11:43 AM
@GdD I am not so sure about your statement. Different people react a lot differently to the taste of ethanol itself. Maybe you are one of those who don't have receptors for the "strong" notes in its taste.
I am quite certain you couldn't make a cocktail which tastes to me like fruit juice and knocks me down - I once had an ice cream in which I very clearly recognized alcohol without expecting it at all. Turned out the swirl-in sauce had a bit of batida de coco in it, and the box listed something like "no more than 0.3% total alcohol content".
I was even envious when reading that to some people, pure alcohol doesn't taste gag-worthy, but slightly sweet, and so all the alcohol-based drinks taste to them like amazing fruit and plant extracts, not being dominated by the strong unpleasant taste to which I apparently react.
@Jolenealaska ugh! I hope you are settled in soon. Moves are a chaos, always. Even without your other stuff going on.
and @LSchoon that sounds both a bit scary and a bit of "you get to be a free soul in ways most of us don't experience in our adult lives"