Liquor and one of CJ's mental blind spots

[cjsmith]

Sometimes when I'm out with friends I'll have a mixed drink from a bar. My latest favorite isn't a very complicated drink, but drinks in general are something I mostly just don't grok, so I only have stuff like that where there is a bartender and a well-stocked bar. I figure those are trained professionals who know how to deal with a glass containing multiple alcoholic things.

Today I was helping friends declutter for a move. Among other things, they let me raid their liquor cabinet. I now have a small handful of random kinds of liquor. Naturally I came home and had no clue where to put these things, as I've never owned liquor. I started to think that maybe if we have a party I could get really bold and buy the ingredients for some mixed drinks people like. Surely people who attend parties like that sort of thing.

It took several more hours for me to realize I could buy the ingredients for a mixed drink I like. I imagine they sell such things in stores. It's weird to realize that stores don't sell only things that other people like. They probably also sell things I would like.* All I have to do is go there and pick out something with myself in mind.

What a concept.
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* Well, some stores. I admit, not many. I'm not entirely insane for not having thought of this before now.

Comments

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

I love fuzzy navels too, but only if done with decent orange juice (ideally fresh, but Ceres, or failing that Tropicana will do as well). Hereabouts bars tend to use tinned, which is nasty :-/ Give Midori a try - that's one of my favourite things to mix into stuff (if you like margaritas, try a lime margarita with midori and cointreau).

Coffee with liqueurs in it is very nice too - Kahlua and Baileys is a standard but lovely combination. Tia Maria is sadly way too expensive to put in coffee (or even to buy very often) but you owe it to youtself to try a shot of it at least once :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh ick. Bars I've visited have never used tinned. That really changes the taste...

Tia Maria, eh? I'll keep an eye out. :-)