Tim Badrick - down to earth, no nonsense guy from Laidley, Queensland. Guided by logic & intuition. E:-badrick.tim@gmail.com

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
ABOUT BLOODY TIME KAHLUA PRE-MIX BOTTLES MADE AN AUSTRALIAN COMEBACK TO SAVE ME DRINKIN' COWBOY
I dont drink much booze anymore, mainly because i put weight on if i drink too much and it's not much good for my acid prone gut. Up until recently, i was still drinking beer on a fairly regular basis but i decided to give it up because of the calories and carbohydrates matter, two things which you should avoid if you do not want to get a beer gut. When i drink now, i'm very fussy about choosing what goes down the hatch, i basically have decided to stick only to drinking red wine, like a good Merlot, Cab Sav or Shiraz. I'm sure there'll times when a big cold beer with be there waiting for me on a hot summer's day to tempt me, but i am really confident at the age of 37 that i have enough willpower & knowledge of how rotten hangovers are to stick with it this time. Wouldn't touch highly alchoholic spirits with a broom handle, i'm just too sensible to do that now. Plus my gut simply cannot handle that stuff anymore, you only get one of them as well as a liver too. So what alchoholic product would tempt me to go against my own red wine only covenant? Well, i knew what it would be before i began writing this, and it would be the KAHLUA pre-mix bottles which were taken off the shelves of australian liquor outlets many years ago, never to be seen again. There was just something so silky smooth and delirously delicious about the KAHLUA pre-mixes, i could never get KAHLUA and milk which i mixed up myself to taste as good as them - never! I would suspect that competition from cheap and nasty lookalike drinks containing vodka put the more expensive but far superior KAHLUA pre-mixes out of business. I can always remember buying 4-packs of them, it was years ago and even then one of those cost around $12. To buy them singular it worked out they cost around $ 4 a bottle. They were a bit of a girl's drink, i got picked on a bit for drinking them actually from some of my peers, but i didn't care, they were just the best damn alchoholic pre-mix product on the market. I'll keep drinking my red wine but if Kahlua pre-mix bottles re-appear in australian bottle shops again i am going to buy enough of them to fill up my garden shed. I hereby ask the Kahlua company or the bottler in Australia who canned them years ago to be a sport and put 'em back on the shelf so i'm not forced to drink some Cowboy if i ever get tempted to drink the closest thing.
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