On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:11:22 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 7:54:09 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> Sqwertz wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 03:13:07 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 12:00:14 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Why do people always say, "juniper berries taste like gin?". It
>> > >> should be, "Gin tastes like juniper berries".
>> > >
>> > > Because more people have tasted gin than have tasted juniper berries.
>> >
>> > Touche' :-) I didn't see that coming.
>> >
>> > It was 20 years between my first tasting gin, and then juniper
>> > berries.
>>
>> I tried gin (straight) once in 1971. Tasted like what
>> insecticide might taste like. Never had any since.
>
>My grandmother occasionally drank gin and Squirt, so I had ample
>opportunity to taste it when I was young.
>
>Hot sake tastes like I imagine hot paint thinner would.

But you don't like wine, so maybe you're not a good judge of alcoholic
drinks.