Andrew

[Andrew MacLean]

In todays Nanny state, my cocktail making skills would be fround upon for being to dangerous

... Or just not good value for money.

I'm not sure how pleased I'd have been to pay cocktail bar prices to see someone even as charming as Gareth, pour the ingredients all over his feet and then hand me a glass of crushed ice with some orange juice, a cherry and an umbrella!



tomorrow evening, I shall be going out for dinner with my wife, and on our way to the restaurant I think we may just stop off in one of Glasgow's many excellent cocktail bars and ask the bar keep to mix us something with that coconut and rum stuff that is so enjoyed by Welsh Nurses who live in London in flats with a view of the Thames.

Andrew

[GarethB]

Andrew,

Before placing your order, ask the bar keep if he has KC.

If the answer is NO, then you will be safe

[John Smith]

...and Andrew, remember to use it's given name: "Malibu". I'm sure that the cocktail person will be very confused if you used the Sweet welsh nurse description

[Andrew MacLean]

Progress Report

I went to the cocktail bar. I ordered a Malibu (I decided to try it neat so that I could savour the flavour of the unadulterated spirit in all its purity and simplicity.)

"Ice with that?" the bar man was looking a little askance at me. I had no idea, does one put ice in Malibu? I know that icxe in a good malt scotch is a dead give away for somebody who has no idea!

But maybe Malibu is something that needs ice. Perhaps drinking Malibu without ice is like drinking unchilled white wine, or lager at room temperature.

I tried hard to look like I was not flustered. "No thank you" I looked at him as if I thought the question beneath contempt.

He was smiling that feintly superior smile that bar tenders affect when they know the customer has made a complete prat of himself, but still hope for a tip.

I tested the "nose" of the drink. Yes, I got both rum and coconut. Maybe this will be like a Pina colada without the pineapple, I thought as I took a little sip.

It was indescribably bad. "How does Sweet drink this stuff?" I thought.. Clearly she shows a determination that I lack. I smiled back at the bar man, trying not to look like I had made a serious blunder. I did manage to finish the drink, but came away with an impression that, at last, I had discovered why they invented Cola.

I made my way to the off sales and bought a bottle of Krug to help to celebrate my wife's upcoming publication.

Now Krug is a drink worthy of long and lingering enjoyment in convivial company. Unlike other champagnes, its first fermentation is in oak casks, so the finished drink is darker gold than most sparkling wines and it has a slightly vanilla sensation. The bouquet is wonderfully creamy, leading to magical combination of weight and balance on the palate. The long, lingering finish is both nutty and toasty, ending with a final flourish of freshness, leaving one longing for more.

Andrew

[Sweet]

Hehehe oh dear i laughed so dam hard at this!! LOL!!!

Malibu is NOT a nice drink neat, which is why the barman asked if you wanted ice! I only like it with diet coke and NO ice, but each to their own!! LOL!!

Hehehe i think you should stick with the Krug!! LMAO!!!

Sweet X x X

[Andrew MacLean]

Sweet

Thank you for the advice. I shall try! The problem is that while the Krug family has never shipped a bad wine, they have also never shipped a wine that cost much less than 90 quid a bottle, so it is only for very special occasions.

Andrew

[Vic]

I discovered recently, having run out of diet coke but not malibu, that neat malibu is not the nicest of things. Malibu and pineapple juice was recommended to me, and that is very nice

[Andrew MacLean]

vic

That would be like pina colada without the cholesterol! A health drink!

Sadly my experience with unadulteralted Malibu will make it very unlikely that I shall ever again hear myself say, "Mine's a Malibu".

Actually I discovered a number of years ago that I quite like drinking tonic water, all by itself. Please, nobody tell me that I risk Quinine poisoning. I don't think I can cope with learning that anything else I enoy will lead to my sudden and premature death.

I used to enjoy gold top milk.

I used to enjoy butter.

I used to enjoy tomato juice.

I used to enjoy white bread.

I used to enjoy scarmbled egg.

I even used to enjoy spoarkling mineral water.

I used to enoy smoked salmon and cream cheese.

I used to enjoy just about everything that the food police now forbid, even raw oysters!

I'm off to munch through a slice of toasted brown bread spread with benecol with my afternoon tea.

[GarethB]

I live by simple logic;

Everyone agrees too much of a good thing is bad for you.

Therefore too much of a bad thing is good for you.

My mother inlaw is a health food fanatic and goes on all sorts of courses that she is a qualified dietician, she has never smoked and tried to be active and is an ex nurse; she has angina, blood preasure problems, developed asthma a few years ago and has really bad arthritis and needs to go into hospit for drugs to be administerd by IV to bring it under control.

Now my Dad smokes cigars, likes his beer in moderation, does little to no exercise, eats what he likes, but he does go to church which my mother inlwaw does not and he is the same age as the mother inlaw. He is not over weight, has absolutly no health issues and the local GP surgery do a well person clinic for the over 60's where you get an annual MOT for the body.

My Mum ate healthily and she died 12 years ago from Cancer!

I will stick to my unhealthy life style thanyou