# It's Tuesday at noon and I want a beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143 "2000-10-24T18:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/1 "2000-10-24T18:02:45Z")
Not just a beer but a beer with a big steak and sauted veggies. Luckily there is no beer in the house at the moment, I prefer not to drink during working hours but sheesh if there was one I would be enjoying the heck out of it. mmmm, a steak sounds awesome! Any body else up for a beer? ---
**Author:** ![SkySlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SkySlash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkySlash)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/2 "2000-10-24T18:05:07Z")
But I know a stranger that would be better suited to buy one for ya… -SS 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/3 "2000-10-24T18:06:59Z")
Damn Techie… even **I** have never drank a beer at noon! Your quite the lush arn’t you? 😉 I will have to urge you to go for the steak however. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/4 "2000-10-24T18:11:12Z")
Whammo - look at it the way I do - it’s noon SOMEWHERE. 😛 Tech - I’d be thrilled to have a beer with you! I woulda had a beer with you three hours ago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/5 "2000-10-24T18:14:34Z")
Heck Whammo, I am 🙂 These habits are learned from my father…especially on Sundays – football. Shoot, when we go to a game up in Denver we are drinking beer around 11:00 am, go eat the arrive at the game with a happy buzz and full belly of real food. When it’s party time there are no rules. I love a bloody mary with breakfast while on vacation or on the occasional brunch with my AOL roomies. Then there’s the mimosa’s with a fabulously expensive brunch buffet with the family or friends. But a beer just sounds good right now. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/6 "2000-10-24T18:28:23Z")
The only problem with daytime drinking is that once the buzz wears down, it’s only around 3 or 4 in the afternoon–then you’re only tired and grumpy… and still with work to be done. Yet, on the weekends… Sunday mimosas (can’t wait until blood oranges are back in season so I can make mimosas with them again) When I used to work at the Renaissance Faires, the drinking basically started first thing… we always had our “breakfast rum” Dammit, techie. I’ve got school tonight… and now I’m craving a nice, cold one, just like you. See what a corrupting influence you are! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/7 "2000-10-24T18:34:26Z")
Missy, let’s go!!! Of course I don’t have any at my disposal…I need to make a run to the store. I need to go to the grocery store later so maybe about 4:00 my time we can raise a drink for the sake of drinking at that time! Java, sorry hun. Never gone to class with a buzz eh? Tehe, we’d skip our afternoon classes go smoke some KGB and drink. Occasionally we’d go up the canyon and commune with nature. It didn’t matter is was a pathetic excuse for a computer class and computer lab was boring. I did my entire assignment from home in one night. But this was back in the late 80s – community college no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/8 "2000-10-24T18:45:56Z")
Geez, Techie, I wish you were closer because I _always_ want a beer at Tuesday at noon. And as far as you “no drinks before noon” people - psha! You _know_ it’s gonna be a good day if you’re having your first drink before noon. SO and I make it a point on vacations to always make sure to have our first beer pre-noon. Otherwise, it’s not a vacation. Come to think of it, weekends should be like that, too. As should weekdays. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/9 "2000-10-24T18:46:35Z")
I can’t drink with you, techie (I’m all sobered up now) but I’ve been craving a steak for a couple days now. A nice medium-rare thick cut, with mushrooms . . . Damn. This bagel I’m eating is just pissing me off now. How dare it not taste like a grilled steak! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/10 "2000-10-24T19:27:35Z")
Thanks to StoryTyler over on Fathom I am now also craving a burrito. An over stuffed burrito smoothered with green chile, sour cream and guacamole. MMMMM tomatoes, lettuce, refried beans, cheese, onions… And a beer. \< no I am not PMSing and no I am not pregnant I just have weird cravings that will fluctuate throughout the day \> ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/11 "2000-10-24T19:36:44Z")
Well, I just got back from lunch in midtown Manhattan. I had two beers, along with a big beef brisket on rye with mustard and a half-sour pickle and a garlic pickle. If I had known you were having a craving, I would have dedicated one of those beers to you. And a pickle. Now I’m tired and grumpy. Heigh-ho for the Pit! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/12 "2000-10-24T19:37:37Z")
Marcie and I had steaks last night. I cooked 'em. Nice thick ribeye steaks they were. The night before, we had strip steaks. Big, thick, Angus strip steaks. I cooked them, too. Marcie had mushrooms with hers, I opted for straight beef. We had a nice California Burgundy with our steaks but beer is good, too. Tonight I think we will have steak again but we haven’t settled on what kind yet. I will cook 'em, though. Maybe we will have beer with 'em, whatever Marcie wants is okay with me. ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/13 "2000-10-24T19:50:47Z")
All depends on what else you’ve been doing. On one occasion, having had to pull an all-nighter at work, I went home, popped open a bottle of beer, poured myself a double bourbon, and sat down on the patio to drink them at 0800. Of course, one could make the argument that for me, it wasn’t 0800, but 3200. I didn’t however; when confronted by a horrified mother-in-law (who lives next door[sup]1[/sup]) who exclaimed, “You’re drinking at _eight in the morning_?”, I calmly replied, “Best time”. Of course, **techchick68** , I hope that being up all night is _not_ the reason that you want a beer at noon. If it is, you have my sympathy. [sup]1[/sup][sub]FTR, this was not **my** idea.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/14 "2000-10-24T20:11:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by techchick68 \* > \*\*Java, sorry hun. Never gone to class with a buzz eh? \*\* Well, actually… last night was a session of my wine tasting class (hey, it’s culinary school, we _gotta_ know how to drink wine). Usually they make us spit, like good little wine tasters, but last night they eased up on it because we were doing food & wine matches… what, wanna spit out your mouthful of chicken curry & Gewurtztraminer in front of everyone? After about 10 different wines, all of us had a pretty good buzz going. Now, that’s what a wine class is all about! But, tonight is another class that I’ll need to be up & energized for, so no beer with lunch today. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/15 "2000-10-24T20:27:51Z")
I’m in Denver this week and _I_ had a beer with lunch…and brisket, peppered turkey, kielbasa (sp?), pork ribs and beef ribs. So there. I think I’m in love with The County Line Smikehouse & Grill. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/16 "2000-10-24T20:33:07Z")
Uh…that’s **Smokehouse** ::sheesh:: ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-tuesday-at-noon-and-i-want-a-beer/38143/17 "2000-10-24T20:36:56Z")
techchick, I’m usually ready for a beer at noon, weekday or weekend. Once every one or two weeks, I go out to lunch on a weekday and have one, and the hell with the 3 p.m. headache (take some ibuprofen and a pint of ice water). I wonder what Europeans think of our reluctance to drink at lunch? When I was in Paris, obvious suit-and-tie office types at lunch were drinking Bordeaux with their filet mignons or quaffing Stella Artois with their charcuterie. It was kind of a relief to go ahead and drink at lunch if you wanted to without stressing about it. Anyway, yes, I’m up for a beer. I just discovered a BBQ joint here in San Jose that serves Warsteiner on tap, my fave beer. I’ll dedicate the next one to you. Go ahead and have a brew!