Tim Cook wrote:
> So I just got back from being taken to a bar by housemate.  My first 
> encounter with "drinking".  The initial drink was a shot of Jaeger, vile 
> licorice-plus-rubbing-alcohol tasting thing, which the bartender paid 
> for on the condition that I actually down the shot...followed up by 
> another half-dozen various mixed drinks concocted by a very attractive 
> gal (one of the drinks, with tequila, I couldn't even tolerate more than 
> a sip, to entice me she held the orange slice in her mouth, but even 
> then it wasn't sufficient to get me to do the whole thing).  Ended up 
> only being charged $7 and change; apparently she footed the bill for 
> most of it because it was my first time.
> 
> Personal reactions: the initial sensation when the alcohol first hit my 
> body, as it's rather...unique, then immediately thereafter when a sort 
> of warm shuddering hit my muscles, particularly arms, stomach and back, 
> then quite a bit later, which is where I stopped drinking, when I 
> started feeling a kind of dull lethargy that was my body beginning to 
> process the stuff.  So as far as I can tell, I left the bar sober. 
> Housemate was complaining that I'm too uptight, that I'm thinking about 
> it too much and killing the buzz, that I need to relax...
> 
> Meh.

I quit drinking 18 years ago, but even then I never liked anything 
stronger than wine.  Distilled liquor always reminded me of cough syrup, 
and I just didn't like it that strong.

The whole deal with cocktails is an American thing, and is the product 
of the Prohibition era, when bootleg booze tasted so horrible that they 
cut it with fruit juice to make it tolerable.

Regards,
John

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