Comments on: Confessions of a non-drinker

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Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:54:47 +0000

[...] not a fan of mousse in any shape or texture either alone or incorporated into something. I also donâ€™t drink (or rarely), so the lure of a liqueur is lost on me. But taking this dessert for what it is, I can [...]

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:45:00 +0000

Junnie-

Deal! But how can I bring you along when you’re all the way in Switzerland? At least you’ve got all the chocolate there!

lori

By: Junnie

Junnie — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:16:00 +0000

ok, lori. this is really a bit of a surprise, but then again when you do your next resto review and wine is being served, make sure you bring me, you get the dessert and the rest of the food, i get the wine and spirit.

deal?

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:46:00 +0000

Oops, I may have sounded a bit too impassioned in my comment. If I have to try marijuana to see what that’s all about then I’d rather not (last summer when I spent a few months living on a college campus with some friends, one of their goals was to get me to drink or smoke, but they didn’t succeed…hehe). I think I’d gag before I got to the point where it’d have any effect on me, and it would probably the same for alcohol. I’d rather be nicely relaxed because…I naturall feel nicely relaxed, not because I drank something (but that’s just me; I wouldn’t say that everyone has to feel the same way).

Cupcakes will make me friendly and happy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0000

Robyn: well if you never been drunk you can really not have an opinion, right? You have to at least try to know. It’s one thing not to like the taste of alcohol at once (in the end, who does?) but the effect is hard to resist now and then. It gets you nicely relaxed, open and (for most people) friendly happy! What can be wrong with that? I used to be like you, a bit afraid of what might happen. But then i surrendered and I’m glad I did! Wine i sso much better with food than the alternatives. Not to mention a good mojito on a hot day.

Of course, everything in moderation though! But a glass of wine or two now and then is just good for you. So let go of your control needs and relax.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:00:00 +0000

I like champagne and other fizzy wines.

Hard liquor makes me break out in rashes; whiskey, in fact, smells and tastes like gasoline to me.

Beer I drink when I’m with friends who do, and only extremely rarely; the only beer I really liked came from the now-defunct Brew Brothers, where A Venetto now is.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:11:00 +0000

I dislike alcohol. Anything that makes chocolate taste bad is just…bad! Arrrgh! I mean, I know that people have been drinking alcohol for a gazillion years but I still don’t understand the appeal. Cake? Good. Chocolate? Good. Pancakes? Very good. But mix alcohol with any of them (okay, probably not pancakes, and in some cakes a little bit doesn’t bother me) and…*shudders* I can’t eat chocolate if it has too much alcohol in it beacuse it’ll make me want to retch.

I wouldn’t really care to “face the fear” either. I’ve never been drunk or even close to being drunk and I doubt I ever will unless someone drugs me first.

That chef from Azzurro would freak me out, although I could use the excuse that I’m not old enough to drink and all would be fine and dandy. I hate that law; it keeps me out of music venues where I don’t want to drink anyway.

I guess I have plebeian tastes. OH WELL! Bring on the pancakes. And a glass of water.