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How old were you when you became a man... (1 Viewer)

A better measure is when you started drinking alcohol with no mixers (no rum and cokes, vodka cranberry, blah blah blah). Whiskey neat is the measure of a man.

42.

 
Apparently I am Benjamin Buttons, because i ate chunky as a kid, but creamy as an adult.


This.  my mom frequently bought chunky peanut butter when i was a kid..  i thought it was great...  but then we bought creamy for the kids and yeah.. it's better.

Unfortunately we've been constantly downgrading peanut butters for "health" reasons so from regular to natural.. to almond butter.. and now I don't want any nut butter

 
A better measure is when you started drinking alcohol with no mixers (no rum and cokes, vodka cranberry, blah blah blah). Whiskey neat is the measure of a man.

42.
Agree to an extent.   I definitely think it's manly to be able to acquire good alcohols and drink them neat..  i enjoy a good scotch or bourbon.

That said... if I goto the movie I'm taking my flask of bourbon, mixing it with my coke and enjoying a cocktail again...  I'm not turning down a margarita or rum punch when on vacation in the islands/mexico.

 
Agree to an extent.   I definitely think it's manly to be able to acquire good alcohols and drink them neat..  i enjoy a good scotch or bourbon.

That said... if I goto the movie I'm taking my flask of bourbon, mixing it with my coke and enjoying a cocktail again...  I'm not turning down a margarita or rum punch when on vacation in the islands/mexico.
Totally agree - time and place.

A good general rule is - what do you drink when you are at a work function with an open bar, or at a steakhouse on a date?

But if you are sitting on a beach in Jamaica and not having some kind of rum something or other, you're doing it wrong.

 
Agree to an extent.   I definitely think it's manly to be able to acquire good alcohols and drink them neat..  i enjoy a good scotch or bourbon.

That said... if I goto the movie I'm taking my flask of bourbon, mixing it with my coke and enjoying a cocktail again...  I'm not turning down a margarita or rum punch when on vacation in the islands/mexico.
I understand that,  I do.  But the colourful stuff is for the wife. 

I will take a bourbon.  I will enjoy a Mint Julep if it is made for me in a frozen glass and my wife serves it while wearing a sun dress. I will drink sweat tea moonshine in Disney. 

Beyond that, I get pissed if they put a straw in my bourbon.  You don't need to count my drinks and I'm not stirring the bourbon buddy.  Just put it in a glass and go away until there is a finger left and then get me a new one. 

 
Totally agree - time and place.

A good general rule is - what do you drink when you are at a work function with an open bar, or at a steakhouse on a date?

But if you are sitting on a beach in Jamaica and not having some kind of rum something or other, you're doing it wrong.
I will allow small thin ice in my glass when drinking in a beach atmosphere.  That's about the extent of me enjoying an island drink.

 
I will allow small thin ice in my glass when drinking in a beach atmosphere.  That's about the extent of me enjoying an island drink.
I'm 90 percent there.

I really enjoy a Phoenix summer day in the pool with the wife drinking margaritas. But my day-to-day-to-night-to-night drink is some kind of bourbon poured into a heavy glass.

 
I'm 90 percent there.

I really enjoy a Phoenix summer day in the pool with the wife drinking margaritas. But my day-to-day-to-night-to-night drink is some kind of bourbon poured into a heavy glass.
I get it. 

I probably should say that tequila and I don't mix.  There was a late night call,  things were said...we've agreed to keep our distance. 

 
A good general rule is - what do you drink when you are at a work function with an open bar, or at a steakhouse on a date?
an IPA probably if they have it.

The work function with the open bar is going to have some garbage bourbon like Jim Beam..  i'm mixing that ####.

At the steakhouse i'll get the scotch neat.

 
Eventually you reach a point with the peanut chunkiness that you might as well just eat a PayDay.

I heard Christo is a big fan of extra chunky, though.
Yeah, not a fan of extra chunky. My older bro is though. I like chunky, but it depends on my mood and what else I'm putting with it.

 
This.  my mom frequently bought chunky peanut butter when i was a kid..  i thought it was great...  but then we bought creamy for the kids and yeah.. it's better.

Unfortunately we've been constantly downgrading peanut butters for "health" reasons so from regular to natural.. to almond butter.. and now I don't want any nut butter
I've got your nut butter right here...

 
If you look at the grocery store, it's very hard to find crunchy.  It's almost always creamy or extra crunchy.

 
I get it. 

I probably should say that tequila and I don't mix.  There was a late night call,  things were said...we've agreed to keep our distance. 
The dusty Mexican borderlands are where I have just come from and with all due respect and deference, tequila is my preference...

 
The dusty Mexican borderlands are where I have just come from and with all due respect and deference, tequila is my preference...
Gentelmen please do not throw me out ### backwards for hankering for a less civilized spirit...

 
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I understand that,  I do.  But the colourful stuff is for the wife. 

I will take a bourbon.  I will enjoy a Mint Julep if it is made for me in a frozen glass and my wife serves it while wearing a sun dress. I will drink sweat tea moonshine in Disney. 

Beyond that, I get pissed if they put a straw in my bourbon.  You don't need to count my drinks and I'm not stirring the bourbon buddy.  Just put it in a glass and go away until there is a finger left and then get me a new one. 
The Sinatra - 3 fingers and 2 rocks.

 
Apparently I am Benjamin Buttons, because i ate chunky as a kid, but creamy as an adult.
Same but only because my wife does the shopping and 6/7 of us like creamy. I'd prefer chunky but I don't eat enough of it to buy my own container.

 
My grandfather believed that eating peanut butter of any kind was a frivolity for those who still wore short pants and asked their mothers’ permission to go to the moving pictures.  However, on rare occasion he would purchase creamy peanut butter and eat a sandwich with the children with a wink while he told stories of killing Nazis.

He once bought chunky peanut butter by mistake, sighed, and threw it out.  We got no stories that day. 

 
Birth on the chunky PB. 35 on the whiskey neat. 

Another measure: I was somewhere around 28 when I started to care about how to properly grill and smoke foods. Noone ever perfects it, of course. It's the caring (and maybe obsession) that matters. But most of us start out as idiots. Taking a whole bunch of charcoal, dumping it all over the bottom of the grill, dousing it with lighter fluid, and procede without a care in the world about how a fire works. Or worse, just skip that and use a crappy, unmaintained gas grill every few months.

But a some point, our testacles drop, and we start to care about what we're doing. Caring about the importance of a 2-zone fire for grilling, about proper air flow and fuel consumption to keep good fire going at the right temps for a long smoke. I believe @John Bender had a heart-warming tale about this journey recently in the Grilling/Smoking Thread.

 

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