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Wow and wow again! Never expected such a huge variety of responses from this thread!! and so many are hilarious!
Bumping it up again, so that some more of the 'regulars' might be tempted to post

Not a drinker anymore, but my favorite nonalcoholic drink right now is Bulletproof Coffee which I use with fasting. Gives me tons of energy and helps me to not feel hungery. If you are not aware of what it is, Google it, as its becoming quite popular in health circles.

Yes - hmmm, there are quite a few articles, of differing opnions ... I would be interested to know what the 'nerds' think of this though - any nerds out there to analyse??
I know quite a few on here swear by adding coconut oil to their drinks ... 140lbs for instance

Bulletproof coffee, first I thought you meant that coffee made from rodent droppings!! Not sure, coffee and butter and coconut oil does it really taste ok??

I must admit, I didn't think from the description that it would taste all that great - anyone else out there can tell us more?

A pina colada on the first evening of our honeymoon in Jamaica is probably my most memorable drink. I also remember my first taste of cider at a 13th birthday party, I hated it but pretended to like it to look cool.
And there's the other week after my swimming 1,5kms in the freezing river in Sweden exploit we got a beer with lunch - that was I think the most appreciated beer ever, not least because I never drink anymore as I've got 2 little ones who have both been breastfed into toddler years, so I've been either pregnant or breastfeeding for the last 5 years!

Most memorable drink is brandy and babycham in about 1974. Not in a good way!!


Only ever had brandy in a food recipe since!

I was very ill after having my little girl, I had pre eclampsia, emergency c section at 29 weeks, after the delivery I was on restricted fluids on the high dependency unit, after a night on sips of water only, a nurse got me a cup of tea, milk, one sugar, I kid you not that was the nicest most wonderful welcome cup of tea I have every had!

Jane, I can really identify with that one - (not from the delivery / childbirth point of view, lol!) but recently was just behind a very bad accident (ending up parallel on the grass verge, next to a head-on crash) - the cup of tea I eventually had back home was really the best I'd had in a long long time

Well having a good laugh at some of these posts - oh the memories. then it started to flood back...Blackberry nip as a 15 year old, stealing our parents spirits - I filled the gin bottle with water & since my parents didn't drink much I wasn't found out till my bro arrived home from uni one year and said he's make Mum a pink gin??? and then pointed the finger at me when he found it was 1% gin & 99% water There was a bottle of cheap cider I polished when young and I struggle to try those new trendy ciders after that shocking memory. Then we got really sophisticky Harvey Wallbangers (or ballbangers as we called them) & Tequila Sunrises. Then there was the mulled wine - yum! Working in restaurants and having the odd 'iced coffee'...bourbon & coke in a coffee mug...or a butterscotch schnapps hot chocolate (oh the calories!), then there was the Baby Cham in London in the 70s, soooo sophisticated! Then I worked in a better class of restaurant and have tried Penfolds Grange 1978 and Henschke Hill of Grace shiraz 1990 (sposed to be one of the best Oz wines ever made). I also used to have a dodgy friend who would buy us Dom Perignon every week. But today I rarely drink anything except water, coffee, red wine (preferably vintage) and the odd beer.

I've done a lot of drinking (still do) but the most memorable drink I ever had was a hot cocktail called Lumumba.
It contains chocolate milk, Cadbury chocolate liquor, rum and whipped cream. There might be something else in it, it's been 20 years since I had it.
What made it so interesting was the fact that it was steaming hot.

Another memorable drink for me was when I made my first B52. I don't like it but I made it myself and I was very proud!

My Granddad, the year I had my first restaurant job. I made everyone an Irish Coffee with proper floating double cream, it was ooh'd and ahhh'd by all the family as being really posh. Well 30 years ago it was. My Granddad got his drink and promptly stirred it.

Aaaaah, the first Irish Coffee I made was for my family in Glasgow. My cousin left his on the floor, his dog drank it all and then she (the dog) span around like crazy and fell asleep for 2 days.

Oh, GMH, I remember Babycham - yes "so sophisticated" LOL - do they sill make it, I wonder?????

GMH and lovemyparrot - yes they do!

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