I reckon I've tried a little of everything at one time or another in my lifetime, and tastes do change over the years. I used to be a Budweiser beer drinker. Now I keep a few Shiner Bock beers in the shop refrigerator; won't drink 6 a year; only have a cold one when I get hot and sweaty working in the yard. I know bourbon or just the Tennessee and Kentucky whiskeys are supposed to be popular, but I just never liked the taste. When we had a house with a wet bar, I had a bottle of Jack Daniels that set there for 11 years; no one we knew liked that stuff. Now I like to keep a bottle of Crown Royal on hand; just have a drink occasionally in Coke Zero. Before I was 21, I remember an older friend telling me that Scotch was an acquired taste; that no one liked it at first. But I was 25 when a neighbor offered me a Johnny Walker Red Label scotch and water, and I decided with one taste that if I were going to drink whiskey, scotch would be the one. In recent years, I learned of single malt scotch and that's what I keep on hand; again only occasionally have a scotch and water.
What I DO drink, not every day, but most afternoons before supper, is a glass of Franzia or Carlo Rossi Sangria.
As a young police officer, I learned that the wine of choice among the street people (homeless alcoholics) was Thunderbird. I had occasion to taste it once and figured I'd just as soon drink kerosene. But in the late '60s or early '70s the wine of choice changed to MD 20-20. I don't know why it changed from the white Thunderbird to the red MD 20-20, but I've always wanted to taste MD 20-20; just not enough to buy a bottle, since I'm pretty sure I would not like it.:laughing:
