There is something wrong with the "small" margarita
(the menu listed "small" and "large") ringing up
on the bill as "kid's margarita". (Mad Mex,
Sunday night.)
I got (small amounts of) wine at formal family dinners too, though not outside the home.
Ditto. My father gave me my first quarter-glass of wine when I was something like 8 or 10, mostly with the explicit purpose of impressing on me that this is strong stuff, and not to be taken lightly. I still have vague memories of how tipsy I was. And the lesson seems to have worked as intended -- even when I started drinking on my own (maybe age 15), I've always been very moderate in my quantities.
I didn't get a similar introduction to beer, but that was because Dad has never really had a taste for it, so I wound up picking that up on my own much later (in my 20s). I'm constantly amused that I have fairly plebian tastes in wine compared to my father's expert palate, but it's exactly the reverse for beer and ale...
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Date: 2004-09-21 10:35 am (UTC)Ditto. My father gave me my first quarter-glass of wine when I was something like 8 or 10, mostly with the explicit purpose of impressing on me that this is strong stuff, and not to be taken lightly. I still have vague memories of how tipsy I was. And the lesson seems to have worked as intended -- even when I started drinking on my own (maybe age 15), I've always been very moderate in my quantities.
I didn't get a similar introduction to beer, but that was because Dad has never really had a taste for it, so I wound up picking that up on my own much later (in my 20s). I'm constantly amused that I have fairly plebian tastes in wine compared to my father's expert palate, but it's exactly the reverse for beer and ale...