Archived comment by Mechanic:
Wow, I live across the Liffey from the Guinness brewery, and I never realised it's Mecca to people!

Archived comment by Nevada Dave:
Phil-

Simpsons: Mayor Quimby's nephew threatening/insulting the waiter, who suffers from extreme clumsiness. Bart saw the whole clumsy thing while hiding under a giant Rice Crispie treat.

**Needs to get out more**

And to contribute my $0.02, I actually don't drink the alkyhol. Never saw a need to, and save lots of money just drinking soda instead.

Archived comment by different phil:
Posting waaay behind the times here...

URMGuy - Blues Brothers. Excellent movie. I would pay a lot of money to learn how to park like Elwood did at that restaurant.

Archived comment by Don:
Clamato doesn't taste like it sounds. In the right context, such as New England Chowder, It is actually good. But with beer, Yeeeich!

Archived comment by Arlene:
Once more I have no clue.

Archived comment by umrguy:
All right, here's a coupla cool points for anyone still reading this one (it's kinda sorta related (but not really) to this post, so that should give you a hint...):

"You get wise! You get to church!"

Archived comment by steff:
mindy... equation for you: baseball bat + drunken stupor = miserable the next day regardless of cheese blintziness. =) never used this myself, but just threatening to seems to make me feel better. i don't own a baseball bat anyway.

Archived comment by mindy:
he was fighting with his mom, not me.

Archived comment by mindy:
you SHOULD be embarrASSed. that was a horrible night! here's me, having just met a whackload of his relatives, dealing with him wasted and fighting with his mom, bumming cigarettes off his dad i was so stressed. and later that night wiping the green stuff he kept spitting off of his face... yum. and he didn't even have the decency to be miserable the next day.

Archived comment by Ben:
and is definintely Clam-AY-to...

Archived comment by Ben:
I personally prefer like 5 glasses of scotch chased with a 2 liter bottle of beer (chugged). Don't worry about drinking any water, you'll flush your system in about an hour... trust me... The next morning get up and have a plate of cheese blintzes from IHOP. Not only will everyone be amazed that you are alive, but probably pissed as well that you can function...

Oh, and if possible - do this at a cousins wedding, it goes over real well with both your family and theirs... On second thought, don't take one piece of that advice... as a matter of fact, try NOT to do any of the preceeding... well, unless you like cheese blintzes. I'm amazed that Mindy didn't leave me on the spot... thats how I knew she was a keeper.

And yes, four or five years later, I am still embarrassed... and learning to spell.

Archived comment by Debi:
I'm pretty sure it's Clam-ah-to, regardless of how you pronounce tomato.

Also, it's WAY easier to be born genetically immune to hangovers, than to have to figure out a way around them:p!

Archived comment by Paul:
One of the stranger things about alcohol is that if you drink a lot and ingest a lot of sugar at the same time, it makes you violently ill the next day. This is why hangovers from champagne are so horrid- there's the alcohol, the sugar and the acid from it all at once. So getting drunk on sweet stuff like Midori will make you feel like shit the next day, guaranteed.

If you want to drink and get drunk and not have the hangover, you drink something like scotch straight or with water, and before you go to sleep you chase it with as much water as you can stand to drink. You'll wake up having to piss like a racehorse, but you won't be hung over.

Oh yeah- and I agree about the Genny Screamers (Genesee Cream Ale). Horrid stuff. And if youve ever been in Rochester and seen the Genesee River, which they advertise is the source of their water, you'll understand why it tastes like that.

Archived comment by Adam:
Clam-ah-to or clam-ay-to? And even on the island of manhattan, we prefer our chowder white.

Archived comment by Phil:
Say CHOWDA!

No cool points, in fact, this earns "needs to get out more" points.

Archived comment by Ben:
I haven't made NE Clam, Manhattan Clam, fish, corn or potato chowder in.... 8 years...

Archived comment by Montygirl:
I've never had Clamato, but it sounds revolting.

mindy - do you order pizza when Ben whips up a red chowder?

I think red chowder should be contained to the island of Manhattan. Just give me the good old artery-clogging, butter and cream saturated New England version, please.

Archived comment by debi:
I'm gonna join you, Jim...it's time to be ill.

Archived comment by steff:
he mixes them. mmm, beefmato. two great tastes that taste great together and liquefied.

Archived comment by Ben:
Well... at least nobody has brought up Beefmato again... yep, you can guess whats in that...

Archived comment by Debi:
Does he MIX clamato and beer, or these separate treats??

Archived comment by Jim:
I think I'm going to be ill. In fact, I'm sure of it.

Archived comment by steff:
i third, jon. motion carries. a perpetually drunk (or at least lightly basted) uncle drinks nothing but clamato and beer. blech!

Archived comment by Jon:
Motion for offense seconded. Do I hear a third?

Archived comment by mindy:
i am personally offended by the existance of such a revolting substance as clamato.

Archived comment by Ben:
Clamato makes a good substitute for clam broth for a manhattan clam chower (red).

Archived comment by suziqueue:
I'm a beer fiend... gotta be Miller Lite

My husband is a Strawberry Dacquiry (sp?)guy - which is kinda funny considering he's this big macho cowboy. Just picture us in a restaurant... guess who always get the Strawberry thing.

I used to drink tequilla (amaretto tequilla - the best) but had to stop - made me 10 foot tall and bullet proof, which after a few "minor" incidents I realized.

Archived comment by Jon:
Wheat beer: Ewww. Ewww eww eww. Beer, for some reason, dries me up like the Sahara(or the Gobi) - but wheat beer has the same effect x10! Besides that, I find it repulsive. More of it to drink for you folks, as a result.

Rum and coke is OK if the rum isn't too cheap... the same goes for a gin & tonic. One of the worst drinking(taste-wise, not projectile vomiting) experiences I had was with gin from a plastic bottle *with built-in handles*. I should have known better, but it was a college party with my brother's friends, and I was trying to act all adult and cool. *sigh*

Bailey's and Kahlua are pretty much on the top of my GOOD list, which is why drinks made from them tend to be my favorites. Mudslide... dessert and drink all in one... little to no alcohol taste... lovely. (The Mudslide at TGIFriday's is the only thing I really like there.)

As you may have guessed, my sweet tooth is about the size of Alaska(mmm, Baked Alaska), so I tend towards the sweet girly drinks. Sours and bitters don't agree with me, and send me to worship the porcelain throne sooner. Ergo, don't drink with me if you're going to offer dark beers or sour liquers...
All hard ciders/lemonades/Smirnoff Ice drinks are acceptable. No Zima allowed.

Archived comment by guy:
saint- i will adnit it i usta be an alcoholic (not in the sence of the definition, but i did drink an awfully lot and did consume great volumes of liquor), i usually mix my drinks in bout 20 oz cups or much more handy a 20oz pop bottle, even though watered down lookin orange juice dosent fool anyone in a mountain dew bottle.

but i can say that im not an alcoholic any more, i graduated from high school and went to college,and sobered up (SERIOUSLY!)

Archived comment by Saint:
Yeah, I was being hyperbolic. But I have known some small guys who could put away massive amounts of alcyhol. A buddy of mine (145 lbs, but he could eat a large pizza every meal of every day) used gin on his breakfast cereal--not because he was out of milk, just because he liked it. And he kept straight vodka in his water bottle in class. And I never, ever saw him drunk. Hello, Mr. Metabolism.

Archived comment by Pete:
Back to the topic of bad drinks:

I've known people that put clamato juice into their beer. Which I have tried solely out of curiosity and it is seriously disgusting.
(for those Non-Canadian types clamato is tomato and clam juice)

Archived comment by Matt:
I sure hope you're being hyperbolic, Saint, 'cause tolerance depends heavily upon body weight. I've seen little slip-of-a-thing girls get sloppy and embarassing after two drinks and I've been known to have Guinness for breakfast when I was out of cereal.

BTW, there are better stouts than Guinness, but none with that amazingly creamy texture _and_ good taste.

Archived comment by Pman:
I have had experiences with good-tasting drinks, and the aftermath isn't pretty. Alcohol should be difficult to drink, cause men are stupid enough to drink themselves to death. Bad taste is a precursor to the hangover hell you will invariably experience the next day. Therefore, it is a running decision to keep drinking, as the bad taste is a continual warning - "Hey, buddy...If you think it tastes bad going down, just you wait..."

Archived comment by David.:
I'm not much for fruity drinks. Actually I'm not much for sweet drinks in general. The exception is Irish Coffee, with generous dollops of brown sugar and whipped cream.

Wheat beer=good. Guinness=very good indeed. Strawberry-kiwi beer=bad. But that's just me; your mileage may vary. I do think Guinness could be as reasonable a basis for a religion as some that have become better established. You just have to look to those old vintage ad posters for verification:

My goodness. My Guinness.

Archived comment by mindy:
mmm... bailey's in hot cocoa... with marshmallows! that has gotten me through every boston winter since we moved here. watch the nor'easter tear up the world outside the window, it's ok, you have bailey's cocoa!

Archived comment by Bryan:
I should amend my post to "best beer made in the USA" There are imports that are better(Guinness), but not many.

Archived comment by Bryan:
I recently discovered Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer(made in Kansas City) and I would gladly nominate it for best beer in the USA

Archived comment by Adam:
Bailey's is good stuff. Hot Bailey's and coffee on a cold day. Nothing better.

Beer... depends where you get it. Most US beer sucks, although some of it ain't too bad. A lot of the stuff in Germany was pretty good. Some of it was amazingly bad. Some of it was even fruity. ;-)

And real drinks... I dunno, I guess I'm a girly-drink kind of guy. Whiskey sour, usually. Apricot sour, occasionally. Anything straight over mixed with coke, as a general rule, but melon liquor and sprite is good.

Um, whether or not I'm over 21, I guess I play it on this site.

Archived comment by marix:
My favorite liquor...and the only one I'd drink plain, is Bailey's Irish Cream. Mmmmmm...

Other than that...the fruitier the better. Midori is good.

Archived comment by Aaron Kimball:
tell you what's good, Rum and Coke. Beer tastes like piss, but rum's good stuff. 1 part rum to 1 part coke. mmm.

And no, manliness (in my book) doesn't stem from
the ability or desire to tolerate crappy tasting drinks. It's about knowing what you like and drinking it.

Archived comment by Saint:
If you are not drunk by the first few drinks, you are an alcoholic. Or you have the metabolism of a hyperactive hummingbird on speed. Well, depending on the size of the drink. But nobody shoots screwdrivers, do they?

Archived comment by guy:
i prefer my screwdrivers 1 part oj to 3 parts vodka, i aquired such a taste while on a trip once, where we had 2 litres gin and 1.75 liters of vodka, and in our supreme wisdom had brought only one half gallon of orange juice. but i can say that after the first few drinks even if not drunk you start to get used to the flavor

Archived comment by umrguy:
Properly made screwdrivers are good for that. 3 parts OJ to 1 part vodka, if I'm not mistaken. Does wonders.

Archived comment by Chris:
Personally, I am a guy, and I really prefer my alcohol to taste somewhat good. I don't really care if it is a 'chick' drink. It just makes no sense to choke something terrible down when it can go down with a pleasant taste and ultimately have the same effect.

Archived comment by mindy:
now, now, boys and girls... where was it ever written that in order to be respectable, a beverage must taste like fire and bile? and what is up with this, guys? can anyone explain to me the commonly held misconception that the worse your drink tastes the more of a manly-man you are for drinking it? i mean really... once a bartender at our favorite- bukowski's- made a snide remark to a girl who ordered a blueberry ale, so i challenged him to offend my delicate fiminine taste buds with a real "manly" beer. he gave me something that actually tasted like meat. for real. beer that tasted like jerky had been pureed in to it. but without the greasy heartburn scum. i was not disgusted, i was just amazed. my amazement stemmed from not only the incredible approximation of meat flavor, but also from the fact that someone, somewhere along the line had thought the production and consumption of such a beverage was a good idea. and that is my meat beer story- the closest i ever want to come to being a "real man".

Archived comment by triticale:
Certainly preferable to fruity guy drinks.

Archived comment by Mike:
"Blasphemer!"

(*banished to the Hell of Fruity Chick Drinks*)

Archived comment by krikri:
If I was affiliated with any beer-based religion, I think I'd be a Steel Reservist. Yummy, and twice the alkyhol of regular beer!

Archived comment by molli:
...but isn't that the whole point?

Archived comment by Somnambulist:
Perky?

I'm not sure that that would be a quality that I
would want in an alcohol drink