How do rich people drink vodka (at home)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are making martinis. Or mules, or cosmos, or mixing it with cucumber and mint.

I don't drink vodka, but I do drink a good amount of gin. I make a martini, or I add a little lavender or elderflower liquor.

How many vodka cranberries can you drink a day? Doesn't seem like something you can drink daily, let alone multiple times a day. Tons of sugar, your teeth will be red, and it would just get plain old, no?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Snobby wasp lawyer I knew used to only drink vodka and orange juice at every event I saw him at. I can't see anyone thin doing that all day though, because it's so much sugar?

PP. Alcoholics have messed up nutrition, hunger cues, eating habits, etc. If the majority of your calories are booze and little else, of course you’ll be thin.
Good times though as alkies age; they become rail thin but have bloated abdomens and begin to look jelly bean-shaped, especially as they lose muscle tone and their skin sags and bags.

Lara Flynn Boyle has this look, although I have no idea if she’s an alcoholic. She looks like a typical aging female alcoholic. Many smoke and drink coffee and eat very little.

[Anonymous]

Vodka mixes w anything and is easy to hide in other drinks so alcoholics love it. Alcoholism doesn’t discriminate among young and old, rich and poor, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are making martinis. Or mules, or cosmos, or mixing it with cucumber and mint.

I don't drink vodka, but I do drink a good amount of gin. I make a martini, or I add a little lavender or elderflower liquor.

How many vodka cranberries can you drink a day? Doesn't seem like something you can drink daily, let alone multiple times a day. Tons of sugar, your teeth will be red, and it would just get plain old, no?

Notice that none of the drinks I mentioned were vodka cranberry, or any other juice mix? Sure, there is some cranberry in a cosmo, but maybe an ounce at the most.

[Anonymous]

Don’t know if I’m rich enough by your standards, but vodka is the only liquor I keep on hand at home and I’ll periodically have a drink or two. It’s always a vodka with seltzer water and lime.

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It’s supposed to be neat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know if I’m rich enough by your standards, but vodka is the only liquor I keep on hand at home and I’ll periodically have a drink or two. It’s always a vodka with seltzer water and lime.

This. Vodka and soda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they are making martinis. Or mules, or cosmos, or mixing it with cucumber and mint.

I don't drink vodka, but I do drink a good amount of gin. I make a martini, or I add a little lavender or elderflower liquor.

How many vodka cranberries can you drink a day? Doesn't seem like something you can drink daily, let alone multiple times a day. Tons of sugar, your teeth will be red, and it would just get plain old, no?

Notice that none of the drinks I mentioned were vodka cranberry, or any other juice mix? Sure, there is some cranberry in a cosmo, but maybe an ounce at the most.

Apologies. I read cosmo as vodka/cranberry.

[Anonymous]

My wife got a set of copper mugs this year at her office Christmas party, Moscow Mule types. We decided we wanted to try them out and realized we had no vodka in the house (we’re not big into spirits, just some beer and wine). I had to go to the ABC store to pick up a bottle. I was overwhelmed at the choices, so I picked Tito’s because my alcoholic brother likes it. Twenty dollars.

And the mules were delicious.

[Anonymous]

My in laws are rich by all definitions. They used to drink a lot of red wine and champagne. Then my extraordinarily sweet, fun, amazing mother in law got diabetes. Switched to vodka soda and a half lime. It’s actually a great drink.

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I don't know that it has much to do with being rich, as much as being alcoholics. Vodka is definitely a preferred drink. I think it gives the desired effect quickly, and has less odor than whiskey, etc. My mom would start with wine, and move onto secretly drinking vodka. It's much harder to secretly drink whiskey.

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Anonymous wrote:Drunks love their vodka.

My late father who died from alcohol-related dementia and was an alcoholic his entire adult life mixed vodka with orange juice and drank from a huge plastic tumbler all day- this way he tell his doctor, my mother, his adult children and even his neurologist that he “only” had two drinks a day. Yes, this was in his medical records in narrative form.

My dad would often start with red wine, then head out to the liquor store in the early evening to buy a “family size” bottle. Let’s just say his regular purchase was a large bottle of vodka that we’d keep in our house and it might last over a year - used for an occasional mixed drink or maybe if we’re entertaining.

My father was highly functional which was maddening; we were the last family you’d ever think had a stumbling drunk, nasty, abusive drunk father. My dad instead kept getting promoted and ended up being top in his niche field. He was publicly lauded and considered brilliant and innovative.

And another thing; drunks love vodka because supposedly it doesn’t have an odor when mixed in drinks and they *think* it also doesn’t give their breath a “boozy” odor; instead, excessive vodka tends to emanate from your pores as you sweat it out giving the person a distinctive (and gross) fermenting, mildewy smell. Tough to describe but when I smell it on people I assume they’re alcoholics.

Also because vodka is clear and light it is easy to smuggle in a thermos or even a clear water bottle. My dad used to pour it in his coffee, twist the lid on his thermos bottle and could drink all day at the office.

Oh I know that day drinking BO smell from college. It’s pretty gross.

[Anonymous]

Had a couple of Grey Goose and Simply Orange 50 (their "half the sugar" watered down orange juice) cocktails last night. Pretty good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I drink expensive vodka straight in a shot glass.

This, but in a tumbler instead of shot glass.

[Anonymous]

when the soviet union was more an enemy, a classmate used to bring stoli when he came back from moscow