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ORIGINAL: MissAnthropic

Dear RapierFugue,

I dont drink it for the affect, I like the taste. I rarely drink as my liver is dead. When I choose to punish myself, I drink something worth the effort.

It must be my dutch heritage, i was brought up with anise flavoured sprinkles on my sandwiches as a child, I buy just black jelly beans and I love salted licorice.

cheers

jess

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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue




Hmmmmmm … I can see where drugs would be a no-no where that sort of thing was concerned.  Do they alcohol breath-test you when you turn up as well?  And I can see the logic behind people with firearms not being high too.
 
If you want a ritualised drink with nice effects, and one that is very sociable, without having difficult to get hold of (for you) ingredients, try Feuerzangenbole (sugar cubes work almost as well as sugar cones if you can't get the cones) – it’s fun to make, tastes great, and seems to maintain that “silly-drunk” stage better than almost any other drink I’ve tried.  Lovely for a long evening with some friends, just sitting around getting silly and talking cobblers.
 

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ORIGINAL: wulfgarw

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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue

Hmmmmmm … I can see where drugs would be a no-no where that sort of thing was concerned.  Do they alcohol breath-test you when you turn up as well?  And I can see the logic behind people with firearms not being high too.
 
If you want a ritualised drink with nice effects, and one that is very sociable, without having difficult to get hold of (for you) ingredients, try Feuerzangenbole (sugar cubes work almost as well as sugar cones if you can't get the cones) – it’s fun to make, tastes great, and seems to maintain that “silly-drunk” stage better than almost any other drink I’ve tried.  Lovely for a long evening with some friends, just sitting around getting silly and talking cobblers.
 

I think they can give a breathalyzer test if they want or suspect, but in the last 11 years of working at places that do random testing, I've only been checked twice and only one had a breathalyzer.  I keep my drinking and work seperated by at least a full day.  So I have no worries.

But I can't find any english text on this 'Feuerzangenbole' on either Google or Wikipedia?  What is it, if you'll pardon my torpidity?

Here you go:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A660953

… except when I’ve had it made for me by German friends they tend to not bother with soaking the fruit and just make up the mulled wine, then pile in with the rum.

Don’t worry about not having a Feuerzange; I’ve seen (and made myself) replicas using tinfoil.  What you’re after is something you can lay sugar cubes onto (or a proper German cone of sugar if you can get one) , that allows the rum to drip through.  So several layers of tinfoil with slots or holes cut in them, large enough to let the rum through, while retaining the cubes or cone, works a treat.

WARNING: the flames can get a lot higher than you’d think – I managed to melt the surround on a hob’s extractor vent on one occasion

Oh, and that quantity of Feuerzangenbole will be about right for 3 people, or maybe 4 if they’re lightweights 

 

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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue


… except when I’ve had it made for me by German friends they tend to not bother with soaking the fruit and just make up the mulled wine, then pile in with the rum.

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ORIGINAL: wulfgarw

Ok.  Here's a followup question...

The company I work for does random drug screenings.

Does thujone or any other ingredients in absinthe show up in drug screenings?

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Trust you to know the intricate details of the psychotropic potential of Absinthe, Hippie. Tsk tsk.

Ever had Pastis ? It's very similar - I learnt to swim in a pool of it, down on the port of Marseille.

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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956

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Gwynvyd:   If you go to NOLA... you have to do 2 things.. drink a Huricane.. and drink an Absinthe properly.

SHAME on you.   Hurricanes are for tourists.  The two things you have to do are:

Have a sazerac, and, if the season is right, have some King Cake.

E.

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Pastis is an aniseed drink, heavily alcoholic, that clouds when mixed with water, like Absinthe - slightly similar in taste. It gives a motherfucker of a hangover. It's the 'national' drink of Provence (where I was born). Nickname: 'pastagua'. "Alors, Maurice? Un autre 'petit' pastagua?"

A scar on my browbone bears witness that it's a bad idea to play ping-pong on a concrete table when flying on Pastis  .

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Les Bouches, bien sur. Je ne suis pas n'importe qui :-) .  (Marseille)

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Pastis is an aniseed drink, heavily alcoholic,

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ORIGINAL: NakedOnMyChain

My favorite local bar had absinthe briefly when it became legal here.  I finally went to order a glass the other day and they don't carry it anymore.  So much for that idea.

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ORIGINAL: NakedOnMyChain

My favorite local bar had absinthe briefly when it became legal here.  I finally went to order a glass the other day and they don't carry it anymore.  So much for that idea.

Let this be a lesson to us all.  Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, for tomorrow ye rosebuds may have been quaffed by the staff, and ye may find yeself short one Absinthe.
 
 

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

What is being left out here is that Absinthe was a convient scapegoat for the Temprence Folks. The same folks that forced probition upon us and the sme ones who keep a 19 year old Iraqi war veteran from picking up a six pack.

I like Absinthe and the ritual is half the fun. We are soon to lose the whole cork ritual with wines as screw tops and boxes have proven they are better protectors so I am glad some of the rituals like decanting and the whole Absinthe ritrual are coming back to replace them.