Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Whether you drink and drive and kill or text and drive and kill it is a STUPID thing to do! Being stupid does not excuse murder. Does it?
I did hear about one poor boob who got DUI but hadn't had a drink. His mother's Christmas trifle was more potent than anyone expected. Suspension and a fine for a first offense.
Wow! Getting drunk on a dessert? I get your point m'dear. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances. Of course if alcohol had been in a baked dessert the alcohol would have dissipated and just the flavor would have remained. But a trifle is built and served ovenless and so if it's kinda loaded with alcohol them that eats it could get loaded too! He must have felt woozy though and surely he'd know that it was laced with alcohol or was he really a boob and clueless? I can always taste alcohol. Can't you? Years ago I made a fruitcake and every week I'd soak cheesecloth with rum and rewrap the rum-infused fruitcake and put it back in the tin to "ripen". It was very rummy and very tasty as I recall. It was not a quick process. I baked it in October to serve on Christmas Day. Never had a fruitcake like that again! Thank you for your reply Sbf! :)
Slightly over the limit, you could put that feeling down to being tired or a "food coma". My mother-in-law makes hers with de-alcoholized wine, there isn't a great deal if difference in the flavour when it's combined with stale cake and custard.
I've tasted what is called "near-beer" SBf and it's rotgut. What does de-alcoholized wine taste like? You say the flavor is pretty much the same. Why not just use rum extract and be done with it? I mean rum and cake are a natural together. Thank you for your reply. It reminds me of decades ago kinda. My then-husband's aunt made a dessert that was baked and called a "something" pudding that was more fruitcake-like than puddingy and was served during the holidays...I don't recall what that "something" name is but she made an orange HARD SAUCE to go with it and I think I died and went to heaven that day. It was so delicious. I've had trifles before and I just adore them. Well I'm a Foodie you see as I expect you know by now so I go into ecstasy of a sort when my tastebuds dance! :)
My MIL has a passionate hatred for alcohol (her father became alcoholic after WWII, probably due to PTSD or "shell shock"), and many of her old recipes include it. So she substitutes the devitalized stuff. It's a little sweeter than the real thing but in a sugar-laden dessert you don't notice that.
Retroactive condolences to your wife m'dear. Growing up with an alcoholic parent could not have been easy for her or pleasant. So I completely understand her aversion/hatred. It's like sugar substitutes. I'm pre-dibetic so I use Stevia and have some sugar-free candy when I get a craving for sweet. It isn't as tasty as the real deal but it's surprisingly satisfying. You just get used to it. Thank you for your reply Sbf and Happy Monday! :)
My wife's grandfather. It's my mother-in-law (MIL) who hates booze. Maureen is partial to sweet red wine, or the occasional cocktail. Doesn't do it in her mother's presence.
Oops. Thanks for the correction Sbf. Didn't you tell me about some really fine Aussie beers years ago? So you drink but NOT when your MIL is present, right? :)
Correct. Or de-alcoholized beer. Haven't seen "near beer", what I drink when attending a barbie with the in-laws is Birell - a Swiss beer (Hürlimann Braurei AG) brewed in Australia under licence by local brewery Cooper's. It's brewed as normal beer, then put in a decompression chamber at 0.25 Bar. The alcohol evaporates - so does the CO2 so it's then gas-charged like soda. A passable substitute.
Willful intention to drink and drive. Willful intention to text while driving. Murder in my eyes. I don't care what a defendant's lawyer's gibberish calls it. It could have been prevented. No excuse. Willful intent. They are murderers. Thank you for your reply m2c and Happy Monday to thee. I am sick and tired of excuses defending/excusing evildoers. Sick and tired of it! Dead is dead. :(
People whom are charged for texting/drinking and driving resulting in a death are charged with manslaughter. Not murder. That is not defendant gibberish that is the law. I do understand dead is dead....I feel the same about abortion.
This post was edited by my2cents at February 5, 2018 4:33 AM MST
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