A Socially-Distanced Diary of Horrible Drinks
Last March, like most of the planet, I was busy trying to adjust & adapt to a heady mix of social isolation, homeschooling, and zoom calls. One of the ways I coped was to create a short series of drawings inspired by #quarantinis, and the increasingly depressive state of my liquor cabinet. Enjoy this imaginary book below:
Day 1: This is fine. I’m struggling with low-grade panic but we still have mixers. Milder Orange is like…mild orange? For some reason it’s a common way to buy orange juice here, especially for kids. I am not sure what the appeal is because it sounds like German for “watered down”.
Day 2: despite all the frantic Hamsterkaufen we all did over the weekend — 36 hours later I had no milk, coffee, or ice cubes. It was starting to set in that I might have to actually quit grocery shopping every day. Back home this would be no big deal but how was I gonna fit more than two days of groceries in our tiny euro fridge? I started hoarding pasta and canned food like everyone else.
I was homeschooling a lot, people.
No one seemed to know how to protect oneself against covid-19 and Vitamin C tablets (“Brause” which is like anything you add to water to make a fizzy drink) seemed like a great way to stay healthy.
FruchtZwerge (um, literally “fruit dwarf’) is a brand of yogurt cup. That crémant is my favorite crémant and, no, I would never have leftovers but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The classics. Margarita & a Bloody Mary. Sort of.
No. 9 says: “Genever in cool bottle from 2014 team offsite in Haarlem. • (Beneath Brennivín) I think the last time I was in Iceland was 2012? • Bottle of grappa from Katie’s liquor she gave me when she moved to N.Z. • I mean, from the label this should be homemade schnapps but idk.”
No. 10 on instagram I captioned: “Fun fact you can replace the mint in your julep with whatever shit you have in your cupboard. It’s week three and you are an artist.”
At this point during quarntine everyone back in the U.S. was mixing aloe and Everclear to make homemade hand sanitizer because you couldn’t find it on the shelves anymore, and it reminded me that I am already an accomplished infuser-of-alcohol (see here).
That Frozen tumbler still has a lot of life in it. Also, vodka ramen seems like a cool business idea.