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Malibu, Crème de Menthe, Jager, Triple Sec, Vodka & Coke, Kahlua. These seem like cocktails for programmers... earlier in their careers, shall we say.

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Students with random access to alcohol. You drink what you have ... though it's still a poor excuse to mix vodka with cola.

Vodka + diet coke was pretty much only alcoholic beverage I was drinking when on ketogenic diet. It's quite good, actually...

Any reason you chose vodka over rum?

It's simpler to get in bars (though they tend to run out of diet coke fast), and... well, I never bothered to check the carbohydrate contents of rum; just decided to go with the simplest option ;).

Ethanol is the primary source of calories in both rum and vodka. They are, for dieting purposes, equivalent.

Ethanol is actually second only to fat in caloric density, though thankfully you don't really consume massive amounts of it without knowing it. ;)

ethanol has a high caloric content but almost none of those calories can be absorbed by the body. It is a fundamental flaw in the way food calories are measured. To measure the calories of food you put the food in a sealed container under a vial of water and burn it, the food has 1 calorie for ever degree centigrade it made a liter of water rise. ethanol obviously burns extremely well so by this test it has high caloric content but that does not mean your body can convert ethanol to fat, sugar, ATP or anything else useful to the body. The vast majority of it is processed by the liver and expelled by the kidneys

Calories is not the metric important for me here (every alcoholic beverage has plenty of it, so standard caution applies), it's carbohydrate count - too much and you're out of ketosis for good.

Understandable. When I was doing Keto everything and everyone suggested rum and Diet Coke was the best when out drinking.

I'm actually about to go back to keto, as last time I bailed out halfway to my target. I might try rum this time, thanks :).

They make Sprite Zero now, I'd do that instead.

I need to get back on... I'm a big boy (6'2 300lbs) and I was doing great on it but eventually stopped because of an impromptu "Want to be in my wedding in a month?" invitation that required me to stop losing the weight because otherwise I'd be swimming in my tuxedo at the wedding.. Never got back on. I miss it.

My wife is a bourbon/whiskey snob. She mocks me when I make a jack and coke.

(a) your wife is awesome, (b) I too am a whiskey snob, (c) there's really nothing wrong with Jack Daniels or for that matter with jack & coke, (d) there is something wrong with mixing vodka and cola and calling it a cocktail.

Well, the cocktail in question is called 'Epic Fail'.

there are many things wrong with Jack Daniels.

But the good thing about it, unlike its superior rival George Dickel, is that JD is not owned by Diageo. It's a pity that I have to boycott Dickel because of that, but I'm not giving my money to those assholes.

EDIT: and yeah, rayiner's wife is awesome :)

That's a lot of brands to boycott, including, sadly Guiness.

Unfortunately yes. But there is lots of good stuff outside the Diageo umbrella :)

But those wrong things are somewhat diluted by the Coke, quite literally. Not worth wasting good whiskey on a Whiskey and Coke.

She should :)

when doing this, does she also refer to you as "my wife"?

I'm pretty sure I had tired of such things before I was out of my teens. I can also remember turning up at (Secondary) school with a green tongue as I had consumed rather a lot of Crème de Menthe at a party the evening before - ghastly stuff.

I never quite acquired a taste for more refined liquors. These are right up my alley.

Agreed; the "JMP" is especially unfitting (and unappetizing).

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