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# Friday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/37716/
- Published: 2015-09-11T06:51:19.000Z
- Updated: 2015-09-11T06:51:19.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

![Kingsley_Amis](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kingsley_Amis-196x300.jpg)

Some advice from Kingsley Amis' *Everyday Drinking*, with my commentary in italics:

"If the red strikes you as thick, dark and heavy, feel no shame in cutting it with the local bubbly mineral water; worth trying in parts of Italy and Spain." *I'm gonna have to try that. I would've thought such a thing anathema, but if a man of Amis' drinking culture condones it, well . . .*

"Gin men should slip a small bottle of Angostura into their luggage. You can knock together some sort of drink with it–and gin–under almost any conditions, and you can never find it abroad." *This, I believe, was the passage that started my love affair with bitters. See link below for my favorite.*

"Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil, and fear her danger, opens a new world when this, the present, palls." *Actually, that's not Amis. That's Amis quoting Lord Byron.*

"The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink." *Channel GKC's "Omar and the Sacred Vine"* from Heretics.

*Got a relative who grows troublesome when drunk? Here's some neat, though borderline sinful, advice:* "\[A\] friend of mine, whose mother-in-law gets a little excited after a couple of drinks, goes one better in preparing her third by pouring tonic on ice, wetting a fingertip with gin and passing it round the rim of the glass, but victims of this procedure must be selected with extreme care."

"Charles Jackson's marvellous and horrifying *The Lost Weekend*, still the best fictional account of alcoholism I have read." *My Dad would make reference to this book. Or was he referring to the movie? In any event, I've tried for years to find the movie, with no luck.*

*Some good bar fodder*: "Poe himself had a drink problem; contrary to popular belief, he was not a dipsomaniac, but his system was abnormally intolerant of alcohol, so that just a couple of slugs would lay him on his back, no doubt with a real premature-burial of a hangover to follow."

*I knew it!* "\[T\]he reason why so many professional artists drink a lot is not necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is simply that they can afford to, because they can normally take a large part of a day off to deal with the ravages."