Amaros are liqueurs, always sweet and usually bitter. Tuaca is the one we call “the winter Aperol” in my house.

What are you on about? Why should people who don’t want kids be forced to forgo sex?

If someone anticipates birth control being outlawed, stockpiling it is a reasonable response.

I would recommend an IUD though.

No, the recipe is in the non-alcoholic pinned thread (it’s about as alcoholic as kombucha) but it’s fermented and sort of pineapple-adjacent, there’s no actual fruit in the finished product, I don’t know if that would also inactivate what bothers you.

Oh my gosh that reminds me - the Golden Crown by Katherine Bouchel is soooo good too, that uses roasted pineapple syrup, whiskey, mezcal, and chartreuse. Probably too fancy for a batch cocktail but the syrup would be a good way to use the pineapple if you do make tepache and can’t eat the fruit raw; tepache just uses the peels.

I cannot imagine that. The people I know who voted for Trump are either victims of the right wing media bubble, or worried about very specific individual issues - one about guns, one about gas prices, plus I think low information voters who have short memories, I heard a lady on the radio saying “he’s a businessman and I am an entrepreneur, I think he will be more friendly to business”.

Here, the leftmost are mostly better informed, I think.

I am registered unaffiliated because I’m left of our Democratic party, not right of it. I can’t be the only one. So some of those independents are progressive.

I do make fancy cocktails for Thanksgiving but Christmas is more wine or bourbon here.

Strongly agree with coquito, yum. Cranberry stuff seems Christmasy, my mom used to make (besides the wassail) a sparkling cranberry vodka punch. It’s funny I never really thought of her as a cook, or much of a drinker but she did make punch or sangria for holidays.

Tepache is also a nice Christmas drink, pineapple cinnamon.

Whiskey and amaretto, strong but that seems a nice holiday flavor, a Godfather or similar might be a good one to pop in the freezer.

My mom made something like this but called it wassail.

Fair enough. I just talk to a lot of women, all are aghast no matter their race. Men are less so, though many are disappointed, they are more blase.

What the fuck? Where? Not where I am.

We are here for you at !cocktails@lemmy.world if you would like to drown your sorrows in something delicious.

Not sure. For me, I have a large family, and do yoga classes in person, work at the office, not from home, go to get coffee always at the same place so see the same people, and have need for more alone time than I ever get, so it hasn’t been an issue yet. Transportation would help a lot here. I used to see old people at aerobics classes downtown when I did those, so group exercise I do think is valuable.

Not to get political but not sure what will happen now with the large family, as Florida gets ever more backwards the kids may get more distributed in other places. We have a house I love in a neighborhood I love, in a blue-leaning city, and don’t want to abandon it. They are second generation but instead of the progress I saw during my adulthood and their childhood, but as they reached adulthood now the pendulum is swinging back.

2,2,1,1,1,1

Having seen my mom, and now the mom of my ex, devolve into dangerous drivers, I will trust my kids on this. If they say I am not driving well, I will not drive. Luckily everything is nearby, I haven’t needed to drive much since we moved close to my work.

Walking distance to hospital, doctor, restaurants, dentist, bank is online, driving has become a convenience not a need, thankfully.

We need to give road tests every 5 years or so, to everyone who holds a driving license. My road test was literally more than 40 years ago, how do they even know I can still drive safely?

The environment. That’s really it, everything else is a lower priority to me, because fuck over the world and you have nothing. As far as what might be possible to do with laws and government actions, I would like to see oil taxed like a vice tax, money thrown towards clean energy & transportation and accounting rules changed to include all costs now “externalized”. So if you dump waste in a river, the cost of cleanup falls always entirely on the company that dumped, besides the penalties and jail time, if you are cutting down old trees, the cost is not just the planting of a young tree, but includes cost of time to grow it, but also just that these costs need to be in the prices of goods, as now there is distortion. Clean things should be cheaper not more expensive.

Blonde kids are not usually blonde adults. Bleaching hair is generally how we get blonde adults.

Eventually maybe it will get white, though.

Oh my gosh, I have a spider story. For background, I grew up in Florida and have a near phobic fear of palmetto bugs.

So one night I’m sleeping and jolt awake at that scuttling sound of palmetto legs on drywall. I throw on the light, terrified but see there is no palmetto bug, just a really big spider on the wall. I turned off the light and fell right back to sleep.

Yeah more just looking to use it up, it’s not bad at all, a reasonable grapefruit flavor just haven’t really found a use for it in my usual rotation.

One and a little bit, and husband lived in Chile, so one degree removed person-wise.

Good thing we have lots of kids, so I as usual cancel out my husband’s vote (if he even bothers this time, R but not enthusiastic about Trump) and all the kids align with me. It may not matter here, with the influx of racist northerners, but who knows?

ETA I have at least one who was not going to vote when it was the two old guys but will vote for Harris.

This is my family’s favorite bread, the one they call “the sourdough”. I do the overnight rise, bake the next day. Just flour, water, salt seems like magic.