What Your Cocktail Choices Say About How You Spent 2020
Not to make a case for day drinking, but them shots helped most of us get through the madness that was 2020. Even at this time of the year, you can’t even say “bye bye to jati-jati” since the world is still reeling from the collective loss and mental stress the pandemic has dealt.
Well, we still believe your choices in drinks says a lot about your personality and how you spent the year. Here’s an attempt to judge your 2020 habits based on your favourite cocktail.
1. Boozy Grinch Punch
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This cocktail is the “New Year, New Me” element of 2020. It’s green, sweet and lightly fizzy, like the promise of a better 2021. If this is your favourite drink, you probably spent quarantine being productive and learning a new skill. You’re one of those people who “made the most of the year” and won’t let anyone hear word about it.
Your hottest skill these days is being a moderator in ClubHouse. Don’t ask how we know sha.
2. Long Island Iced Tea
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Long Island iced tea is definitely not for the fainthearted - especially the way Nigerian bartenders make it. If this is your signature drink, you spent most of the year drunk so that you didn’t have to see the world descending into madness.
You also spent your work-from-home meetings sipping alcohol from your coffee mug. Your memory of the whole year is limited to the months before the lockdown.
3. Vodka Tonic
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If this is your favourite drink, then you spent your 2020 wilding out to mask the stress from the year. You don’t wear your mask all the time because, like vodka, you do be juvenile sometimes.
Somehow you managed to attend all the rocks that happened during and after lockdown. You’re not doing okay during this second wave but you’ll be fine.
4. Chapman
If this is your go-to drink, then you spent the whole year watching Netflix and shedding on your couch. You didn’t do anything special but you also didn’t expose yourself to the virus. All the streaming platforms and food delivery services have you to thank for keeping them in business this year.
5. Blood Orange Mimosa
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Well, this goes without saying but you’re definitely a brunch babe/guy. 2020 showed you hot pepper sha because it took away the one thing you enjoyed, brunch.
Still, you spent the year hosting and joining Zoom events every other day. You even overdressed to someone’s virtual birthday party to remind you of how you used to overdress to brunch.