I agree Mark. There's so much about alcohol I don't like, especially that horrible aftertaste. Foods that are drenched in alcohol are just as bad. I'd rather enjoy an alcohol free environment anyway, thank you very much.
That's how it started for me by the way: With a strawberry, some vodka and a very unusual party atmosphere. Well, those days are long gone, if only for today. Now I need to focus on recovery.
It's always better to be safe than sorry, as far as I'm concerned. The last thing we ever need is to trigger that allergy known as active alcoholism once again. And besides, I said goodbye to that cruel world long ago. Sayonara alcohol, don't ever come back you hear.
-- Edited by Mr_David on Saturday 3rd of November 2012 03:04:10 AM
This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste. I drank to get messed up. I did like the feeling of liquor burning as it went down. But the actual taste? I don't think so. I had to learn to tolerate that. Vodka was probably the most "tasteless" of all the hard liquors and I guess that is why it became my drink of choice. Beer stopped "tasting" good to me because it did not get me drunk fast enough. I was too far along in my alcoholism to enjoy beer much. I had to drink a case of it to even get drunk by the end basically.
So where does this leave me now? With an acute knowledge that alcohol doesn't really taste good to me and for "normal" drinkers, I guess they do think it tastes good. I dunno. That's not me. Even now, I spit out food if it tastes like it was cooked in alcohol. I don't like that taste. It's not even so much that I worry it will trigger a relapse for me if I eat chicken marsalla or rum cake. I just don't like the taste. At all. Strange.
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This came up in another post here and also in a conversation with my sponsor. He was saying to me that he didn't understand why people drank vodka because it tasted so awful. In my drinking, it eventually progressed to me drinking gallons of vodka so I had an answer for that. I never drank for the taste. I drank to get messed up. I did like the feeling of liquor burning as it went down. But the actual taste? I don't think so. I had to learn to tolerate that. Vodka was probably the most "tasteless" of all the hard liquors and I guess that is why it became my drink of choice. Beer stopped "tasting" good to me because it did not get me drunk fast enough. I was too far along in my alcoholism to enjoy beer much. I had to drink a case of it to even get drunk by the end basically.
I'm right there with ya PC ... I drank Vodka for the effect, not taste ... in fact, if you'll recall, our drinking that stuff killed the entire top layer of our 'taste buds' ... so it became 'impossible' to taste anything, seriously ... recall how your tongue was 'desert dry' in the a.m. and if you looked in the mirror, you had a 'white' layer of pastey dead taste buds there ... if you want to know if anyone is still active in their alcoholism, just ask to see their tongue, you'll know it immediately ... actually, I think some police officers working in 'drug' enforcement use the condition of a suspect's tongue to determine if they're active users or alkies or not ... it's a preliminary test I think ... normal tongue should be light pinkish, not cotton white ...
I just made myself laugh ... for some reason, I just pictured a bunch of readers here jumping up to go look at their tongue in the mirror ... LMAO, betcha they did, too!!!
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I always thought that any alcoholic drinks tasted crap. Some more than others maybe, but if they took the alcohol content out I wouldn't have gone near any of the stuff. Not having to taste the stuff anymore is one of the many bonuses of sobriety.
I could romanticize it all, but that only makes me crazy, and I have grown to like the feel of sobriety so I go there first. Ice cream tastes much better anyway...giggle!
Well maybe I'm one tof the oddities in that I like the taste of so many alcoholic drinks - however, after the first taste, I coulda been sucking spirits through a tramps sock for all I cared.......
Yes, i like the taste of most beers, most wines, most spirits and certainly any apple based drink.
So I stay away from apple jiuce - tastes too much like cidre - and cakes with rum or sherry in it.......puddings with brandy......main courses with aniseed (pernod)......you get the idea.
Favourite soft drink right now, after iced water.............Lipton's Ice Tea
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