I don't usually start questions like this, but I find that I'm very amused by something that just happened at my house.
I forgot to go to the store and buy sugar or soda, so I can't make more iced tea and I don't have any soda, and I didn't want water...
so I'm forced to drink beer, which I do have plenty of.
That seemed to me, a very sad tragedy LOL the kind of beer I have is Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat.
The question is:
what do all of you keep in your fridge? soda? tea? cold water? lemonade? milk? beer? wine?
Is it weird that at the moment I have almost all of the above?
I believe I have some juice (which needs to be thrown out), a yogurt drink (which also might need to be thrown out) that I use instead of milk, some tea (green and barley), ice water, half a bottle of coke, half a bottle of wine (semi-sweet red muscat), six bottles of beer (a souviner from my trip to a micro-brewery), and some coffee.
Why is your tea in your fridge?
Cold tea can be good. :)
To be honest, the only drinks we keep on hand consistently are milk and water. Milk is in the fridge. Water - well, we used to get filtered water from places. Kurt just installed a reverse osmosis system, so now we don't have to buy it separately any longer. Other than that...well...sodas only appear at our house about once every other month. I'll get a craving, get a bottle, once that's gone, I don't drink it again for a while. We usually just drink water and I drink milk. I also make the children's cereals with milk (oatmeal and cream of wheat).
You never drink iced tea, Jane? It's the norm during the summer in America. Sun tea is delicious. Stick some tea bags in a big jug of water and set it in the window or out on the porch and let it brew slowly in the sun, then pour it over ice with a little lemon and sugar.... Yummy! (though I only put sugar in black tea XD)
I don't drink tea that has caffeine in it. :}
Food.
Milk and juice as a drink.
Water we can have directly from the tap. Finnish tap-water is safe and clean to drink. Unless someone let's uncleaned waste water directly to the drinking water system, as it happened in one town last winter.
I usually drink my tea hot. Although I've done ice-tea on summers.
I've only ever had tea hot, so there's no tea in my fridge.
Milk, two or three bottles of white wine, two kinds of beer, lemon lime and bitters, ginger beer, lemonade, coke, two kinds of juice, one RTD (bourbon and coke, perhaps?), tap water staying cool.
Quote from: "Paula"Water we can have directly from the tap. Finnish tap-water is safe and clean to drink.
The water I have in my fridge is always unfiltered tap water. Usually I only buy water if I'm away from home, or if I don't have any cold in fridge and I really want some. And then I re-fill the bottles with tap-water and put them back in the fridge :D
Quote from: "Clancey"I don't usually start questions like this, but I find that I'm very amused by something that just happened at my house.
I forgot to go to the store and buy sugar or soda, so I can't make more iced tea and I don't have any soda, and I didn't want water...
so I'm forced to drink beer, which I do have plenty of.
That seemed to me, a very sad tragedy LOL the kind of beer I have is Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat.
The question is:
what do all of you keep in your fridge? soda? tea? cold water? lemonade? milk? beer? wine?
This might sound stupid, but I keep food in my fridge as well ;)
I have milk (semi-slimmed, only used on my cereal), a bottle of fizzy pop (lemonade), fruit juice, blakcurrant squash... and food, and more food, so no room for the beer, that'll have to go in on an as need basis.
Well, here's a question for all your beer drinkers, out of curiosity, what kind of beer do you have in yout fridge? (or waiting to go into your fridge when needed)?
Clancey said she had Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat, which sounds German...
I have six kinds (since they all came from a brewery directly) - stout, lager, pilsner, pale ale, Wheat, and garnet (which I haven't figured out yet...)
Mostly I keep cheese mold in my fridge.
I assumed everyone kept food in their fridge LOL. I was interested in drinks since I was laughing (alot more by my third or fourth beer) at my situation :)
Leine's is brewed in Wisconsin, Eimi, so I bet it is german or dutch!
I love my sun tea too - thats whats in my fridge - but I had no more sugar to make another jar. MUST HAVE SUGAR.
Other beers I keep besides Leine's : Plain old Coors Original (not light bleh!) and also dark and red beers. I love my red beer. Killian's or a microbrew red - either works. I also have wine coolers in case I have any guests who don't like beer (hard to imagine).
My last 6 pack ( I never usually have more than 2 6 packs) was a cool microbrew called Fat Tire. Its an amber wheat. I have no idea what garnet might be LOL
I also keep dangerously swollen, explosive-looking ancient cartons containing fruit juice / smoothies (generally minus one or two glasses' worth from back when they were in date) in my fridge. Occasionally someone brings around some milk because they want to be able to to drink tea in my house, and then I have terrifying seperated milk of doom in there for a while too.
Quote from: "Clancey"My last 6 pack ( I never usually have more than 2 6 packs) was a cool microbrew called Fat Tire. Its an amber wheat. I have no idea what garnet might be LOL
You know, I'm not sure Fat Tire qualifies as a micro-brew. It seems to be EVERYWHERE these days. I used to always get it in bars up in Washington... And its made in Colorado...
The last six-pack I bought in the states was Alaskan Amber :D
I love New Castle Brown. That and Sol are the only two beers where I'll drink a whole bottle. Gotta have lime with the Sol though.
Newcastle is one word - It's a city in the North East of England that I happened to be in this weekend just gone... and Newcy Brown is gross :(
Anyway.... I have some Budweiser (better known for some strange reason as Gnat's pee!), some Petermans Artois (Belgian I think, a milder tasting version of Stella Artois or as it is locally known - wifebeater). I did have some cider as well, but that got drunk. Although last time I tried to buy beer for the fridge I got asked for ID!!! I felt like pointing out that my 34th is weeks away, so yes, I'm well over 18.
Aw, take it as a compliment! I get mistaken for younger all the time. But of course, they don't ID people here, so I haven't been carded in a while. I get carded all the time in the states!
heck, I was only 17 when I was in Japan and they let me have Sake! I didn't drink much, but I liked it. :)
People generally think I'm younger than my age, as well. :) I don't mind!
Let's see. . .
a pitcher of iced green tea, spring water (gallon and individual bottles), a half bottle of Black Swan Shiraz, two containers of pineapple juice, half a bottle of Twist Up (Walmart version of 7Up), several bottles of black cherry sparkling water, and a lone bottle of Guinness Extra Stout.
Food-wise -- coconut bread, pineapple cream cheese, some containers of yogurt, kimchee, cheese, eggs, hummus, mushrooms, peppers, mixed salad greens, and various condiments. I think I need to shop.
Milk - low fat (Mark & I) and normal (the kids).
White wine - 2 types - reisling for drinking and crappy (gift) stuff for lasagne and bolognese sauce.
Cold tap water - in the fridge in an open bottle so all the smelly additives evaporate.
Fruit juice - empty bottle (thanxz Bobbie!)
Cordial - for Cailee
Four types of insulin (not a drink - but not food either) and assorted cough and cold remedies.
I"ve never had cordial. What does it taste like?
It's just a concentrated sugar and flavouring mixture that you dilute in water. You probably have it in the states with a different name.
You can also buy syrup type drinks that you dilute with soda/mineral water - lemon or lime juice cordial. Very refreshing in summer over ice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXUMo6RR-QM An aussie icon.
Cordial is also what I referred to as Squash. Kaysea, remember Robinson's Orange Squash??? I get the sugar free versions as the normal ones are way too sweet.
I remember Orange Squash... Isn't Robinsons the one who used to have the golliwog club? I can remember collecting them all when I was little.
That's Robertson's jam. I had the little golly pins for ages ;)