Plan B Forum

Also (stolen borrowed from Jim Wright, on Facebook):

Note: the entire conservative red South was shut down by a couple of snowflakes. Irony indeed.

If you added this:




You could title it ‘Snow in Northern New England’

BoSoxGal wrote:If you added this:




You could title it ‘Snow in Northern New England’

Life is too short to drink cheap wine (or crappy booze).  Even in Wisconsin ... or should I say 'especially in Wisconsin'? ... we know the difference between real coffee liqueur (think Kahlúa), good brandy, and half-and-half bastardized swill like what you pictured.

I suppose a bottle of that stuff is better than nothing, though.

-"BB"-

Yes, Allen's is the best selling liquor in Maine - a generally low-income population state. It first became popular as an add-on to real coffee among lobstermen, and its popularity grew from there. It actually tastes pretty darn good, and costs about half as much as Kalhua - working poor blue collar people can't afford to be snooty about their booze like someone high and mighty like you.

One of my very first jobs out of high school was working for a telephone marketing firm in Tempe, AZ. For almost a year I worked on a beer survey funded by Coors; I called mostly people in the northeast and midwest and asked them questions about their drinking habits. In those days, your neck of the woods preferred Milwaukee's Best or Pabst - now they guzzle Bud Light, most definitely a really classy swill. Apparently one of the best selling liquors is Captain Morgan's Rum - another high end delight.

You know what I think about you, right?

One of my favorite winter drinks (especially after skiing) is coffee with Kahlua and Brandy (some places call it Keoke coffee); this looks like the brandy and Kahlua together, just add the coffee. No need to look for "quality" liqueurs when you're mixing with something as strong flavored as coffee (I wouldn't put cognac in place of brandy either). I'd have to see what it tastes like (and the proportions of brandy and coffee liqueur), and I doubt I'd drink it neat (but then I don't drink Kahlua neat, let alone Kahlua and brandy), but it probably is fine in coffee.

Anything I drink alone, be it scotch (and bourbon) or wine or liqueurs, I will look for quality (or at least something I know and like, some highly touted brands taste like rotgut to me); but when mixing, I'm less particular because you taste the mixer, not the booze.

Could be worse...it could be King Cobra or MD 2020.