation, I just get way more irritated when I actually drink enough to get slightly tipsy -- have never gone so far to drunk, because I get too irritated to keep drinking once I hit tipsy), so I'm not really sure why I'm that concerned with finding something that's socially acceptable to drink. 95% of the time I'd rather just have tea and the remaining 5% just juice. (Things I have tried and know I don't like: both red and white wine (it just tastes like spoiled grape juice to me, I'd rather have grape juice), champagne, certain cocktails that have way too much alcohol in them and taste like it. Beer I haven't bothered with because the smell puts me off -- my dad has been drinking beer my entire life, and a lot of it. Oh, I've tried bourbon too, I guess)
Something to do with social acceptability, I guess. I have the vague idea I'm going to teach myself how to mix cocktails once I move to New Orleans, though I don't know if I'll actually go through with it. On the rare occasion I actually feel like drinking in public, I usually spend a long time staring at the cocktail menu trying to find the fruitiest thing on it, or default to a margarita, since that's the one thing I know I'll drink. (OTOH, I have had some really terrible margaritas that ended up being essentially straight tequila, so...yeah.)
(Yes, believe it or not, I lived in New Orleans for four years, at a big party school, and did not drink. Which I kind of regret now, since NOLA's known for its drinking culture, but I'm moving back so I can make up for it. Plus I know where to go now.)
I might try another brand of hard cider in the hope that it'll be something fruitier -- given that Washington produces most of the apples in the U.S., there are local options. (I was hoping I'd like hard cider because...actually, god, I don't know why I thought I'd like hard cider. I don't even like apple juice. I don't even like regular cider because see again on the fizz. What the hell, Bedlam. I did have some very nice mulled cider in York, though, but that's obviously completely different.) Maybe I'll try hard lemonade.
I should just stick to cocktails. I don't even particularly like alcohol (control issues, and since my default state is irritation, I just get way more irritated when I actually drink enough to get slightly tipsy -- have never gone so far to drunk, because I get too irritated to keep drinking once I hit tipsy), so I'm not really sure why I'm that concerned with finding something that's socially acceptable to drink. 95% of the time I'd rather just have tea and the remaining 5% just juice. (Things I have tried and know I don't like: both red and white wine (it just tastes like spoiled grape juice to me, I'd rather have grape juice), champagne, certain cocktails that have way too much alcohol in them and taste like it. Beer I haven't bothered with because the smell puts me off -- my dad has been drinking beer my entire life, and a lot of it. Oh, I've tried bourbon too, I guess)
Something to do with social acceptability, I guess. I have the vague idea I'm going to teach myself how to mix cocktails once I move to New Orleans, though I don't know if I'll actually go through with it. On the rare occasion I actually feel like drinking in public, I usually spend a long time staring at the cocktail menu trying to find the fruitiest thing on it, or default to a margarita, since that's the one thing I know I'll drink. (OTOH, I have had some really terrible margaritas that ended up being essentially straight tequila, so...yeah.)
(Yes, believe it or not, I lived in New Orleans for four years, at a big party school, and did not drink. Which I kind of regret now, since NOLA's known for its drinking culture, but I'm moving back so I can make up for it. Plus I know where to go now.)