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JerkoftheMonth
12/20/08

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I'm drinking eggnog RIGHT NOW! Its with cooked/warmed eggs though, so not really salmonella-risky. Yummmm.....
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hortense
12/20/08

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The solution to this, of course, is to skip eggnog altogether and just drink coffee and Bailey's.
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musicpup
12/20/08

@hortense: Or, you know, skip the coffee altogether. ;)
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@hortense: Also hot chocolate and Bailey's. Or hot chocolate and Kahlua, which became our obsession during finals this semester.
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SpasticFurchild
12/20/08

@hortense: *stares at her non-liquored up coffee*

*stinkeye to Hortense*
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@SpasticFurchild: Oh god yes. I have a hipster-coffeeshop-mocha in front of me, and while I know this is the best mocha I can get around here (seriously delicious, and they do latte art! my mocha has a heart in the foam!) I really want to spike it right now. Except I a) need to finish this paper and b) drove here.
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musicpup
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: You're making me crave hot chocolate right now. I think I need to go make some. And find the booze.
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@musicpup: I love booze threads. Except that on a Satuday afternoon when I'm home for break, booze is not exactly accessible. :(
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musicpup
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: No European raising in your house, eh? Haha. I think I had the advantage of growing up in Germany. Beer and softer alcohol are available at sixteen, everything else at eighteen. (Also, no driver's license until eighteen!) Booze is readily available everywhere.

. . . Why the HELL am I going to the US for college?
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@musicpup: Weird thing- always was offered a sip here or a sip there when I was younger. But when I was in high school, I was pretty hard core straight edge about drinking, so I always said no. Now that I drink, I have a hard time doing it in my parent's house, because I know they were always glad they had a daughter who they didn't have to worry about drinking. They know I drink, and I managed to get a glass of wine at Thanksgiving dinner, but I'm incapable of asking my parents if I can have a drink, and I'm uncomfortable just taking from their liquor cabinet.
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musicpup
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: Oohhh, yes, I was the same. At this point, they just bring out liquors on occasion and I'll take and it's fine. They know I'm responsible; I can't afford to booze up much because I'm a voice major. I hear growly sounds strange in sopranos.
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FourInchHeels
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: Same! They drink wine most nights at dinner, and they enjoy sangria at random times ... but I had them absolutely snowballed for YEARS about my drinking, so I have a hard time letting them see me drink, since I've gotten so used to having to lie and pretend I didn't! I won't ever initiate drinking around here, and I'll only take from the cabinet if they're not home.
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SisterMaryMartha
12/20/08

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Does the stuff you buy in cartons at the grocery store even have raw egg?

I am guessing no.

Chemical flavors and heavy cream!

I like it.

Does anyone else cut it with milk, though?

Eggnog is too thick for me- needs to be thinned out with a nice dose of 1%.

Alcohol in a dairy drink is 13 levels if intestinal hell for me- I can't do it.
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tscheese
12/20/08

@SisterMaryMartha: I can't do booze + dairy. No way, no how. I can manage very small amounts of Bailey's in coffee, but even THAT is a little too much for me.

A few big glasses of cheap white wine before noon on a Saturday, though? Fuck yeah!
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SisterMaryMartha
12/20/08

@tscheese: ooh that sounds wonderful...I do have an open bottle of wine downstairs- and it is after 1pm!
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Red-headed bookworm
12/20/08

@SisterMaryMartha: I cut it with liquor...
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FourInchHeels
12/20/08

@SisterMaryMartha: Don't you worry, dear. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. Just pretend you're drinking with the Eurpoean Jezzies!
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SpasticFurchild
12/20/08

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Sadly, I don't like eggs (unless it's like, baked as an ingredient in bread or some such thing) and the word "nog" just creeps the bejeezus out of me.

Nog.

*shudder*
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musicpup
12/20/08

@SpasticFurchild: Get that word out of your noggin quick!
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hortense
12/20/08

@SpasticFurchild: I am that way about the word "bog," because I read a scary story about "bog people" when I was a kid. Yikes!
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SpasticFurchild
12/20/08

@hortense: I also don't like the words "moist" and "ointment." I don't know if it's the OI sound or the connotations. Hmmm...such deep thoughts for a Saturday. I think I need cookies...

P.S. I think I would like a story about bog people (now). Also, FOG people. Not so much Log people.
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SpasticFurchild
12/20/08

@SpasticFurchild: Dammit. Now I want bacon.

Cause my brain kept going and jumped to...yes...

HOG PEOPLE.

*groan*
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Calraigh
12/20/08

@SpasticFurchild: This is one of the best threads I've ever read anywhere. Thanks all.

Because A) I also hate the word '' nog ''. I hate eggnog by sound and sight alone-I don't think I've ever tasted it.

B) The bog people scare the bejesus out of me too and then I went to see them in a museum in Dublin and it made it worse.

C)I hate the words moist and ointment too! They....make me ...uncomfortable!

D)FOG people is an excellent idea for a scary movie, not least because The Fog is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.

E) LOG people reminds me of that episode of the X-Files where Mulder and Scully get stuck in the woods and they make the very first verbal-remark-that-could-be-construed-as...! After 6 years of unbearable sexual tension!

Also, I love the X-Files. A bit too much.

F) The notion of HOG people is just insane. Like me today!
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Grey_Area
12/20/08

@Calraigh: re F) But what about Hogfather?

Eggnog is disgusting. I'll stick to fermented mare's milk, thank you.
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Calraigh
12/20/08

@Grey_Area: The Hogfather is great- and the tv version is partially great, but really only because I'm in love with Marc Warren and he was amazing as Teatime.

Fermented mare's milk ftw.
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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
12/20/08

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Whenever I think of egg nog, I think of "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
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Brigit
12/20/08

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I don't like eggnog. However I live by coquito ([speakingboricua.blogspot.com]) which is somewhat similar.
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: One of my fondest abuelito memories involves me sitting in the kitchen, watching him strain the coconut for the coquito. Then helping him make dulce de coco afterwards.
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Brigit
12/20/08

@AtomicBellyButton: Those moments are what happy memories are made of. Mi abuela makes arroz con dulce every year and since I was a little kid I would help making it.

She said I'd get a tummy ache if I ate it hot, but I always ate some when she wasn't looking ;)
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Brigit
12/20/08

@AtomicBellyButton: Also, mami is coming to visit me from PR on Monday!! And she brings ... pasteles made by my mother-in-law!!

NAVIDADES, FUCK YEAH!!! !
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: Ha! I was just telling a friend that I rarely eat sweet things when they're warm (even though warm cookies are delicious), because my grandma always told me I would get diarrhea. Oh, abuelita, I miss you and your bizarre old wives' tales.
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: Oh nice! Congratulations. We made our pasteles a few weeks ago. Everyone in the family has a freezer full of them now.
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tscheese
12/20/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: OH DAAAAAAMN. I just googled "pasteles" and OH MY GOD I WANT SOME.
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

@tscheese: Like I said, we've got freezers full. Maybe I can email you some.
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BlondeGoddess
12/20/08

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Salmonella, schmalmonella. My favorite foods all include raw eggs: pasta carbonara, steak tartare (raw meat and a raw egg!).

Living dangerously!
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whats_in_a_name
12/20/08

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Never had eggnog. Kind of worried though because of which relative is hosting the family Christmas this year I'm probably going to want to be at least somewhat drunk which would really freak out my tea totaling mom
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

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According to some friends, it's blasphemy, but I only like the fakey eggnog that comes in a can.
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Ipomoea
12/20/08

@AtomicBellyButton: There's canned eggnog? I thought I was lazy for liking the stuff in cartons. But cans?
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AtomicBellyButton
12/20/08

@Ipomoea:: Ha! Yeah, it might be by Borden or something. Brown can. My mom puts it in a nice pitcher, adds rum, and tells people she made it herself. Everyone always loves it. It's our own secret thing.
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feather_spin
12/20/08

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The alcohol is the best part of eggnog. Usually I'll have eggnog with rum, please hold the nog!
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Jack_Burton
12/20/08

@feather_spin: Nog. Hmmmm.

Does anyone know whether there are other types of nog?

Or pone? I mean, is corn-pone the only type of pone?

These things keep me awake at night.
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ladyM2000
12/20/08

@2pint: There's sweet potato pone, but that's REALLY old.

Like, Civil War old.
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Jack_Burton
12/21/08

@ladyM2000: Thanks! I know I could Google this stuff, but it seems sort of colloquial, and somehow I feel less embarrassed just asking.
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YourScreenplaySucks
12/20/08

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I have never drunk eggnog. I don't think I've ever even seen it. The egg yolks in your rum thing strikes me a really inexplicable, rather gag-worthy combination.
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Kivrin
12/20/08

@Your Screenplay Sucks: Hey, so I'm not the only one! Cool.

I'm not sure how I feel about drinking egg yolks, either.
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YourScreenplaySucks
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Usually, athletes who drink them for health reasons swallow the yolk whole really fast; they don't stop to savor the taste of delicious raw eggs. Plus, with the exception of Coke, anything that dilutes my rum defeats my purpose in drinking it (i.e. cheerful drunkeness).

However, raw cookie dough is manna from heaven. You should get on that.
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samethingwedoeverynightpinky
12/20/08

@Your Screenplay Sucks: I don't know if I've ever had it, but the concept makes me gag a little. Though if I ever had it, it must have been when I was a kid, and thus sans rum. Egg Nog flavored Silk Soymilk though, I can totally get behind.
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Kivrin
12/20/08

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I'm 28 years old, and I've never had eggnog -- probably because I grew up with a mother who (a) didn't drink and (b) was terrified of catching salmonella from raw eggs.

I've also never eaten raw cookie dough.
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theysaidwhat
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Girl, I see the beginning of your New Year's Resolutions right here!
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whats_in_a_name
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Raw cookie dough is the best.
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Kivrin
12/20/08

@theysaidwhat: Yeah...except I'm kind of afraid of it myself! :)
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Annabellie
12/20/08

@Kivrin: I've never had eggnog, but I could live off raw cookie dough.

It's funny because when I was young (and I guess there was less panic over food poisoning) my mom would always let me lick spoons and beaters and stuff when she was baking. Then off of the sudden she wouldn't let me and told me that I would get salmonella and die if she did. But it was too late, I was already an addict.
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Brigit
12/20/08

@Kivrin: If a heaven existed it would be made of raw cookie dough!
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DorothyZbornak
12/20/08

@Kivrin: I'm 30 and have never had egg nog. However, I've eaten copious amounts of cookie dough. I highly recommend it.
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musicpup
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Every time we get the premade Pillsbury cookie dough, we never make cookies. Because I eat the dough before anyone can make anything with it. It is THAT DELICIOUS.

I am with you on the eggnog count though. Mostly, I think, because we're Jewish and Mama always got a little iffy about anything Christmas-related.
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hellosunshine
12/20/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: I just had a mental picture of a big ol' heavenly kingdom up in the clouds made entirely of chocolate chip cookie dough. I WANT TO GO TO THERE.
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Raw cookie dough is the BEST. I've never had egg nog though, and feel no need. I was talking about it with a Christian friend, and when he couldn't even tell me what was in it, we looked it up. Needless to say, the recipe didn't make it any more appealing to this Jewish girl.
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Annabellie
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: I find eggnog gross. Mulled wine and mulled cider on the other hand...
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musicpup
12/20/08

@bitchytexan (hellodarling!): Sign me up!
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@Annabellie: See, those sound GOOD. I've never had either, because being underage severely limits your access to anything alcoholic that isn't shitty beer or cheap vodka. But wine + spices + more booze? Or cider + spices + booze? Sounds fabulous. Raw eggs + booze? Not so much.
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musicpup
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: I'll bet you would have gotten a kick out of our dorm tradition of getting raving drunk on Christmas markets in Germany. Glühwein! It is so farking nasty, but it works.
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@musicpup: I get a kick out of MOST dorm traditions of getting raving drunk. On election night, I managed to get my mostly non-drinker best friend/freshman roommate truly drunk for the first time, in my dorm room, because we did shots for swing states. And I proctored an exam on Wednesday morning hungover from hot cocoa + mudslides the night before, because who gives a shit about their exam, mine were over!
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musicpup
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: That . . . sounds like every morning after the boarding school Christmas party. OH MAN. The hangovers + German essay exams. And it was always German, always at least four hours long and always an essay. Gawd. No amount of Aspirin can get you through that safely.
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Pocahaunted
12/20/08

@CollegeBookworm: Tell that to Tracey Maria Mercado, my alter ego until I turned twenty one last year!

I found someones ID at the bar my boyfriend worked in (totally unethical I know, but weirdly we shared the same birth day and month) and gained access to the wonderful world of properly made ketel one lemon drops!

Bouncers tend only to look at the age, especially if you flash some side boob or something. Yay sideboob!

But yeah eggnog is fucking gross.
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tscheese
12/20/08

@Annabellie: I make gløgg every year. I LOVE it.

I've had homemade and store-bought eggnog. It's nice, I guess, but it's more of a dessert than a beverage to me. It's too rich and cloying for me to drink more than a few ounces of it.
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Annabellie
12/20/08

@tscheese: Yeah, the sweetness and the consistency of it are too much for me... on the other hand, I've recently developed a taste for fruit cake, so there may be hope for me yet with regards to weird Christmas foods.
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tscheese
12/20/08

@Annabellie: I actually really love fruit cake! That's another dubious holiday thing that is ostensibly flavored with rum, but at least it's like...cake and fruit and shit. I would love to have a fruitcake.
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Annabellie
12/20/08

@tscheese: I like fruitcake, but I prefer Christmas fruit breads, like stollen. I found this awesome recipe in an old cookbook for one called the Bohemian Braid that involves two braided loves of fruit bread bakes one on top of the other. Braided bread always tastes better and looks so fancy!
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gold_gato
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Oh baby girl - come over to my house ASAP!
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Kivrin
12/20/08

@gold_gato: Hee, only if you can promise I won't catch salmonella! ;)

I went to a holiday brunch this morning where fruitcake was served. I had to look away -- the mere sight of that stuff gives me dry heaves. BLECH.
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Red-headed bookworm
12/20/08

@Annabellie: I actually like fruitcake, too. Spiced bread soaked with liquor? Why sure! Egg nog is good, too. Mmmmm, egg nog...
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Liz11685
12/20/08

@Kivrin: You poor thing. Eggnog was something I only tried in high school (I drink the soy variety), but cookie dough is the best! I am actually eating the cookie dough poptarts right now!
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Jack_Burton
12/20/08

@Kivrin: Nothing beats gnawing on a nice chilled log of cookie-dough.
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theysaidwhat
12/20/08

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I think that it's safe to say that if you're drinking eggnog, you aren't wondering if it's a 'health food'. But good to know the cholesterol will get me before the salmonella!
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tscheese
12/20/08

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You had me at "1 qt bourbon, 1 pnt rum."
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