Jan 12 2010
Grown up drinks
When I go out a lot of times I get coffee. I don’t much like coffee but it seems like a ‘grown-up’ drink to me. Being nearly 40 I feel like I should have grown-up drinks when I go out. And unless I put an ungodly amount of sugar and an obscene amount of cream in my coffee I don’t finish it. Case in point – I went to Barnes & Noble the other day to kill time while the girl child and 3 friends when to see a movie. I got a coffee from the in-house Starbucks. Some sort of White Chocolate Mocha thing. It sucked ass. I didn’t finish it.
If I had gotten hot chocolate I would have happily sipped on it until it was gone.
But I got the sucky coffee and sat with it in my hand because, well, it’s cool to drink Starbuck’s coffee right?
And tea – drinking tea, to me, is grown up. My mom always drank tea. Carried tea bags in her purse so she wouldn’t be without if we happened to be somewhere that didn’t have tea. Mom drinks her tea with a bit of cream and a bit of sugar. Me? I think most tea is nasty. Except for Bigelow Vanilla Chai tea. Which rocks! With way too much Spenda and 2% milk. I slurp with satisfaction as hard core tea drinkers everywhere shudder and roll their eyes. But I don’t care because, damn it, I like it!
Strangely, drinking most alcohol is not ‘grown-up’ to me. Drinking wine is a grown-up thing to do though. I hated wine as well but when on a tour of the Fingerlakes with my hubby and some friends a thousand years ago because I wanted to be grown up and accepted and do the ‘cool’ thing. Amazingly to me I found quite a few wines that I liked. That I still like. And most hard core wine drinkers shudder and roll their eyes while I ship my sweet wines. Do I care? Nope. Cause I like Red Cat (in the 1.5 liter bottle please) and Ravat 51. And I drink them in excess with friends.
Are there drinks you have that you see as ‘grown-up’? Or am I just a freak of nature? *grin*