You know I feel the same about alcohol AND coffee. I can't stand the taste of either. Can't even stomach the SMELL of coffee. People think I'm weird because I don't like coffee, since it's just assumed that EVERYONE likes coffee. LOL

And another non- drinker over here :wave: I am alcoholic and I am sober since October 2003. I was (I am) very lucky to realize that alcohol is a huge problem for me when I was very young- I stopped with 23 years. But I had to learn it the hard way....

Maybe it´s becaue I am european and live in Europe, but I received a few bad comments because I am not drinking alcohol (and I don´t eat food with alcohol, I am very careful with that).
But I learned that it is always the people who are drinking too much alcohol themselves who have a problem with someone drinking juice...


Kate

I'll be another one that doesn't understand the attraction of coffee. I like tea but coffee is not very good :) I've even had what people consider "very good" coffee and I can't really tell the difference. I've drank coffee before but mostly because I needed the caffeine and certainly not for the taste.

I have a good reason for not drinking!
 

I don't touch alcohol any more. It has caused me alot of problems.
In July 2000, I was coming home on a Friday night of a long weekend. I was no more than 8 minutes from home and I was hit HEAD ON by a drunk driver.

My car was totaled but thats nothing. I spent a week in hospital. I had to have surgery to put my hip back into place. And then went through another 9 months of physical therapy to be able to walk properly.

I don't have any problem with those that choose to drink provided that they do it responsibly.
The worse part is that this guy that hit me, it was his 3rd drunk driving conviction....he had a suspended license and was wanted that night for domestic violence on his girlfriend. Turns out he beat up his girlfriend, took her car and went to the bar, got drunk and hit me on the way home. :devil:

But the good thing is that I met my husband while I was off work. I had met up with a friend after physio one day and met him! :)

It's the brewers yeast..guinness is a galactagogue as are most microbrews, but the p*ss water that most american breweries pass off as "beer" aren't, they've been pasteurized and filtered and the yeast is dead dead dead.

I dont know if I would even qualify as a "social" drinker, because I dont drink at parties or social events, I will have an occasional (only if they have a dark beer on a nitro tap) beer with dinner. I am an extreme beer snob, IF I drink it has to be high quality and for the taste, After 1/2 beer, the taste becomes less relevant, so why have more?

Barrie, thank God you're alive and well. That is a horrendous story. :hug:

I know nothing of microbrews and am pretty ignorant on the subject of beer, but I love me some coffee :coffee: :hyper:

Barrie, WOW! What a horrible thing to endure... you must be a very strong person. I'm glad you met your hubby though!

Coffee vs. tea; if I have to drink it straight, I'll take tea, but I prefer the coffee power caffeine hook-up most days ;) I doubt I will ever master drinking coffee black. UGH. But a latte, well, that's a different story for this wussy chick. :T

Favorite tea = definitely Earl Grey. Mmm... :coffee: When my mom was out working some nights, my dad would make me and my sister tea with milk and sugar, to go with our omelettes or mac-n-cheese heh! To make it a healthy meal, we'd get a tablespoon or so of vegetables to be able to say we ate some if we had to give a mom report :lol: Somehow I never got scurvy or beriberi, and I managed to grow pretty tall (5'8") heh!

LOL! That's kinda what I've asked my mom everytime she pushes me to try Blue Cheese over and over again. She said it grows on you, but why the heck would someone keep eating something that grows on them just to see if it will grow??? Now I kinda did that with yogurt. I kept sampling different brands to find one I could stand, but only because yogurt is GOOD for you and I was trying to change my eating habits. Well, in the process of looking for a brand I could stand, it "grew" on me. I like all yogurts now. But I wouldn't have been trying them just to get used to them, that was just a side effect of trying to find a good one. LOL

My daughter tried to get me to taste her "latte" the other day. Me: "I don't drink coffee...you know that." Her: "This is latte." Me: "Yeah...fancy name for coffee. It's STILL coffee!" Her: "This is better than coffee." Me: "Get that coffee outta my face or I gonna pour it over youse head." :D