[Sca-cooks] Is it just me, or when did they start doing this???

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:28 AM, S CLEMENGER wrote:

> Yup.  My scotch-savoring friends (all of whom seem to favor single- 
> malts)

There's really no compelling reason for anybody who has any liking for  
Scotch whiskey at all to like a blended whiskey. It's not that there's  
no reason, but rather, it's that the reasons are the same reasons  
people have for liking McDonald's. It's about consistency of product,  
and  [a perceived as reasonable, even when it really is not] price.  
Let's say there are reasons, some of them good, for making blended  
whiskey, just not too many good ones for really liking it...

> all say the same.

Prolly that annoying "being true" thing...

>  I just shudder, and use a "designated scotch drinker" in peers'  
> circles.  ;o)
> --Maire

There're all sorts of things the human palate was probably never  
designed to react to in a positive way, with tars and creosotes being  
up near the top of the list, I suspect, and an Islay malt must plead  
guilty to having its fair share of those. I hated Scotch for years  
until I found that what I hated was just really bad Scotch. It turned  
out my parents (who were not Scotch drinkers) were buying the house  
brand of the liquor store outlet of a then-large national department  
store chain... Glenmorangie, this stuff was not. So, when one's  
parents are responsibly involved and you're of an age to experiment  
with such things, kids sometimes do get exposed to their parents'  
booze... unfortunately the experiences are not universally positive. ;-)

Adamantius