Paul, anything with rum in it, tastes like rum. That is one of the penalties incurred while trying to get bombed.
You need to alter your drinking strategy to make the experience more enjoyable. There are 2 approaches to your problem.
1. Make your first drink extremely strong. Be a man and suck it back. Slightly cut back the volume of alcohol, so it tastes better than the first. Quickly you will realize that you are drunk, and the need for mix is unnecessary.
2. Start out with weak drinks and slowly increase the volume of alcohol with each drink, while reducing the amount of mix. The increase in strength between drinks is hardly noticeable. By the end of the night, you'll be doing shooters.
Either way will accomplish the job. Usually men will use option 1 because it looks cool
and option 2 is reserved for women, so they can still look feminine and lady like, while getting hammered out of their tree
Jamie
[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: Jamie Robertson ]
[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: Jamie Robertson ]