What are you drinking right now?

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 20 Jan 2007, 19:07

Marya wrote:
Sandra wrote:Was at the Police Club in York Place last night...... had a bit of a swally.
Why have I got such a feeling of deja vue?

You mean:

Sandra wrote:last night...... had a bit of a swally.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 20 Jan 2007, 19:26

Actually, as I was swigging a glass of vino while cooking the tea, I thought:

nearly everyone on POL wrote:last night...... had a bit of a swally.

That could be the POL motto!!

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 22 Jan 2007, 01:00

Tea, nice mug of

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 25 Jan 2007, 00:36

A rather nice Australian Shiraz.
We bought a few Yaldara estate red wines around Christmas as Mr Soupy and his family had lived near there for a while ( Barossa Valley )

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 25 Jan 2007, 10:49

Tea and Orange juice

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 25 Jan 2007, 19:14

Sandra wrote:Tea and Orange juice

together?

Nice cup of mint tea (I go through a lot of mint tea)

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 25 Jan 2007, 20:12

A nice bottle of South African Chenin Blanc from Scotmid. V nice it is too.

And just had a microwave box of "Hokkien Noodles with a Green Curry Sauce", like Pot Noodles but with a bit more class.

Can you guess that Sandra's out tonight?

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 06 Feb 2007, 23:42

Green and Blacks Maya Gold drinking chocolate.
It's yummy

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 06 Feb 2007, 23:44

I didn't know they made that as a drink! Must look out for it.

I've just eaten half a bar of Green and Black's Maya Gold, which is a bit much really

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 06 Feb 2007, 23:47

rapunzell wrote:
I've just eaten half a bar of Green and Black's Maya Gold, which is a bit much really

Nah, never too much!

Found the G&B drinking choc in Tescos, said it was "new". Very similar in taste to the choc bar.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 06 Feb 2007, 23:49

SoupDragon wrote:Green and Blacks Maya Gold drinking chocolate.
It's yummy

Where do you live? Do you want me to bring my own soya milk?

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 07 Feb 2007, 14:40

Peppermint tea - lovely

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 07 Feb 2007, 20:36

Lots and lots of water.I am radioactive just now so hope it works, and I will be normal again soon.

Had the first test done today,next one Monday

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 07 Feb 2007, 20:39

Good luck Izzie, we've got our fingers crossed for you!

magbagpuss · Post by **magbagpuss** » 07 Feb 2007, 20:54

Kalua n diet coke , ice , lots of , lime slice of, put glass in fridge for 1/2 hour . WOW

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 09 Feb 2007, 00:21

Hope it all goes well Izzie

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 15 Feb 2007, 22:31

every (or nearly) Friday night I have posted on this topic in the hope that my online drinking bud ECM would appear.........

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 17 Feb 2007, 02:45

Just back from night out, been drinking magners!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Feb 2007, 11:09

Good news for female users of Nelson's face cream Tea 'controls female hair growth' and a word of warning from the same source for some of you male mint tea drinkers out there :

According to the researchers, extracts of spearmint plant (Mentha spicata Labiatae) had been reported to reduce libido in men in a town called Isparta in southwest Turkey, possibly due to reduced androgen hormone levels

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 20 Feb 2007, 13:05

But we are drinking peppermint tea!!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Feb 2007, 15:10

Poppy wrote:But we are drinking peppermint tea!!

Pah!

Very clever biochemist with large cranium capacity wrote:The essential oils of peppermint and spearmint are distinguished by the position of oxygenation on the constituent p-menthane monoterpenes. Peppermint produces monoterpenes bearing an oxygen at C3, whereas spearmint produces monoterpenes bearing an oxygen at C6. Branching of the monoterpene biosynthetic pathways in these species is determined by two distinct cytochrome P450s that catalyze the regiospecific hydroxylation of ()-4S-limonene at C3 or C6 exclusively. cDNAs encoding the limonene-3-hydroxylase from peppermint and the limonene-6-hydroxylase from spearmint have been isolated, shown to be 70% identical at the amino acid level, and functionally expressed. A combination of domain swapping and reciprocal site-directed mutagenesis between these two enzymes demonstrated that the exchange of a single residue (F363I) in the spearmint limonene-6-hydroxylase led to complete conversion to the regiospecificity and catalytic efficiency of the peppermint limonene-3-hydroxylase.

so there.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 20 Feb 2007, 15:47

But what about that 30%? Could make all the difference!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 20 Feb 2007, 15:50

Well it probably means your moustache will stay but the beard will go . As regards what it could do to Plug's libdi-do I'll leave that to your own reckoning

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 20 Feb 2007, 15:54

Anyway, the brainbox's quote fails to mention hormones...............

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 20 Feb 2007, 17:41

Was it just the one town affected by mint tea?
The quote didn't actually say they were drinking the tea did it.
A hot cuppa in the lap would certainly reduce the libido

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 20 Feb 2007, 17:45

SoupDragon wrote:Was it just the one town affected by mint tea?

Yes and it was in Turkey...probably just burd flu

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 20 Feb 2007, 17:50

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 23 Feb 2007, 23:57

several glasses of wine...

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 24 Feb 2007, 00:01

Sounds nice.
See Tesco got 20% off wine if you buy 6 bottles or more. Would stock up but due to diets/ "healthy living" we've still got a full wine rack

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Feb 2007, 00:02

SoupDragon wrote: we've still got a full wine rack

Lucky you, don't think we ever have a full wine rack

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Feb 2007, 00:04

SoupDragon wrote:Sounds nice.

started on Jacobs Creek Chardonnay which was open, went onto wolf blass now on prosecco... hic

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 24 Feb 2007, 00:14

Haven't Jacobs Creek risen in price in recent years? Became more popular

We started drinking it years ago before it was really popular, along with other Oz wines, purely because Mr Soupy had been living in Australia and thought they were great even though the wine snobs frowned upon the New World stuff
He recounts coming back to their house out there,laden with the produce of Yaldara estates almost breaking the car axle and still having change etc etc . It WAS the 70s

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Feb 2007, 00:24

Just like Spanish wine, some wines we bought in Spain were about Â£3-4.

Haddows are selling same for Â£10.99 plus

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 24 Feb 2007, 11:59

Sandra wrote:Just like Spanish wine, some wines we bought in Spain were about Â£3-4.

Haddows are selling same for Â£10.99 plus

Good excuse for a trip to Spain!!!!!

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 24 Feb 2007, 15:08

arachnid wrote:
Sandra wrote:Just like Spanish wine, some wines we bought in Spain were about Â£3-4.

Haddows are selling same for Â£10.99 plus
Good excuse for a trip to Spain!!!!!

Indeed!!