What was your grandmother's poison?
Jan 20th, 2006, 06:12 PM
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What was your grandmother's poison?
When we all met at my grandmother's house on a Sunday afternoon, she either had a Bailey's in her hand, or a small glass of sherry. She sometimes had a Grand Marnier, or a cocktail - an old-fashioned.
Jan 20th, 2006, 06:35 PM
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I can only remember my grandmother drinking one time. We were having pizza somewhere and she wanted a beer! I remember thinking that was pretty funny and she told me beer tastes good with pizza. She was right!!
Jan 20th, 2006, 06:56 PM
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My maternal grandmother's lifelong poison was sweet iced tea, as she was a Southern lady. I never saw her drink until one night when I went with my grandparents to a senior citizen's dance. I nearly fainted when Grandmother asked for a Margarita on the rocks. I just can't imagine what came over her that night. 
My paternal grandmother wasn't much of a drinker either. Her poison was ice cream, any flavor. When they told her she was borderline diabetic she slowed down on the ice cream. When they told her she was a full blown diabetic, she lost the will to live and left us 10 days later. But she had already lived a full life and she enjoyed just about every flavor of ice cream known to man.
My paternal grandmother wasn't much of a drinker either. Her poison was ice cream, any flavor. When they told her she was borderline diabetic she slowed down on the ice cream. When they told her she was a full blown diabetic, she lost the will to live and left us 10 days later. But she had already lived a full life and she enjoyed just about every flavor of ice cream known to man.
Jan 21st, 2006, 04:59 AM
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when my grandparents picked out their grave spots, they got them on a square with their best friends so they could all meet for cocktail hour in the afterlife.
she loved her manhattans!
my other grandmother was apparently a beer lover but she passed away when i was a newborn.
she loved her manhattans!
my other grandmother was apparently a beer lover but she passed away when i was a newborn.
Jan 21st, 2006, 05:27 AM
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My grandmother was, for the most part, a non-drinker but did keep a bottle of Mogan David "Elderberry" wine in the house and had a small glass occassionally. The stuff was so sweet she could store it for months without affecting the taste.
She didn't like having hard alchohol in the house so my grandfather used to keep a bottle of whiskey hidden and would sometimes pour it into his coffee without letting her know. To this day I am not sure if she ever caught on. I only remember watching my grandfather sipping his afternoon coffee and smiling.
She didn't like having hard alchohol in the house so my grandfather used to keep a bottle of whiskey hidden and would sometimes pour it into his coffee without letting her know. To this day I am not sure if she ever caught on. I only remember watching my grandfather sipping his afternoon coffee and smiling.
Jan 21st, 2006, 06:40 AM
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I didn't know this until he was hospitalized with a broken hip at 93, but my great-grandfather had a shot of Jack Daniel's every morning and every afternoon. I was visiting him in the hospital when a nurse brought him a paper cup with his afternoon "medicine". When I caught a whiff, the nurse smiled and said the doctor said why interrupt a practice that evidently well. He "prescribed" the Jack and they kept a bottle at the nurses station for him.
Her alcoholic beverage of choice is wine though.
