Sunday, May 03, 2020

Survivors: You drink what they drink

The official pre- and post-apocalypse healthy drinking programme:

  • whisky (2 - you leave the second glass undrunk while you lie in bed for 5 days)
  • bottle of tonic water (don't look in the mirror)
  • champagne (warm)
  • Black & White whisky (straight out of the bottle)
  • Black & White whisky (straight out of the bottle - while you have your broken legs fixed)
  • vodka and tonic with ice
  • Glenfiddich (straight out of the bottle)
  • Elderflower wine ('last summer...')
  • Hey clarse brandy (for aristocrat use only)
  • Brandy or maybe a liqueur - can't tell, Charmian has her hand over the label
  • Glenfiddich
  • Some 70s beer which I would have recognised back in the day
  • Glenfiddich (out of the bottle)
  • 'Scottish' whisky (in paper cups - have another)
  • Aristocrat-grade brandy again
  • Champagne (Moet - out of a bucket of water which I suppose might cool it a little bit, but probly not enough :anne:)
  • 'Grape' wine (you'll be amused by its presumption) - about half a bottle I think, possibly more, there's a demijohn full of it as well
  • More grape wine, just 1 glass this time it looks like
  • Wine again - probably the grape wine from before (toast: 'Civilisation' 'All of us')
  • Not just brandy but cognac, Rémy Martin ('for a special occasion, for a bigger world, better days')
  • Brandy or maybe a liqueur ('FINE' on the label)
  • Cheap-looking pre-plague branded red wine, giving me a headache just looking at the label
  • More of the above
  • What looks like Charles' 'grape' wine again (sipped while you stand urbanely in front of a fireplace, like you probably used to pre-plague)
  • The same again I think (at least one glass each, and then 'is there any more wine, Pet?' 'Is there?')
  • Another glass of 'grape' wine (just casually in the kitchen as if it's no big deal; you've got engineering to think about)
  • More glasses of 'grape' wine out of a pottery jug in the white house ?Friday evening, while drunkenly singing the rude versions of hymns
  • Old reliable grape wine, in the white house kitchen
  • Grape wine out of a bottle while staggering through the woods with hymn books
  • Communion wine (off-screen)
  • Fascist home-made wine with lunch (a white wine for a change - and a whole bottle for you and partner)
  • Gale beer (in rather small glasses)
  • Bathtub gin (out of a jam jar)
  • Beer, elderflower wine and bathtub gin (toast: 'The future' - the gin btw by mistake for wine, getting you so drunk you have to stop playing the guitar and be propositioned by Pet)
  • Medicinal spirits furnished by Pet (Bell's whisky I think, can't be sure though)
  • What looks like home-made red wine
  • Something that Hubert nicked that tastes like gin
  • Sherry, judging by the glasses and the refill - have another
  • Wine for those that like it, but mostly beer, at least 5 pints, and another offered (in a proper pub as if the plague never happened. Toast: Iechyd da!)
  • Whisky (a dram before lunch)
  • Red wine (I presume with dinner, because lunch was fish)
  • Red wine (by candlelight, which is at last a choice again)
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