The History of Eggnog

Love it can not get enough of it.☺

Jamestown, Pilgrims, grog, noggin, you all have me cracking up! The only thing funnier (sad) is that I just spent time reading all of this stuff. Stop it with the elf thing, and no, no one cares about fruit cake.
btw, the Spanish were settling in what is now New Mexico in the late 1500s, while you English easterner pilgrims were dying in your beloved Jamestown.

We like eggnog with rum in it- or rum with eggnog in it-

The best way to use eggnog is in Christmas breakfast pancakes~;-)

Each to his own. I personally like eggnog. It's not for everybody just like anything else. With or without alcohol, mix to taste. Some of the comments on here are informative while others are; well, just plain FUNNY! The "grog's" aflowing somewhere!!! Drink up; it's the holidays!

While the article is mildly interesting, the author really needs to submit it to the editing process as there are several basic grammatical errors that undermine the content.

I have tried the kind that's sold in a carton in grocery stores. Not bad. Very sweet and rich, with a hint of rum flavoring. My question is...if raw eggs are used to make it, how do you make sure you don't get sick??? I think the ones in the carton in the dairy dept of the store are pastuerized, so I guess whatever pastuerizing means, it kills any possibility of salmonella. Well, since people have been drinking it for centuries, it can't be that bad. The carton kind is good, but I wouldn't want to drink a lot of it. I think it's actually the "rum flavor" to it that makes me like it! lol

Phil said: Yes, Oofy, Jamestown was founded in 1607. Unfortunately, all of the settlers disappeared and left the town abandoned. Hence, the Pilgrims are regarded as the first PERMANENT settlement.

Actually, Phil, Jamestown was the first permanent settlement. You are thinking of the lost colony of Roanoke.

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Now, instead of beer for a base, they use corn syrup...to make it sweet. Basically it is eggnog flavored corn syrup. garbage. Read the labels, and one can find eggnog without corn syrup.

Yes, Oofy, Jamestown was founded in 1607. Unfortunately, all of the settlers disappeared and left the town abandoned. Hence, the Pilgrims are regarded as the first PERMANENT settlement.

Personally, I like eggnog.

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Commercial eggnog is disgusting. Homemade eggnog is fabulous and becomes even BETTER if you add bourbon, rum, or whiskey. Mmmmmmm.

Eggnog is very delicious if made the proper way, just like hot chocolate it can be very bad but made the right way it's heavenly stuff !

Phil, I'm pretty sure Oofy wasn't disputing that the Plymouth colonists were the first permanent English settlement in New England, his (or her) point was that the article says, "the drink was enjoyed by the pilgrims way back in 1607," but unless their eggnog had time travel properties, the Pilgrims couldn't have enjoyed eggnog way back in 1607, because they technically didn't become Pilgrims until 1620 when they journeyed to Plymouth. There were no Pilgrims in Jamestown, so if the 1607 date in the article was referring to the Jamestown colonists the term "Pilgrims" shouldn't have been used. If the article was indeed referring to the Plymouth colonists, then the date should have been 1620. The Separatists known to us as "The Pilgrims" were still in Leiden, Holland, in 1607. They very well may have been enjoying eggnog in 1607, but at that time they were not yet the group we know today as the Pilgrims.

I love EMINEM, eggnog and the HOLIDAYS!

this article sucks! It starts off by telling us it wil state the origin of eggnog, then does not say anything else except crap about some possible ofigins, Try again!

In spanish we call that "rompopo" and also we add liquor on it.

I read that the word "grog" came from the nickname of a certain sea captain, who wore a "grogham" coat. "Grogham" is supposedly a slurring of "gros grain," if I remember right.

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