Cocktails and Babies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I drink a glass of wine while I'm cooking dinner or with dinner. We think of wine as part of the experience of a good meal. Beer can be too, depending on what we're eating. We don't drink liquor much because its taste interferes with the real taste of food, and eating well is frankly much more important to us than drinking. I want my children to understand the importance of wine within a cultural and food tradition. So drinking wine after the kids are in bed to get a buzz is not for me.

How is this responsive to the OPs question? It sounds like you simply don't enjoy it (alcohol without food). That's not really what the original post is about.

Gosh, PP. It seems like several of the prior responses are equally "not responsive to the OP's question." Why'd you single out mine? Sure, I enjoy a glass of wine or a beer without food sometimes. But I don't drink martinis to get drunk or buzzed when I'm caring for my child. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I'm more than a little past the age when I'd think that was okay for me to do. It's different if I'm out with the girls and not on child duty.

I'm the one who said it wasn't responsive. If you had said you didn't think it was okay b/c you were on child-duty, I wouldn't have responded the way I did. It struck me as a bit off topic because it was more about what goes well with food than whether you should drink when responsible for child-rearing. But you've clarified your position and I apologize.

Many thanks for your apology, PP. Very civil of you. Another poster suspects I'm a boring snob. Very possibly so!

[Anonymous]

Why are folks eye rolling and being snobby about the 116 post - he/she is probably playing devil's advocate and giving you a different view point, an objective one, especially seeing that most of the responses are attacks on other people's posts and not actual advice.

Big deal, the poster is a little more conservative about drinking, maybe she (I'm assuming it is a she) is more sensitive and effected by it.

At least her perspective is more helpful than reading a snarky remark about "hanging out and drinking kool aid on Friday night"

Why do folks have to be condescending if they disagree with a poster's reply?

[Anonymous]

Because the PP's reply was subtly judgemental. I am not a drinker, but was put off by the tone.