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@dicki
oh dear god, what did the two young barstaff in the hope and anchor with their two halfs of different bitters unleash in this thread. it's like 100 flashbacks to all the times i was sick through drink growing up.
my worst faux pas as a kid was to fill an empty shampoo bottle ( not very well washed out so there was still a bit of head and shoulders taste to the following cocktail ) with some drambuie and some creme de menthe, it was the only container i could find to transport some alcohol from the parents liquor cabinet down to the big field by the river. and i didn't want to take everything from one bottle as the parents might have sussed some was missing. i had it in my mind i was doing some fancy cocktail cause i'd seen stuff like that on tv, crockett or tubbs opened up a world globe liquor style cabinet full of all manner of different coloured drinks. and pour themselves a drink , with the exception of a dash of head and shoulders obvs.
don't think i've drunk either liquer since.
malibu and pineapple round here was one of the first drinks i remember imbibing cause we were posh like and it tasted like summer holidays in the costa del sol. and at 50+ now it took me 30 years to eventually get round to drinking a bit of merrydown having had my first few alcohol experiences drinking that down by the swings in the town i grew up in. eventually got over the fear and that taste.