I prefer to not chew my drinks, and I don't think drinks should come in courses. ;) Grendel's "throw the rest away" advice sounds about right.

A Bloody Mary is breakfast. It is a meal replacement. This is why you add celery and olives. :)

Some people use V8 rather than clamato or regular tomato juice.

To me a Bloody Mary is something you drink in the morning on a cruise ship, or in a bingo parlor in a casino in the morning, or at brunch. It's sort of a non-guilty morning drink like a mimosa. It's a drink and a meal so you don't feel like you're drinking hard first thing in the morning. It's also sort of like a hair of the dog to take the edge off after a night when you've been drinking a lot.

The morning drinker's discreet morning drink, aye.

I was wondering how long it would take for this to come up ...

Now lets just put it back to bed again and let it sleep, shall we?

...Unless we decide to turn this into a "vampire's teabag" thread.

I'm sipping on a Bloody Mary right now. I use the Tabasco extra Spicy mix with horseradish. It tastes a lot like cocktail sauce.

I hate bloody marys, but the girly loves them, when made right. No A1 sauce, that's just disgusting. Yes on the horse radish. No on Clamato (That's technically a Bloody Ceasar, I think), use V8 or tomato juice.

I'd rather drink straight vodka. Or better yet, give me rum and coke. Or a mojito (made proper). Or a screwdriver. Or damn near anything other than a bloody mary.