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.

Tea ((L))

Grandma would enjoy a Manhattan or a Wiskey Sour on special occasions. My other Grandma would go for tea or a Pepsi.

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!!

Sweet tea (very sweet!) or a Coke with lots of ice. She lived a "poison-free" life.

Hahaheehee! This question strikes me as being very funny! I remember my dear sweet Grandmother drinking a beer about 40 years ago!

One of my grandmothers had a glass of sherry every night. She was a very petite lady and looked almost like a doll holding her glass:)

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. :o

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 mom's mom never drank alcohol, so I guess her poison was tea or hot water.

I never saw my dad's mom drink, but I know she smoked unfiltered cigarettes!

My paternal Grandma favored a brandy old fashioned.
My maternal grandmother was Catholic and had 11 children and kept some "Dr. Nervine Tonic" on her top shelf.Hmmmm....

One grandmother: a glass of "Moxie" every day...b/c she swore it kept her "regular"

The other, a shot of brandy before bed.

Grandma is a teetotaler, even at 93 - she deserves a drink by now, but won't have one.

Grandpa, on the other hand, was a Jack Daniel's man.

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.

vodka - stashed everywhere!

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.

Manischewitz wine. Used to give me a few sips. Shudder.

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. :-)

lolfn: I LOVE that about the cocktail hour in the afterlife!!

My grandmother is a wine drinker. She will have an occasional cocktail or beer, and if I make sangria, she is quite happy to have some ;) Her alcoholic beverage of choice is wine though.

My grandfather.