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[Daddles]

I meant CTRL-C... that'll teach me to choose red with the chicken.

No, no, no. If you're going to drink red with the chicken you MUST do it to excess. Otherwise the steroids in the chicken counteract the alcohol in the red and you wind up looking at the world as it really is. Interestingly, there is no evidence as to the effects of drinking white with chicken because, as we all know, only poofs drink white and so the evidence isn't available on this forum.

Richard

I've only had one red tonight ... a 5l cask :eek:

[Cliff Rogers]

....the steroids in the chicken....... a 5l cask :eek:

You are worried about the steroids in the chicken????:confused:

What about the preservatives in the cask wine?

[Daddles]

You are worried about the steroids in the chicken????:confused:

What about the preservatives in the cask wine?

What's wrong with the preservatives? The cardboard appears quite sound :confused:

Richard

[Cliff Rogers]

What's wrong with the preservatives? The cardboard appears quite sound :confused:

Richard

But how SOUND is your head this morning?

[Daddles]

But how SOUND is your head this morning?

Are you making outrageous suggestions about my vino consumption?
Hah.
Interestingly though, and I hadn't made the connection until now (see, the benefits of mucking about), if I drink a couple of glasses of cask red every day, I get sore joints in my hands. I thought at first it was just arthritis creeping in (the rest of my family got in at my age, why shouldn't I ), but a day or two off the red and the pain goes away. Might be them preservatives having a play.

Richard

[Stuart]

Bad news Richard, as a gout sufferer, red wine is one of those things prone to set off an attack.

If you have any other symptoms, you might want to get those ?puric acid? levels checked. If it is gout, then you can use the medication to keep it under control, while drinking the red to your heart's content

After all - gout is another form of arthritis, which can be bought on by diet....such as red wine.

[Daddles]

The term 'bugga' springs to mind. Ah well, I gotta see the doc in the next week or two anyway.

Richard

[Stuart]

Hope I'm wrong - not known to be able to diagnose medical problems from afar, but I'm male, an engineer, and so think I know something about everything!

[Cliff Rogers]

As a test, get a bottle of good red, not a $5 bottle, $15 to $20 range will do, & try that & see if your joints hurt.... worth a try; almost as scientific as going to the doc & then forking out for pathology tests.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

When I first started in the open cuts, my foreman had serious gout problems. However he swore black & blue that a couple of good stouts alleviated it.

I've always wondered... does it really? Or is it just one of those "get comfortably numb" things?

[Stuart]

How would you tell the difference?