Yesterday I Drank

I'm not big into the kanshos or the kikkus. Wagamama do a gin and tonic now though, which is very much what I'm into.

It's funny you should mention gin and tonic - yesterday Jo opened one of her birthday presents, a bottle of Kyoto gin, and we both had a gin and tonic with a slice of lime. I can stomach one G&T but no more, and it proved the case here. I wasn't sick, mind you!

Earlier in the day we'd been to Wagamama, only this time in Birmingham. Plum wine was had by all and it was good.

Here's what I've been drinking a lot of lately: milkshake.
I really like some chocolate milk on the way home from work. Sweet and refreshing, but not as much caffeine and sugar and that as a fizzy pop or anything to keep me from getting to sleep when I get home. More recently, I've been getting into strawberry numbers as well. Good stuff indeed.

My Wagamama choices are plum wine or a small sake flask. It's not the best sake, but it's nice enough!

Anyway I went to an aquarium plus prosecco evening. The free prosecco was a single glass on arrival, which was a bit cheap; so we bought another bottle to take around the aquarium. Then went for cocktails afterwards.

Boozing at the Aquarium?
Bold. What if someone chundered in a tank?

Eww.

Happily nobody did while we were there. I imagine the sharks wouldn't have taken too kindly.

Mulled wines! Several mulled wines! One of the best parts of November/December. I love me some mulled wines!

During Hyper Japan (last time, honest) I bought a can of Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla. Yes.



Quick review: everything that makes Dr. Pepper unique is lost in the mish-mash of flavours. Back to the Dr.awing board, methinks.

I found some Peach Coke Zero in Tesco yesterday and drank it a few hours later. It tasted like Coca Cola, and the aftertaste was peach. It worked! Hooray for science. By the time I got to the end of the bottle, though, I didn’t want any more. That was when I remembered - I don’t like the taste of peach.

A lesson learned, then.

Anybody else tried the new formula Irn-Bru? I'm not too sure what to think about it - there's a definite difference. Mind you, I barely touch the full sugar Irn-Bru any longer as I've converted to Irn-Bru Xtra which is just as good in my book.

I’ve not tried the new formula one but you are right that the Xtra version is pretty much identical. A masterful feat of engineering, that - literally no other sugar free version that I have found has managed the trick.

Peach Coke: delicious
Dr Pepper: Not actually all that popular over here. I had to go into a "foreign food" section to find the regular stuff, let alone cherry vanilla.

ZeroJones wrote:

I’ve not tried the new formula one but you are right that the Xtra version is pretty much identical. A masterful feat of engineering, that - literally no other sugar free version that I have found has managed the trick.

I'd argue that Pepsi Max and Fanta Zero have both nailed the sugar free version as well. I prefer those to their full-fat variants.

Speaking of Dr. Pepper, its sugar free version is vile and it could very well be a sin to consume it.

I''ve never got along with Coke Zero/ Pepsi Max. I can drink a whole can and not feel like I've consumed anything. I could just as easily breathe in a can of air for the same effect. They don't even leave me refreshed in the sense of having consumed a volume of liquid.

Never tried the 'zero' versions of coke-flavoured sodas, however I love peach flavourings and so should probably give that a go.

Dr. Pepper is horrendous.

@Balla: ‘Horrendous’ is a bit much, bro.

@Drunka: bang on. My wife is as addicted to Pepsi Max as I am to Lucozade and we sometimes - very rarely - dip into each other’s supplies. PM, as we call it in our house, is definitely not as good as the original... and I don’t even like that very much.

Nah, I really really dislike Dr. Pepper. Not sure why.

I've bought some Coke Peach to keep me going whilst was watching Mania this weekend, I hope I like it.

Pepsi Max is the best of them all, then Coke Zero.

Strange one with Dr Pepper as I don't think I really liked but the past few weeks I've had a craving for it and the same with peanut butter (I hate nuts).

masofdas wrote:

Strange one with Dr Pepper as I don't think I really liked but the past few weeks I've had a craving for it and the same with peanut butter (I hate nuts).  

Are you pregnant?

Also explain mood swings.

Great use of Trollnir from Admin Thor there.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA N MOONSHINE

So my not Adam :s like do you wanna come to a fireworks thing. Naturally I it's an organised thing but no, it's just us setting of some fireworks ft the ruined in oasis

Then Simon and his return European friends show and Susu,a visit bit still kinda not but, has brought bottles of homemade social that is like Cody larceny and made from fruit. Sure gets zinger, Adam Freud shared, he wants to go cooking. Eye get home and party Mario Kate, he can't handle is right, and in like okay let's go bed, well up clubbing when you can stand upright n

It is hard being the sober one

Top-quality Drunkanese there. Although sadly I think I can understand most of it.