Do you think your parents choice of alcohol affects what you like as an adult?!
Answers: I tend to favour my parents choice of drink which is less of the whiskey and more of the vodka and larger, certainly no wine. are you the same or do you differ?
Probably if your parents educate you in terms of alcohol, and you drink with them. If you just go out and drink with friends when you're young, you're obviously going to be more partial to what your friends drink.
I personally enjoy what my parents drink, but I also drink with my friends and what they enjoy (except Canadian and American beer- that stuff is nasty).
So I guess it's who you drink with that influences your tastes. Also notice that as people get older their tastes in alcohol change, probably because they start to understand it more and develop their own prefrences instead of following those around them.
no ihate gin and red wine
Completely different. My father is an alcoholic and I don't drink at all. :)
i was practically raised in a pub, my dads best friend owned one and we as a family seemed to be there every weekend. I hate the smell of any drink, and I believe it was seeing so much of it and watching all the parents getting really hammered every weekend has made me teetotal.....I can drink a vodka if it is heavily dilluted with orange juice, but I really dont enjoy it.
My mum enjoyed Guinness even while she was pregnant (don't condemn her - I turned out ok and she didn't drink it to excess) and yet I can't stand the stuff!
She also likes vodka on it's own and red wine. I can only mix vodka and red wine to me tastes like, well, s***.
So, no, I don't think parental choice affects everyone, though I'm sure it influences some.
Maybe I'm just weird lol!
Nope... my parents mostly have beer, I usually have mixed drinks.
My parents never drank so I guess I will never know
To Julie: years ago people told pregnant women to drink guiness so don't worry so much!
My father used to drink Newcastle Brown. Mum drank pale ale and both liked whiskey. My drinks are lager and wine, totally different tastes.
Not really. My parents didn't drink at all when I was growing up, and I was the one who experimented with alcohol as a teenager. I still drink occasionally (mostly beer and wine), but my folks only have the very rare glass of wine.
Nope, as a child growing up, my father consumed a lot of beer. I absolutely detest the taste of beer or any fermented alcoholic beverage (beer, wine, champagne).
I only drink distilled alcoholic beverages.
I think in the beginning when you first order a drink at a bar you do tend to pick the same kinds that you may have been around as a child. They are familiar and you want to appear like you know what you are doing. But then you try other varieties and learn your own sense of taste.
Depends, did they end up putting the pacifier in rum, brandy or whatever to help induce sleep?
Well then, there very well could be a lifetime of problems waiting..... we call them yet's. Tastes change, over years. My Parents were non-drinkers, I had a taste for booze, did not care about the taste, was after the affects. see?
no i don't think so because my dad drinks labatt and for liquer he would have tequila and i can't stand tequila and i drink bud light.
No, in actual fact, it's the opposite. That why Bitter and Larger sales go up and down with each generation and. If you fathers generation drank Larger, then yours will drink bitter and vice'versa.
My dad is an alcoholic and it definitely affected me and my choice of whether I will drink or not. I choose not to drink at all. I chose a man that doesn't drink at all. That was the best decision for me and my family. Living with an alcoholic is hell and with any drink that puts a person one step closer to becoming an alcoholic. My dad drank beer. Busch beer at that. I can't stand the smell of it. Now I used to drink wine. I love a blush wine but I decided that I just wouldn't drink any of it because I was loving it a little too much and was starting to see my dad's problem in me.
Crikey, a profound Q at last !
I had two alchoholcs in the family, my Grandad on one side could not keep off the beer, my Granmother on the other side had a bottle of gin "hidden" under the bed.
It skipped a generation, as my parents just have a glass of wine or whatever now and then.
I confess to having to go into re-hab many years ago.A bottle or two of Bacardi every day got silly !
Now I simply don't & cannot drink booze.
It is not easy, and I am told that it is more difficult to stop boozing than stopping heroin.
I have not taken drugs, other than a few spliffs at Uni, so my children know my story.
I think I am a responsible dad, so my sons do not even try a cigarette.
Nor, although the oldest is 18, does he go to a pub regularly, I guess he listened to me about my failings due to alchohol.
All is well now !
Bob
Nope, not in my (or any of my siblings) case. My Dad was always a beer drinker, Mom never drank anything but half a wine cooler and she was buzzed. As adults my oldest sister drinks wine, my other sister will drink basically anything, I prefer mixed drinks- captain and coke, margarita on the rocks, etc, but will drink wine and beer on occasion. My younger brother is probably most like my dad because he enjoys beer, but he also likes scotch which I think is horrid.
Hey!
Always try to be yourself. Don't cultivate the habit of copying others.
Supposing your parents choice of wine is not suitable for your body mechanism, who will you blame?
Its good to be original.
You tend to drink what is your parents drink, so you het use to it.
Different. My dad drinks miller and nasty wine. I drink smooth yummy wine, patron, apple martini, long island, jack and coke, red bull and vodka
not rly.but my parents drink beer,wine and rakia(serbian hard alcohol) and i drink beer/rakia soo dont take my example :P