Advent Calendar ~ Day 5!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

5. Do you like eggnog?

Yes, but as so many people say, I can’t have much of it at once.  I know of only one person who will polish off glass after glass, and that is my brother.

 

He could do this from the time he was three. Hell, he’d go around and finish off other people’s eggnog.  Lots of other people’s! Other people who were grown-ups, and who had the grown-up eggnog. Which we realized when he couldn’t stop giggling into his yams at dinner.

 

My brother’s past: not actually suitable for minors.

 

“Eggnog” was also, for reasons that escape me at the moment, one of our budgie’s nicknames.  Sometimes this got changed to “Nogz” or “Noggors.” We are a weird family.

Incidentally, what the hell is “nog,” anyway?  That we have to modify it with “egg” suggests that nog does not necessarily have to contain eggs, but I have never heard of any other kind of nog.  Can other things be nogged?  Can you have, say, rhubarb nog, or chicken broth nog, or cottage cheese nog?  God, I hope not.

ETA: Avast and holy toledo, you guys, Wikipedia sez the word eggnog may be a shortening of "eggs-and-grog"!  Do you know what this means?  PIRATE CHRISTMAS DRINK!

Comments

EggNog

[sweetturtlepie.livejournal.com]

Funny you talk of eggnog. I think my 9 year old son drank his weight in eggnog last week. I had some with a little Captian Morgan's in it. So, does that make me a Christmas Pirate? Arggh!

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Aarrgh, matey.

A "nog" is a strong ale, which some say is a possible origin for egg nog. (Yum, raw egg and beer.) When the recipe was brought to the colonies, rum was substituted as the alcoholic addition. Pirate Christmas indeed!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

This year I had eggnog for the very first time ever. It was a soy kind I could have without there being lactose in it, but my b/f confirmed it tasted surprisingly similar to the real thing. I had it with rum, which is fitting for reasons that have already been explained.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, soy eggnog is one of the few soy things that actually tastes like what it's supposed to taste like. (I like some soy things, but the trick is not to expect them to taste like the things they're trying to substitute for. Sort of like how I like Panda Express--it's good as long as you don't expect it to taste like actual Chinese food.)

Did you like it?

[liquidjewel.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine has done some foodcrime experiments with eggnog, and he got a recipe out of the dea

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

interesting... I would have guessed at a "grog" connection myself-- not too many words end in "Ogg". I kinda want to try rhubarb-nog, now that you mention it. I would expect it to taste like the interior of a good cobbler, only liquified and alcoholic. How can you go wrong with that?