On the Subject of Drink

[pensnest]

A little investigation into the matter of beverages.

Firstly, alcoholic drinks will not be provided as part of the package. It's too complicated and too expensive. That doesn't mean Camp Sparkle is to be alcohol-free, no indeed, but if you think you'll want wine, beer, spirits or whatever, bring your own, and decide for yourself if you wish to share. Those of you flying in, or travelling by train, may want to make Arrangements with someone else to transport the necessary - I'm sure that can be sorted out privately.

(I shall probably bring a demijohn of white wine, which was given to me by my Pa some time ago, but there are no guarantees offered as to whether or not it is an agreeable drink. I have not broached it at all.)

What we will provide are hot drinks and soft drinks. So here are a couple of polls, to enable the shopping (I hope).


[Poll #929007]

* Tea = * proper English tea of the variety known as common or garden 'breakfast' or thereabouts.

Please note: I'm definitely not promising all these options will be available! Most likely, there'll be a choice of three or four soft drinks, but if there's a strong vote in favour of, say, Diet Cherry Coke, I'll do my best to get some, and if nobody wants 7-up/Sprite, I won't bother to buy it.

Comments

[stellamira]

Uh, what about water? Though I'll drink tap water, too. And I used to know this, but forgot it: what's the difference between orange juice and orange squash?

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Squash is that concentrated stuff that you have to dilute with water to drink. Juice is juice. :)

[stellamira]

Ah, yes. All right. The word hasn't made it into my dictionary yet. Thanks!

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad to see Diet Coke has a strong representation, so I don't need to worry about it.

Seriously, it's the only thing I drink with ANY regularity. Imagine your country without tea. That's how I am without Diet Coke. I will literally walk my half-crippled @$$ however far it has to walk to buy Diet Coke and carry it back with me if there's none available. So, this is me, begging that there be some available. If everybody else votes against it, I'll pay you for it when I'm in London. (and thusly keep it to myself, mwahaha. Except no, I would share with my fellow Diet Coke lovers, for we must stick together.)

And seriously, y'all, you don't want to see how pissy the American can get if he has to limp for his soda. ;)

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

Like Mira I would like some bottled water but I can also drink tap water :-) .

[nopseud]

Vanilla Coke is not longer for sale, anyway :-(

[simply-fly-away.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to transport alcohol for those unable. I'll probably bring some spirits anyway, but you want anything in particular send me an email to simply_fly_away @ livejournal.com

[saffronra.livejournal.com]

I can't stand diet soft drinks. They taste gross and are worse for you than the full sugar version. Bleh :P

And for tea drinking purposes, I'll need some form of non-dairy milk substitute (which I am happy to bring for myself if you want).

[pensnest]

It's probably easiest if you bring your own milk substitute, but we can surely provide not-butter for the weekend - any preference?

[saffronra.livejournal.com]

I use the soya 'pure' margarine.

[turlough]

I prefer to drink standard tap water but I'll drink the bottled variety if it's not too carbonated.

I'm not too keen on standard breakfast tea, probably because I drink it plain without either milk or sugar, so I'll try to remember and bring along a couple of looseleaf tea blends, probably a plain Earl Grey for breakfast purposes and some flavoured blend for the rest of the time.

[cardalia.livejournal.com]

As long as there's something besides diet soft drinks (ick!) I'm really not picky at all. Anything goes.

And like turloughisere, I'm more of an Earl Grey king of girl, but I can bring some along myself.

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

could I maybe make a vote for some tonic? for g&t's?

[pensnest]

Good thought, I'll make a note of that.

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

cool! thanks.

[nopseud]

If there's going to be tonic, can I put in a vote for Schweppes Tonic with Lemon, as it's the only one which doesn't have artificial sweeteers in it.

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Could someone also get a hold of some JuCee squash for the weekend? I just thought that it'd be extremely fitting to have JuCee squash for a pop gathering.

[pensnest]

Oh, good thought!

[nopseud]

I still have a bottle of it. I have no idea if it's in date or not, I'll check.

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Was that the bottle that I brought to the gathering at your place two years ago?

Bwahahaha!

[nopseud]

That's the very one!

Although it doesn't look like the kind of stuff which has ingredients with *could* go off :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ducks/]

I don't know if I'm too late to chime in with this one, but I'm pretty easy beverage wise anyway - I'll drink instant coffee and tap water.