Brews You Can Use: Special Black Wednesday Edition
Ah, the best time of the year: A four-day weekend yawns in front of America, as do an assortment of drinks. This college student tries to assess why people drink so much on Thanksgiving Eve. The writer totally misses the reason and is rather vulgar, but there’s some funny stuff in there.
Why is tonight the biggest drinking night of the year? Because the stars align: it’s the start of a four-day weekend, you’re seeing friends you don’t see as much as you’d like, you feel thankful, the holidays are beginning but this particular one doesn’t call for holy sobriety, the kids are home, there’s nothing to do outside, there hasn’t been a celebratory holiday in months. Am I missing any aligned stars? Feel free to put them in the comments box.
How appropriate that Casablanca premiered on this date in 1942. Bogart was a heavy drinker (see this link for humorous drinking bio).
Strasser: “What’s your nationality?”
Rick: “I’m a drunkard.”
Now get out there and drink a few.
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November 26th, 2008 at 10:33 am
No thanks Eudie, I will pass. I prefer to get wasted on the pumpkin pie, coconut cream pie, carrot cake, pecan pie, and triple chocolate chip cookies. It’ll be a 4 day binge. Do you think that I could get a free pass on “Gluttony” from God this weekend. After all it is a holiday, and I am sure that God is reasonable, right?
November 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am
You know on second thought , I could stop over at your place for a drink with you ,and the Misses. I am a Mom of 8 kids, and it’s going to be a freakin’ long weekend. Do you have any of this stuff on hand?
http://belindabensonsbrain.blogspot.com/2008/11/unbelievable.html
November 26th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Went out drinking last night, which I think should be a bigger drinking day because
a) no one works very hard on the Wed before Thanksgiving so you don’t have to be sharp
and
b) you don’t mess up Turkey day with a hang-over, plus you’re ready to drink again (I’m not a back-to-backer).
November 26th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I took my wife out last night for a few drinks, since I leave her saddled with the kids today for about five hours while I “entertain clients.”
Belinda: Yes, I always have beer on hand. I don’t think my house has been beer-less since I bought it in 1991. I normally keep higher-end beers on hand: Oberon, Leinenkugels, and various microbrews, but I normally have a couple of Miller Lites slummin’ up the fridge, too.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Eric, I usually keep a dozen cinnamon rolls in the freezer, they are hand crafted – a better quality cinnamon roll , using only “cinnamon” from “Saigon” it has a hotter, more robust cinnamony flavor….The only food that we have “slumming” up the freezer are those “off brand” frozen “Taquitos”. I don’t think that they are even part of the “food- chain” anymore.
“Martha Stewart” would simply have a cow if she came to my house.
It’s a great thing that I don’t like to drink , Other wise “Mothers” would point to me in the gutter saying to their children “see what could happen to you”….. I have 8 kids I always go over board with stuff that I like. I am an “uber” Catholic too.
November 28th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
“higher-end” and “Leinenkugels” do not belong in the same sentence.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Re: “higher-end” and “Leinenkugels” do not belong in the same sentence.
My brother-in-law tells me that Leinenkugels used to be a Buckhorn-type beer. I never knew that. I’d heard of Leinenkugels for years, but never drank it. All I know now is, it costs over $24 a case at Sam’s Club. Based solely on price, it’s a higher-end beer (at least on my budget). Whether its ingredients, brewing process, etc. make it higher end, I’ll let others decide.