My maternal grandfather still has 2-3 fingers of Wild Turkey or VA Gentleman each afternoon (”Doctor says it probably won’t be what kills me”) and he turned 99 in March. Saw him a few weeks back, he said “hurry back, I’ll still be here as long as Ma keeps feedin’ me” (She’s 93 or 4)
My Grandpa lived to 100 and would of lived longer except a sick person came to his hundredth B-Day party and he died of pneumonia two weeks later. He drove till he was 95 and rode around on his riding mower after that. Didn’t smoke but chewed tobacco his whole life. Worked till he was 70+ and won a fistfight against a 40 year old when he was 75.
He worked hard his whole life though. I sit on my ass in front of a computer for a living.
I remember him telling me how during the depression he ate “Lard sandwiches” for lunch. Just two pieces of home made bread with pig fat in between. Even when he was old he would sometimes take a dollop of lard and sprinkle some sugar on it as a snack.