What's your poison?

iSon · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 14.28

It isn't! But pubs will glady give you a glass of larger and a glass of cider and allow you to do as you wish...

To add - one I had last night - Pernod and Black...haven't had it in a while and it seems to get more vile each time I have it - but I keep having them. Strange.

We have £50 behind the bar tonight - so any good exotic drink suggestions to help pass the quiz of the week along?

Spencer For Hire · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 14.42

I stopped drinking vodka and Red Bull after it started making me shake uncontrollably. I actually think it smells more like Benylin than jelly or whatever it was, although I quite like Benylin.

What I drink usually tends to depend on place and time. If it's Friday or Saturday night at home, it'll be a gin and tonic, and then some wine with dinner. If I'm at my local pub, it has to be a pint of bitter - usually Timothy Taylors. If I'm out in town though, some kind of bottled lager is usually the order of the day.

iSon · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 14.57

Spencer For Hire wrote:I stopped drinking vodka and Red Bull after it started making me shake uncontrollably. I actually think it smells more like Benylin than jelly or whatever it was, although I quite like Benylin.

What I drink usually tends to depend on place and time. If it's Friday or Saturday night at home, it'll be a gin and tonic, and then some wine with dinner. If I'm at my local pub, it has to be a pint of bitter - usually Timothy Taylors. If I'm out in town though, some kind of bottled lager is usually the order of the day.

It does have the tendancy to present some nasty side effects. Someone I knew had to be taken to hospital because he suffered from heart palpatations after a night on the poison. I suppose it's a blessing that my local charges so much for a glass of the stuff - stops you drinking it...

There was a discussion about prices of pints these days actually. £2.35 for a pint of Strongbow or £2.55 for a pint of Stella isn't easy on the old change purse. Was even more gutted to learn that when my brother started drinking down there it only cost him 98p for a pint.

Though I suppose Wetherspoons was invented - but they're hardly homely locals....then what do you expect!? The one on Baker Street is rather nice though.

jay · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 15.03

nodnirG kraM wrote:Yeah snakebite black. AFAIK it's not actually legal to sell it as a mixture!

LOL, well I did when I used to work at a local club! 8)

Am I the only one that likes good old lager - Carlsberg, Fosters and the like.

I'm not with all this 'Barcardi and Coke please Mfanwy' type refreshment.

Spencer For Hire · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 15.09

jay wrote:I'm not with all this 'Barcardi and Coke please Mfanwy' type refreshment.

Completely. Most alcopops are foul as well. I really don't know how anyone can drink anything so sweet and sickly. Give me a drink for grown ups any day.

Spencer For Hire · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 15.31

nodnirG kraM wrote:Haven't quite got into the Ale scene yet though.

Probably would do if it tasted nice.

I'm convinced it tastes better when you're somewhere with horse brasses on display.

jay · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 15.42

Spencer For Hire wrote:
nodnirG kraM wrote:Haven't quite got into the Ale scene yet though.

Probably would do if it tasted nice.
I'm convinced it tastes better when you're somewhere with horse brasses on display.

And the gentle waft of horse shit in the air.

fusionlad · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 19.11

Double vodka and Coke for me.... followed by double vodka and Coke. About 10 double vodka and cokes later, I'm well up for it.

marksi · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 20.27

Southern Comfort and White.

(and now, for those of you outside Northern Ireland, and explanation of what "white" is in this situation. It's white lemonade, as opposed to brown lemonade. It comes in different colours here).

Brad · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 20.37

I do think it depends on the weather. Nice cold lager if you're sitting at an outside pub table. Quite like ahem... "ale" as well!

Only I tend to drink that in colder months. And not sitting outdoors of course.
Can't stand those vodka pops things or whatever they are called now (the late-Hooch style stuff). Don't like orange juice/lemon juice at the best of times and a bit of booze in it does nothing to enhance it for me!

As for wine, I far prefer red!

Gavin Scott · Thu 09 Jun, 2005 20.46

marksi wrote:Southern Comfort and White.

(and now, for those of you outside Northern Ireland, and explanation of what "white" is in this situation. It's white lemonade, as opposed to brown lemonade. It comes in different colours here).

Does it taste the same? Is "lemonade" a generic term in the same way "ginger" means any fizzy drink in the west of Scotland?