# "Are you a Mead Slut, or a Mead Virgin?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 24, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496 "2004-11-24T17:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/1 "2004-11-24T17:33:42Z")
This is what the very cute guy asked the lady next to me at the Renaissance Faire this August. I loved it but I think she was kind of offended. If he had asked me, I would have said loudly, “Mead Virgin! And do you think to deflower me, my lord?” I’m going away from now until Sunday, so I just wanted to leave you guys with something. See you next week! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/2 "2004-11-24T18:35:41Z")
When the honeyed fluid starts flowing, all will be made plain. (And thank god for plain maids!) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/3 "2004-11-24T19:01:15Z")
Have fun and be safe, whatever you’re plans! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/4 "2004-11-24T19:03:20Z")
:smack: You get the idea. 😉 Oh, sure when I _mean_ to submit, it takes a half hour…catch a spelling mistake and try to correct it in time… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/5 "2004-11-24T19:20:33Z")
I wasn’t working at either the mead or ale stands this year, so I’ll have to confess ignorance over the mead slut/virgin idea. Some friends of mine make their own mead, but I certainly wouldn’t think of them as sluts. Ah well… Off to Dickens Fair now. No mead there to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/6 "2004-11-24T19:42:17Z")
Due to my SCA status, I receive a lot of gifts. Most consist of mead. Many MANY flavours of mead. I’m still new to the stuff but plan on bringing the booty to my next household gathering. Hilarity and hangovers will ensue. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/7 "2004-11-24T19:48:33Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Have fun and be safe, whatever you’re plans! 🙂 :winces: Thanks for the thought, anyway! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/8 "2004-11-24T19:56:51Z")
I would have said whatever got me the mead fastest … but it’s my experience that proclaiming yourself a slut at Faire is a fantastic way to meet people. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/9 "2004-11-24T20:03:01Z")
Thank God for home brewing. One hundred cheap, legal gallons a year! Mead, ale, lager, porter, I love it all! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/10 "2004-11-24T22:20:39Z")
Sounds like he was a mead pimp, actually… ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/11 "2004-11-24T22:27:51Z")
Isn’t mead just another name for turpentine? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/12 "2004-11-25T03:00:24Z")
I’ve tasted mead about 3 times, so not quite a virgin., but I’ve only tasted it. Once it was so sweet it made my teeth hurt, another time it was a bit too strong of an alcohol flavor (yes, a little like turpentine) and another time it was juuuust right. But I have yet to have an entire glass (mug, flask, goblet?) of it for myself. I was actually thinking of buying a bottler recently and try a little more than a taste but I have no clue on how to buy mead. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/13 "2004-11-25T03:10:17Z")
I say Robin Meade is not a virgin. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/14 "2004-11-25T14:06:01Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Isn’t mead just another name for turpentine? No, you’re thinking of tequila. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/15 "2004-11-25T14:10:46Z")
I’m a mead virgin… I’ve never tasted it before in my life. (Does it really taste like turpentine? Bleeech!) ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/16 "2004-11-25T14:26:15Z")
Ahh, what I wouldn’t give for a group of Slutty Mead Virgins… …mmm… 😃 (and once again, I totally misunderstood the title - seriously!) ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/17 "2004-11-25T15:02:37Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’m a mead virgin… I’ve never tasted it before in my life. (Does it really taste like turpentine? Bleeech!) It depends on how it gets made of course. I made a batch 3 years ago that became really nice after 2.5 years. Before that it was very alcoholic, very “fiery”. Remember Alcool? Something like that, but once mead mellows, it becomes very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/18 "2004-11-25T15:10:44Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’m a mead virgin… I’ve never tasted it before in my life. (Does it really taste like turpentine? Bleeech!) No, it doesn’t. Good mead tastes like wine with honey in it. Great mead tastes like liquid sunshine. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/19 "2004-11-25T15:53:20Z")
Small hijack, **Ethilrist** , you wouldn’t happen to have any good home brew recipes for mead would you? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496/20 "2004-11-25T18:06:46Z")
As far as I’m concerned mead is one of those really stupid ideas that turned out to be really nice. Wait, I swear that metaphor wasn’t there when I conceived that sentance. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-mead-slut-or-a-mead-virgin/276496.md?page=2)