I don’t drink as much as I used to. I spent my thirtieth birthday taking on all comers in a tequila shot challenge but as you get older the hangovers get worse and are not worth the effort. I still like the option of a drink though. The first beer on a Friday after work tastes the best and you cannot beat a gin and tonic.<\/p>\n
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When I was growing up there were drinks that only appeared at Christmas. Baileys is first thing that comes to mind. A bottle always went in the big shop trolley and then the remnants were binned in November in the pre-Christmas clear out.<\/p>\n
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My Nan was partial to a Tia Maria which was always served in a beautiful Edwardian sherry glass with two thirds Tia Maria with a layer of cream poured on tip. You sip the drink and the Tia Maria comes through the cream. Decadent and heavenly.<\/p>\n
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I could never get on board with the Snowball. Advocaat topped with lemonade. Not a fan but did hoover up the glace cherries. Neat Cointreau over ice was another family favourite. Not sure I’m bringing that back.<\/p>\n
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This year I’m going citrusy. I’m after some Malfy Con Limone<\/a>\u00a0which I harassed a woman in M&S about. I’ve also bought Tangerine syrup<\/a> to add to cava. You get the citrus flavour without the acidity of a Bucks Fizz. I also crack at the Tia Maria and cream, just for old times sake. Chin, chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A trip down memory lane of boozy Christmases past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116,232,168,215],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/champagne-glasses-1940262_1920.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27700,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27699\/revisions\/27700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}