One reason I like the holidays is that the stores start selling that stuff. I like it quite a bit, even though it's very bad for you.

There's a drive-thru convenience store in Florida called "farm stores", and when it's not being robbed by niggers, sells the best eggnog IMO. It's so thick you almost need a spoon to consume it.

Locally "Turkey Hill" eggnog is very good.

Oh, good, a very important subject here!!! Every holiday I try to remember, what was the good eggnog?

Anyway, whatever it was last year, this year Turner Dairies Premium Eggnog has changed the recipe, the eggnog is too thick - kind of slimy - and almost triggered my gag reflex. Too bad, because it had a nice Christmas tree on the label that would have made it easy to remember, if it was good. Now I have to remember, don't get the one with the Christmas tree.

I bought some southern comfort eggnog a couple weeks ago and it was awesome. They have vanilla and traditional. I usually don’t like eggnog but I drank more this year than I have all of the rest of my life put together.

BTW it is non-alcoholic you have to add the booze. But has the southern comfort name and comes in a black or red carton.

A local dairy farm around here makes the best I've ever had. I have no idea what the ingredient is that makes it stand out, but it does make quite a difference, as I've always been an eggnog fanatic (I almost said 'nog fanatic trying to be short :o ). The only thing I do that is considered a heresy by some in my family is cut it with skim milk. The regular is just too thick and makes me sick, but the falvor is awesome.

OK, let's see how many other VNNers are nog lovers.

Nog-lover Number Five, reporting for duty.

I remember an early account of an eggnog type drink where an English person was staying on one of the remote Scottish Isles and he reported this quaint tradition of "Yule" or some such pagan Christmas holiday...the local descendents of the Vikings mixed a drink of 12 eggs, cream and whiskey, I think. Seems like a funny editing is going on in current eggnog histories...

Eggnog literally means eggs inside a small cup. It is used as a toast to ones health. Nog is an old English dialect word (from East Anglia) of obscure origins that was used to describe a kind of strong beer (hence noggin). It is first recorded in the seventeenth century. Eggnog, however, is first mentioned in the early nineteenth century but seems to have been popular on both sides of the Atlantic at that time. An alternative British name was egg flip.

*It all began in England, where eggnog was the trademark drink of the upper class. * [The Turner Dairy bottle has a blurb with something like this] "You have to remember, the average Londoner rarely saw a glass of milk," says author/historian James Humes (July 1997, "To Humes It May Concern"), former speech writer and adviser to four presidents. "There was no refrigeration, and the farms belonged to the big estates. Those who could get milk and eggs to make eggnog mixed it with brandy or Madeira or even sherry." But it became most popular in America, where farms and dairy products were plentiful, as was rum. Rum came to these shores via the Triangular Trade [Jewish Monopoly Slave/Rum/Spices Trade Triangle] from the Caribbean; thus it was far more affordable than the heavily taxed brandy or other European spirits that it replaced at our forefather's holiday revels."

An English creation, it descended from a hot British drink called posset, which consists of eggs, milk, and ale or wine. The recipe for eggnog (eggs beaten with sugar, milk or cream, and some kind of spirit [FORGOT THE CHRISTMAS SPICES]) has traveled well, adapting to local tastes wherever it has landed. In the American South, bourbon replaced ale (though nog, the British slang for strong ale, stuck). Rich, strong eggnog — the richer and stronger, the better — is no stranger to holiday celebrations in New Orleans, and at this time of year the drink takes its place alongside syllabubs on the traditional southern table. (Syllabub is a less potent mixture than eggnog but just as rich. Made with milk, sugar and wine, it straddles the line between drink and liquid dessert.)

Eggnog goes by the name coquito in Puerto Rico, where, not surprisingly, rum is the liquor of choice (as it is these days for many eggnog lovers in the U.S.). There the drink has the added appeal of being made with fresh coconut juice or coconut milk. Mexican eggnog, known as rompope, was created in the convent of Santa Clara in the state of Puebla. The basic recipe is augmented with a heavy dose of Mexican cinnamon and rum or grain alcohol, and the resulting drink is sipped as a liqueur. In Peru, holidays are celebrated with a biblia con pisco, an eggnog made with the Peruvian pomace brandy called pisco.

The Germans make a eggnog or rather egg soup with beer (Biersuppe). Here in Iceland, we do have a soup here that resembles eggnog somewhat but there´s no alcohol in it. It is served hot as a dessert. Other than that, we have nothing that resembles eggnog and no eggnog traditions.

One reason I like the holidays is that the stores start selling that stuff. I like it quite a bit, even though it's very bad for you.

There's a drive-thru convenience store in Florida called "farm stores", and when it's not being robbed by niggers, sells the best eggnog IMO. It's so thick you almost need a spoon to consume it.

Locally "Turkey Hill" eggnog is very good.

It is ashame that most of the Farm Stores are in bad neighborhoods because they do have the best Eggnog I have ever had. I found (2) stores tonight that said on the sign they have eggnog....

'Warninck's Advocaat' is the best one (about the only one) available in central europe. Its made in Holland, as I suppose it would be with a name like that?.
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