As a 14 year old, mine was 'Special K' or 'Diamond White'... Yours?

Scrumpy, my boy.

Besides being given hot toddies (whisky) as a kid...I basically started off on ciders at uni when I was 17...then moved to lager and later to whisky (again!)

Nice. It seems like the apple juice is a good starting ground.

I too moved from cider to lager followed by baileys chasers (I was young). I've since moved to lager tops followed by vodka-cokes when I've hit the 7 pint limit.

I've dropped the baileys chasers but still like it occasionally on the rocks before bed.

My first tipple, apart for the odd bits my mum and dad allowed me to have at Christmas etc etc etc, was vodka and lime -

Have come on in leaps and bounds since then!

I think when you are younger your taste buds still prefer sweet things and drinks, it was later I moved to lager. Same with blue cheese, I thought it tasted like soap when I was in my late teens, yet later and now I can easily demolish a blue vein cheese, such as Stilton.

Cider - beer - liquor is the standard route.

I didn't take well to alcohol when I first started drinking. My American family rarely drank anything harder than chardonnay at a special event and even then they felt guilty, whereas my English family didn't consider it a day until they'd had a bottle at lunch, drinks after work, another bottle or two at supper and a bedtime toddy.

It's hard to balance the two halves. Even today I have an odd relationship to alcohol. I want to be a drunkard but I can't stomach having more than two or three drinks at a go.

I did try and drink Cafferys for a while. Love the stuff, but the hangover used to start while I was midway through the 3rd pint so hate to jack that in.

I've yet to find blue cheese or olives nice...

I never liked blue cheese until one day I had some smeared on a piece of crispy melba toast with a dab of honey.

It was nice.

Try it.

I don't drink, disgusting habit....

God, me too, ewey...

are you still drunk....?

Cheese and honey...? This just seems so wrong.

Lisa likes a Brie and Cranberry sandwich, or the poor mans version of cheddar and jam. all just seems wrong to me.

And reason being?

she can't handle it.