What is your favourite drink (hot or cold)?

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What is your favourite drink(hot or cold)?

Tea
14
14%
Coffee
10
10%
Hot chocolate
14
14%
Beer
13
13%
Sherry
0
No votes
Wine
4
4%
Wiskey
1
1%
Coke
10
10%
Fanta
3
3%
Sprite
2
2%
Juice (specify in post)
6
6%
Milk
7
7%
Lemonade
4
4%
Milkshake (specify what flavor in post)
6
6%
Other(specify in post)
8
8%
 
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Rob Houghton wrote:
floragord wrote:Pink champagne please for my cold option! :D , brut only! and Lapsang souchong or Earl grey for the hot!
I must admit, I feel really common after reading this, lol! :lol: :wink:
Which item caused your frisson!, I'll delete it :lol: - not the pink bubbles pleeeeeeeeeeeze :wink:
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Rob Houghton wrote:Apple juice in UK is a golden colour and often sparkling with a bit of fizz, though there are non fizzy versions also. 8)
I haven't tried the fizz version yet, but it sounds good! 8)
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My favourite hot drink is a hot chocolate, although I drink plenty of tea and coffee in the office at work. As for cold drink, I do look forward to a few beers on a Friday and Saturday :) :wink:
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Do you mean real beer or lager, Deej? :D
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Must admit I'd rather drink mild. 8)
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Normally lager (the soft stuff), John . I can drink real beer but I never last too long with it :lol:
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The flavor of root beer is NOTHING like ginger beer. Root beer gets its flavor from sarsaparilla and sassafras--both plants native to the Americas. And of course, sugar or some other sweetener. It is non-alchoholic, and carbonated. (I am sure there does exist alcoholic and/or non-carbonated root beer somewhere, but that would have to be specified. If you just order a "root beer" you get something non-alcoholic and fizzy).

If you are watching a cowboy movie, and someone goes into a saloon and orders a "sarsaparilla", they are ordering a non-alcoholic drink, basically the same thing as root beer, and probably the other customers in the saloon will try to beat up the guy ordering the sarsaparilla.

You can find ginger beer in the USA, but you really have to search.
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In the USA (and Canada), the difference between "cider" and "apple juice" is that cider is unfiltered and unsweetened.

Yes, if you leave American "cider" alone long enough, it will ferment and turn into what the Brits call "cider", what Yanks call "hard cider". Another term for American cider is "raw cider". i.e. fresh cider that has not had time to ferment.

So basically it is the same drink, just whether you drink it before or after fermentation.

In some languages the word for "wine" works the same way, it is the same word whether or not it has fermented. Like in the Bible when Jesus says to never put new wine into old wineskins. The "new wine" is unfermented, so as it ferments and gives off gas, it will cause the wineskins to burst. So to Jesus, whether or not it is fermented, it is still wine.
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KEVP wrote:The flavor of root beer is NOTHING like ginger beer.
You can find ginger beer in the USA, but you really have to search.
KEVP, I did drink both, root beer over here and ginger beer in Corfe Castle Village in Dorset (we bought it at the Ginger Pop Shop when we met Viv and kept the empty bottles for decoration on top of my Enid Blyton bookcase :)), but IMHO nothing comes even close to the delicious taste of the German malt beer (Malzbier).
My dad didn't drink alcohol, but in the summer months on weekends after working 2 or 3 hours in the garden he always enjoyed a nice cold malt beer. I wonder if that's a beer also known in the UK?
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floragord wrote:Pink champagne please for my cold option! :D , brut only! and...
I forgot to mention my favorite champagne Piper Heidsieck. I tried them all over the years, but that one really made me understand the hype about champagne.
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Lovely choice, Chrissie! Mercier's pink brut is our favourite, but if anyone wanted to drop in with a couple of Taittinger's rose brut reserve I wouldn't turn it down....
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I've heard of Taittinger's, but have not yet tried it.
My German friend Ute was raving (correct term?) about Prosecco, said it tastes even better than champagne, so when we checked out BJ's recently, my husband bought a bottle of Prosecco.
We'll open it at Christmas when his daughter will visit us for a few days :).
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We tried Prosecco for the first time this summer, found it lighter, fresher, more thirst quenching than champagne, I'm sure you'll enjoy the bottle at Christmas! Cheers :D !
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I look forward to try it for the first time, floragord :)!
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