Trends Are Catching Up To Me

[millring]

qz.com/266542/happy-autumn-hard-cider-is-all-the-rage-right-now/



I was in the grocery store yesterday and wandered into the alcohol section -- a trip I take on occasion, but almost always come up empty. That is, I look for hard cider (I like Woodchuck's amber or granny smith, but won't buy the sampler case because there are two of the sampler that I don't like). And there's almost never any hard cider to choose from.

Not so yesterday. There were four different brands of hard cider....AND....six packs of Woodchuck's amber.

[drlj]

No wonder you got so drunk yesterday. You should send a check for the bail money I put out. Make it out to CASH.

[Doug]

Store bought hard cider.  Yuk

[billhammond]

I keep meaning to visit this place, but have not.


sociablecider.com/our-apples/

[RickW]

We get one from South Africa, called Savannah, that Susan loves. I'm just not a cider guy. But a nice dry cider can be a decent thing on the right day.

[Marshall]

In High School I had a job as a stock boy at the local Jewel grocery store. One day I was working with a friend, Frank, filling shelves. We got our lunch break at the same time. So, we decided to buy a quart of apple cider to share with our baloney sandwiches. . . . , We drank the whole quart. About a half hour later, we're back stocking shelves and all of a sudden I look up at Frank the same time he looks at me. "I gotta go !" he says. And he hustles up to the single employee toilet. I say, "Hurray up!" About 5 minutes later I couldn't stand it any longer and I ran upstairs to the john and POUNDED on the door. "Let me in, Frank!"

That was a rough one. Haven't drank more than a sip or two of apple-whatever in the last 50 years.


(PS - You might say it caught up with me !)