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!