Thatās right, itās Christmas time! Donāt miss our Christmas Happy Hour at Carnegieās, from 7:30 til late on Thursday, December the 14th. Most beer and standard drinks will be $100, as usual, and Tpe Bob has promised to look into the possibility of some egg nog drinks to get us into the mood.
Carnegieās is at 100 Anhe Road, Section 2, Taipei.
Is egg nog with brandy or rum and a little nutmeg a North American thing? Is egg nog itself a North American thing? If nobody is interested, Iāll tell Bob to never mind about the egg nogā¦
As it says in the link, it probably originated in Europe. Iāve heard of posset before, but never knew anyone who ever drank it. Never heard of eggnog until I came here and started mixing with the colonial plebs.
My dad used to buy a bottle of this filthy stuff called advocaat at Christmas because it was the only booze my granny would drink. It was milky thick and yellow and utterly disgusting.
I had eggnog for the first time at JBās last Christmas. It was thick and yellow and milky and eggy and utterly utterly foul ā like drinking custard.
Pour it on your Christmas pudding or pass it off to any stupid Americans is what I say.
A waste of perfectly good booze.
Normally we can get pretty much any booze we want but egg liqueur or advocaat is impossible to find and we havenāt had a bottle on the shelf for a long time. If anyone knows where to get some, let me know. Otherwise we will just have to come up with a drink called ānogā. I am open to suggestions as to what that might consist of.
Actuallyā¦while I am having this train of thought, why donāt some of you come up with a concoction that we could unveil at the Happy Hour. It has to be original, easy to make and potent.
You can call it what you want. The winner can go behind the bar to make it and serve it to the rest.
While I donāt drink eggnog, Iāve made it for my secretaries in the past and they all loved it.
Just a noteā¦ its a fairly complicated drink to make, and I wouldnāt want to try making it at the bar. Its one of those drinks that needs to be made before the party.
[quote=āTpeBobā]Normally we can get pretty much any booze we want but egg liqueur or advocaat is impossible to find and we havenāt had a bottle on the shelf for a long time. If anyone knows where to get some, let me know. Otherwise we will just have to come up with a drink called ānogā. I am open to suggestions as to what that might consist of.
Actuallyā¦while I am having this train of thought, why donāt some of you come up with a concoction that we could unveil at the Happy Hour. It has to be original, easy to make and potent.
You can call it what you want. The winner can go behind the bar to make it and serve it to the rest.
Might be fun.
Bob[/quote]
Huh? Whyād you need to find special bottles of alcohol?
I donāt think advocaat is quite the same as what these North American folk are thinking about
Only way to be able to serve it would be to make it in your wonderful kitchen?
TpeBob, you should follow one of the recipes lupillus provided, and make up at least a couple gallons of the stuff. The ingredients are quite simple, and you can prepare it in advance in bulk.
:bouncy: I hope a lot of the new posters will come Thursday. Also, lurkers and older posters who have been reluctant to show show up before.
Donāt get me wrong, I love seeing our regulars, but weāve seen each other tons of times already, we get together between these things, too (just this morning I bumped into Funk500 and IrisHstu at my gynoāsā¦ for the hundredth time, guys, we dontā have the same parts! You go to see another guy for that stuff, ok?! )
Anyway, you know what I mean. The more the marrier and all that.
Oh, and if any ladies are reluctant to come for the obvious reasonsā¦ Ladies, these guys are not scary at all (I sometimes wish they warranted a serious warning, but unfortunately theyāre only scary online. IRL theyāre real pussycats.)
Damn. Why didnāt you all tell me before tonight? I skipped getting a haircut today because I didnāt think Iād see any of you heathens until next week. Oh wellā¦ I suppose itāll be worth it anyways. Thursday night will be the longest my hair will be for the rest of my duration in Taiwan and the last night that I will have chemically straightened hair until I get tired of having naturally curly hair (usually about 8 months or so, according to tradition). Maybe someone can shave my head tomorrow night and save me the trip to Aveda on Friday?
The only eggnog I remember is the stuff my parents used to buy in cartons at the supermarket. I remember loving it, but I was a kid then; it may be too sweet now.