Whisky you’re the devil
Sunday night at dinner before Yo La Tengo’s show in Seattle we were out with some friends for dinner. It came up that our friend Lisa’s dad swears that the onset of illness should be treated immediately with whisky. Coincidentally, the next day (yesterday) I started feeling a cold come on so I walked down the hall to raid Meredith’s liquor supply. I wound up with a small cup of some old scotch whisky which I’ve since learned is “peaty”. I can now say that “peaty” whisky is almost unimaginably gross - “almost” because I know what Copenhagen tastes like.
So the question is this - why would anyone pay for 15 year scotch when you could spend $4 on a tin of Copenhagen and about as much on a 6-pack of Schlitz (for a chaser) and get the same effect? Do I just not get liquor?
On the bright side - no cold today!