Re: egg nog : Sat Dec 31, 2011 6:08 am  

Marginally worse than being offered a glass of Harvey's Bristol Cream thats been in the drinks cabinet for at least 5 years.

Re: egg nog : Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:21 am  

Horrible stuff

Re: egg nog : Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:48 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Ah ... reminds me of the "Snowball" ... Advocaat and lemonade frothed together and topped with a glace cherry on a little plastic sword.

Uuurgh !

Not forgetting the "Bleeding Heart"

A sherry schooner of advocaat with a dash of cherry brandy in the middle of it

Re: egg nog : Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:47 pm  

Big Ask wrote:

Marginally worse than being offered a glass of Harvey's Bristol Cream thats been in the drinks cabinet for at least 5 years.

Aye, once opened, a bottle of decent sherry should be consumed, just as you would a bottle of any wine, i.e. within a day or not much longer.

Bristol Cream, however, should stay in the cupboard forever or, at a push, be used in the bottom of a trifle.

Re: egg nog : Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:58 pm  

Advocaat. Second only to Baileys in the "You're sober and you're really going to drink that?" stakes.


Ugh.


Best left to 'daring' maiden aunts.

Re: egg nog : Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:40 pm  

Warninks Advocaat and De Kuyper Cherry Brandy held pride of place in my mum's drinks cabinet ... oh, and Babycham.
They were hard times for a budding drinker like myself.
Cue the Monty Python sketch about hardship.

Oh and I just found this out....

In 1995 Erven Warninks merged with De Kuyper Royal Distillers.

How spooky is that?

Re: egg nog : Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:22 pm  

Scooter Nik wrote:

Advocaat. Second only to Baileys in the "You're sober and you're really going to drink that?" stakes.


Ugh.


Best left to 'daring' maiden aunts.

Am ex of mine once persuaded me to drink two shots: one containing Bailey's the other Cointreau. I was told to knock back the Bailey's first but keep it in my mouth, then hit the Cointreau and also keep it in my mouth.

When I spat the curdling mess on the floor she said: "now you know how it feels, you bastad"

Re: egg nog : Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:40 pm  

Hull White Star wrote:

You've never lived as a kid if you hadn't shared a snow ball or two with Grandma

Thanks for putting a smile on my face - great memory of my Gran.