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06-02-2001, 10:48 PM
|  | Bush Babe | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Lexington, Kentucky
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OK so here I sit on a Saturday night alone, quite possibly the only person home alone in the tristate area. I just hopped over to Meijer and bought some Coke. Which reminded me of when my mom told me once that as a little girl she used to put peanuts in her Pepsi. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
So, anyone got any other kooky drinks they'd like to share? I would like a mix of nonalcoholic as well as alcoholic. I am bored with my Coke and want some cool ideas!!
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06-02-2001, 10:50 PM
|  | domestic goddess | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Atlanta, GA
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yep, peanuts in a bottle of coke was a common drink/snack in the mills of North Carolina when my dad was a child- it was a way to get a drink and a snack and still only use one hand so you could continue to work. It's yummy with Dr Pepper too... |
06-02-2001, 11:06 PM
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How about Crystal Light Lemonade and Jack? Hey, it taste good and has less calories.
Did the peanuts and coke thing a lot when I was a kid. |
06-02-2001, 11:08 PM
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I've been known to use licorice sticks as straws for drinks.
- red licorice for white milk
- black licorice for diet coke
But, I haven't made too many odd drink combinations. Although there was the time I made an unnamed alcoholic mixture for a cottage weekend. I took an empty water bottle and filled it with various amounts of liquers - Bailey's Irish Cream, Amaretto, Kahlua, and possibly some godiva's ... nobody really remembers 
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06-02-2001, 11:19 PM
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My grandmother always used to make a really weird, but extremely tasty punch. Get Pepsi (regular, not sugar free, and Coke will not do) and mix it with equal parts pineapple juice.
It sounds really bad but it was something I've always loved.
I'm about to hit my Mead I brought back from my trip. Fermented honey is our friend. =) |
06-02-2001, 11:47 PM
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I ate at Saltgrass Steakhouse tonight with my wife and sister-in-law and the bartender looked at me funny when I put peanuts in my Coke.
"You're not from around here," I asked the bartender.
"I've been here 13 years," he said, incredulous.
"Well, what have you been doing all that time? I've been here 13 and I do this all the time now. Not bad for an old Chicago Jew, eh?"
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06-02-2001, 11:48 PM
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Pepsi and pineapple juice? I could see that, but it sounds awfully sweet.
My mother use to do the peanuts and Coke thing, too.
I still use Twizzlers as straws every time I go to the movies.
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06-03-2001, 12:11 AM
|  | Resident Ballerina | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Austin, Texas
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Oh, File! I absolutely  the Salt Grass!
As for me and my taste in kooky drinks, I like to put a little Hershey's Chocolate Syrup in my Coke (not Pepsi) now and again.
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06-03-2001, 12:39 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by vein
I'm about to hit my Mead I brought back from my trip. Fermented honey is our friend. =) | I can't tell you how jealous I am of you right now. Isn't fermented honey everyone's friend?
On a different note, I always thought that the peanuts and soda deal was common place, although I have to admit, I did learn it from my Gram?
Anyone ever taken a peppermint stick, broke off the ends (so that it is hollow and you can suck on it), and then jam it into an orange and suck? A little thing I learned awhile ago and my nephew just loves it. We've tried a couple variations on the sticks but it's up to your taste.
OH, also, is it a freaky thing or did anyone else mix milk and Pepsi like Laverne? 
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06-03-2001, 08:13 PM
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In elementary school, we got chocolate milk every Thursday. (Now kids get a choice everyday, which is why America is going to Hell in a handbasket.) Milk was 7 cents and you could get a little carton of vanilla ice cream for a nickel. We'd put the ice cream in a water glass and fill it with chocoalte milk for a "float." One of your better 12 cent drinks.
Once we did a dreadful thing to a good friend. She lived for chocolate milk day and her float. Anita got up to get some thing she'd forgotten like maybe a straw, and while she was gone we switched her float for one made with chocolate milk and mashed potatoes.
Our mashed potaoes were truely grim, and we suspected talcum powder was a major ingredient. Poor Anita nearly choked on the stuff and barely spoke to us for a week, despite the fact that we had a real float waiting for her after the trick.
In Junior High and High School, a local favorite drink was a cherry 7-UP with coffee cream. Weird, but not bad. And we did the peppermint stick thing, too, but in lemons instead of oranges.
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