Watcha eating?

[RobertBrown]

Early Times??? Sorry doc but that is cheap stuff great for mixing.... I was running out of Dickel and Sundrop...

David

You just put your foot in your mouth my friend...respectfully
He who mixes Bourbon with Diet Soda, should not be evaluating spirits. Early Times is a quality spirit. You could find a smoother bourbon but your going to have spend a lot more.
You don't see a lot money spent on promoting Early Times, it's made well and sells itself.

 

[IslandTractor]

You just put your foot in your mouth my friend...respectfully
He who mixes Bourbon with Diet Soda, should not be evaluating spirits. Early Times is a quality spirit. You could find a smoother bourbon but your going to have spend a lot more.
You don't see a lot money spent on promoting Early Times, it's made well and sells itself.

I avoid anything sweet as a mixer with spirits. I'll go for a rum and coke occasionally but that is about it. Might as well add grain alcohol to whatever pop you like otherwise. Good spirits should be appreciated straight up. Vodka and gin I don't feel so strongly about but bourbon, scotch etc, especially single malts or craft made spirits should be enjoyed neat or with a dash of H2O. OK, I won't pontificate on that any longer (but Diet Mountain Dew, yeh gads!, that's one step on the slippery slope to a Shandy )

 

[IslandTractor]

Nutrition is a relatively young science. Lots is unknown and the interactions between diet, exercise and genes are complex and almost always very confusing. On top of that, nutrition is an applied science which means that carefully controlled test tube experiments are not possible and the methodologies used in nutritional studies are often rather loose and lack proper validation. Even worse, there are at least ten nutcases with a pet theory for every legitimate unbiased investigator in the field. This difficult situation is made even worse by the World Wide Web where a billion instant experts tout their favorite theory with near religious fervor.

I honestly don't think we are close to a true understanding of what an optimal diet is and my own bias is that we will not know for another generation. In the meantime we need to "pay the money and take the chances". Some will subject themselves to a rigid difficult diet that may or may not pan out to be necessary. Others will ignore all advice and continue the modern American über diet. The Golden Mean principle may or may not apply here but that is what I am comfortable following. No supplements. No excessive restrictions. Watch the belt line. Get some exercise. Enjoy a drink or two, experience and enjoy a variety of good food and watch the world go by. Life is too short to spend much time worrying about exactly what to eat. And, never forget, life is too long to drink cheap wine.

 

[M E Race]

Will have to disagree with that study. My cholesterol level was 128 when I had heart attack with 90 percent blockage. But then it could have been caused be stress since that was the day they crowned our new king in D.C.

 

[toppop52]

OK that one that has only 45 calories per tablespoon and all 45 come from fat.
5g total fat, 1.5 saturated
no cholesterol

Butter, 1 T
102 calories
Total saturated 7.29
Total monounsaturated 2.98
Total polyunsaturated 0.43
There's about 33 mg of cholesterol in a tablespoon of butter.

Your choices are kind of ahhh, how can I say this nicely........

You do realize that high cholesterol comes more from eating fat than eating cholesterol, which actually does little to raise cholesterol. But you are correct, neither is a Great choice.

 

[mjarrels]

I have to be careful... choked on a piece of steak a few years ago. Wife is in the medical field and knew what to do. She did the right thing to me and did the right thing for an old gale in the philippines a couple years later. I don't eat chunks of beef alone anymore.

mark

 

[MossflowerWoods]

You just put your foot in your mouth my friend...respectfully
He who mixes Bourbon with Diet Soda, should not be evaluating spirits. Early Times is a quality spirit. You could find a smoother bourbon but your going to have spend a lot more.
You don't see a lot money spent on promoting Early Times, it's made well and sells itself.

Robert,

I apologize. I like Early Times just fine, I buy it by the case (in the 1.75 size). But I discovered it due to it's low price and kept buying it because it tasted good mixed.

I don't drink sugary sodas, I switched to diet decades ago, and I can't stand the sugary stuff, so I ALWAYS mix with diet (sorry again).

For GOOD Bourbon, I buy Booker, I keep it in my boot flask, and I have a couple bottles for my good friends.

For straight, I drink Irish, or occasionally singlemalt scotch.

I hope you can forgive me.

David

 

[toppop52]

I'm an old hillbilly, since i don't make my own sipping whiskey anymore, an old family tradition, i just sip Southern Comfort. But only 100 proof, the others are not smooth enough, especially that 60 proof crap, it tastes like Robitussin!

 

[dmccarty]

The family and I were down at east last week for a school field trip. While visiting Fort Fisher, I found a book that was the history of Carolina Beach in post cards. One of the interesting things about the post cards were the people, especially the women. Photos I have seen from the same time period, 20's-40's, showed that most of the people were slender with only a few that looked a bit pudgy but they were not dressed in a bathing suit either. Certainly nobody was fat like we can often see today. The postcards in the book showed women who certainly were NOT slender and NOT fat but I would say a bit pudgy. These postcards were meant to get people to the beach and where certainly considered a bit risque by the standard of the day so it leads one to believe that the body size was an ideal of the time. I was a bit surprised by the photos.

The women were not fat or even Rubenesque that is for sure but they were certainly a bit heavier than I expected. Course their being a bit heavier was more healthy than the starving models you see today.

Later,
Dan

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I avoid anything sweet as a mixer with spirits. I'll go for a rum and coke occasionally but that is about it. Might as well add grain alcohol to whatever pop you like otherwise. Good spirits should be appreciated straight up. Vodka and gin I don't feel so strongly about but bourbon, scotch etc, especially single malts or craft made spirits should be enjoyed neat or with a dash of H2O. OK, I won't pontificate on that any longer (but Diet Mountain Dew, yeh gads!, that's one step on the slippery slope to a Shandy )

I guess Chivas and Dr. Pepper isn't so popular any more?