“Hi Mac,

Does anybody enjoy Bud?

Until the micro breweries, American beer was very ordinary.”

Bud isn’t so much ordinary as a child of prohibition. It’s Al Capone beer. American beer was more interesting before prohibition, but once prohibition set in any beer would do. And Bud was definitely any beer. People grew up with it, so they like it.

You see the same thing in Japan. Sake can actually be a very refined product. But during the war years refinement went out the window. People who grew up on the stuff like a big boozy sake.

It’s not traditional, just like Al Capone beer isn’t. But it works.

“Yes, NA wine does exist. Some of it is even drinkable. But I have yet to see really good one.”

NA wine doesn’t have to be good.

It’s highest and best use is for christening ships.

No alcoholism in my family, either.

I barely even knew any alcoholics when I was growing up.

I had a coworker once who told me that, because of so many alcoholics in his family, he had inherited an inability to get drunk unless he drank enough to practically kill him. So he didn’t drink for that reason.

I went through many a cocktail throughout college and after, but now I seldom have more than a glass or two of wine or beer. But I enjoy the taste of both. An occasional margarita or whiskey/coke as well.

But I grew up with a mother and grandparents and assorted family members who never drink and we don’t have alcohol at most family functions so if I don’t drink for weeks or months it doesn’t seem strange at all. I am mostly a social drinker.

Milk is not a food.

It’s a secretion 🙂 .

Not milk.