National Apertif Day 2024
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Fine dining and alcohol were essential parts of that aspect of my life. I was making the dough. I had the ecclectic taste for life and everything it had to offer.
Beluga caviar, sushi bars, haiku sake, Tiara over the Moon sake, any upscale steak house I found myself near. Suppers at Maxims, dinners at La Petit Chateau on Devine Street in the beginning. Lunches at Cantina 76 in the end. Oh my it was quite a ride.
Today is National Aperitif Day.
It is observed each year on the third Thursday in May. That would make it May 16th this year.
The day marks the value of apertifs — those drinks consumed prior meals as part of the good life.
Originally of French extraction, they are now an international indulgence and serve as ingredients in many cocktail recipes all over.
So I stopped drinking alcohol in the early 1990s in an effort to cease and desist all recreational drug use when 'drug testing' became the popular thing among stupid people like HR bitches and the like everywhere. I am surprised just how many stupid people are in the workplace. Particularly in HR departments large and small. It's astounding.
So get on out there and have tha pre meal apertif if it follows your fancy. I'll remain the teetotaler I have been for a long time now. When you make a lifestyle choice for yourself they typically remain with you regardless of how you may have once enjoyed partaking of that which you now shun.
Happy National Aperitif Day.