In article >,
blake murphy > wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:39:58 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> My father, God rest his soul, knew some 'interesting' people. One such
> >> person took my father on a bender with some 'homebrew'. Finest kind made
> >> in
> >> the bathtub. Father dear got deathly ill....swore until the day he died
> >> it
> >> was because he drank it out of a green bottle. Would eat or drink nothing
> >> from that day on that originated in a green bottle.
> >
> >:-)
> >
> >Lots of people won't drink certain liquors because it was the first thing
> >they ever got so drunk on that they puked their guts out, but they usually
> >blame the booze, not the colour of the bottle it came in.
>
> this is known as a learned food aversion. people have that mechanism,
> but not as strongly as, say, rats. i suppose you could call an
> aversion to the bottle color stimulus generalization.
>
> (my bête noire is scotch, due to an unfortunate experience as a
> college freshman, generalized to a certain extent to bourbon and rum.
> oddly, i've puked many times drinking beer, but the aversion never
> kicked in, thank god.)

Bacardi and I had an argument one New Year's Eve and it won. To this
day I can't look it in the face.

Miche

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