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derspatchel's drinks cabinet and in honor of Mordecai Heller, I finally made and drank a Bunny Hug.
It didn't put me under the table (and we didn't pour it down the sink, as advised by The Savoy Cocktail Book), but I think it reintroduced Rob to his sinuses. I should probably fudge the proportions next time and use less absinthe, since the whisky and gin mostly serve as backup when equally distributed. It would all have come out of somebody's bathtub originally.
Cardullo's now carries the full range of Fentiman's, shandy and rose lemonade included. I have a bottle of the latter in the refrigerator. I plan to go back for the tonic water.
There are no words to describe Brian Blessed on QI.
Knock wood. This week didn't suck, either.
derspatchel's drinks cabinet and in honor of Mordecai Heller, I finally made and drank a Bunny Hug. It didn't put me under the table (and we didn't pour it down the sink, as advised by The Savoy Cocktail Book), but I think it reintroduced Rob to his sinuses. I should probably fudge the proportions next time and use less absinthe, since the whisky and gin mostly serve as backup when equally distributed. It would all have come out of somebody's bathtub originally.
Cardullo's now carries the full range of Fentiman's, shandy and rose lemonade included. I have a bottle of the latter in the refrigerator. I plan to go back for the tonic water.
There are no words to describe Brian Blessed on QI.
Knock wood. This week didn't suck, either.
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That sounds like a particularly obscure folk rhyme.
Thank you.
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Sinuses: Rob ... is it really you?
Rob: S-sinues. I-I never thought we'd meet again. Certainly not here! Not over a Bunny Hug.
Sinuses: You haven't changed a bit.
Rob: Ha. You know that's not true. But you . . . I'm remembering that time we had wasabi together--remember that? And that time there was that ammonia spill? Oh sinuses, are you here to stay this time Or are you just going to break my heart again?
I remember your mentioning that rose lemonade. One day I will swoop down on Cardullo's and get some.
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That is a beautiful line.
One day I will swoop down on Cardullo's and get some.
And you'll let me know when you're in town!
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I think it's the only time I've ever heard about a drink and worried about what happens to the gin in it.
Knock wood. This week didn't suck, either.
It's wood from Ikea flat-pack furniture, but knocking as well. I had a friend who hypothesized that in Britain it's "touch wood" where in the states it's "knock wood" because what you are really doing is ordering a blessing from the Druids, and since the Druids are in Britain, you don't need to be so loud for them to hear.
The Fentiman's sounds *quite* interesting. I must investigate this. I have made things with dandelion and burdock (and red clover) for people in the past (I have also made more... direct interventions for a couple of people for the same reason), so it might be interesting to sample a more professional version of my medicine (the former, not the latter and parenthetical).
(ew.)
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Bravo, sir. Bravo.
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I rather like that.
Fentiman's Victorian lemonade is my favorite storebought. I can also recommend the Seville orange jigger.
[edited after I realized I'd misspelled curiosity, which is just sad]
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I congratulate you on your Bunny Hug.
I think it reintroduced Rob to his sinuses
The logical next step is absinthe, whiskey and gin shaken with a tablespoon of wasabi: the Myxomatosis Hug.
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sporffle. Tho' I'm alarmed enough by the idea of the basic version.
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I'm really looking forward to it.
skogkatt and M. gave me absinthe once. The aniseed was like a kick in the chest, but in a good way.
I hate liquorice, but I like absinthe. Maybe it's the wormwood. Go know.
The logical next step is absinthe, whiskey and gin shaken with a tablespoon of wasabi: the Myxomatosis Hug.
God, that sounds of a pair with
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I could really get behind this whole "life not being a continual, grinding, crushing pile of manure," though.
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One must keep busy!
I could really get behind this whole "life not being a continual, grinding, crushing pile of manure," though.
Well, that would be a good way, too.
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Since you're supposed to mix absinthe with sugar and ice-water anyhow, I think it could work; but if you used the caffeinated Mountain Dew, the results could be.... interesting....
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AUGH.
I mean, I'm all for science. Just tell me when so I have time to get out of range before your head explodes.
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I raise a glass of rose lemonade: to a world of such weeks!
Nine
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I can't say I'm doing what I can, because I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm enjoying it!
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Best. Description. Ever.;)
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Is that a drink or a chemical weapon?
(That drink had the Innsmouth look, if Innsmouth was on fire.)
You may have won this thread.
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As usually happens when I'm deep in edit farr, meanwhile, today I started thinking about Mordecai volunteering (or being volunteered, maybe, by Viktor) to balance Mitzi's books. I'll bet half the earlier documentation has probably met with an accident, but he might be able to back-engineer how things got to wherever they are now by looking at the wreckage. Or maybe that's just me treating math like magic again, as ever.
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Yeah, I think my geek-on for authenticity has its limits . . .
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*snerk*
Mordecai volunteering (or being volunteered, maybe, by Viktor) to balance Mitzi's books. I'll bet half the earlier documentation has probably met with an accident, but he might be able to back-engineer how things got to wherever they are now by looking at the wreckage. Or maybe that's just me treating math like magic again, as ever.
You know, I have no idea. Do you know any accountants?
(I would read a story about Mordecai doing the Lackadaisy accounts. It's like actors reading the phone book.)
Do you know any accountants?
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The best mixing tonic is Schweppes Indian Tonic; I tried the Fentiman's stuff and found it much like Sprite. YMMV.
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I have no idea. The gin was Bombay Sapphire; the whisky may have been some kind of bourbon. I don't remember the absinthe's name. (I didn't get its phone number, either.)
The best mixing tonic is Schweppes Indian Tonic; I tried the Fentiman's stuff and found it much like Sprite. YMMV.
I just like quinine. My favorite soda is bitter lemon. We found some of that, too.
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Wow.
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Bottled shandy at soft-drink strength is an interesting concept. I do sometimes drink the half-Harp half-lemonade* version in the summer if I'm driving and have time to drink but not quite enough time.
Knock wood. This week didn't suck, either.
I'm pleased by this. Wood is knocked for you.
*i.e. lemon-lime soda, although I once ran into a pub which made it with American-style fresh-squeezed lemonade, which was completely inauthentic yet delicious
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All the Fentiman's drinks are very slightly alcoholic, which in the case of most of the soft drinks is more than usual and in the case of the shandy probably less.
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I think I'll have to keep an eye out for them--they sound tasty.
This reminds me of one of the things I found slightly odd in Sweden and Norway. Although there seemed to be fairly severe controls on the strength of beer,* they also had something called lättöl which was about 2% ABV and seemed to be treated as a soft drink, with shops keeping it in the same cases as cola and mineral water.**
Perhaps it's simply a matter of them assuming their teenage boys are bright enough to realise that trying to get drunk on something like that isn't going to work very well.
*Starköl, which as as I understand it means "strong beer" (I don't think I'm being led astray by Scots...) was something like 3.5 or 4% ABV. I'm not some sort of maniac for high alcohol beer, but that just doesn't seem quite on to me. Of course, the hardcore traditionalist handpump partisan part of me is saying something like "What do you expect from people who brew almost nothing but pale lager?"
All joking aside, it does seem strange to me that they do that when their water is very soft and would be much better for brewing malty brown beers. I'd imagine their breweries must go through a lot of brewing salts.
**I don't know if they would have sold it to children, but it didn't appear as if there was any control on it at all.
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*ducks*
I recommend the Dandelion and Burdock. A friend used it as a mixer, but I can't remember what with.
I've had absinthe once; it put me into a kind of rigor mortis, and the next day, I could feel my brain cells popping like bubble wrap. Never again!
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. . . I should have thought of that.
A friend used it as a mixer, but I can't remember what with.
Bitter lemon and gin is like a gin and tonic with extra citrus, which I do not complain about.
I've had absinthe once; it put me into a kind of rigor mortis, and the next day, I could feel my brain cells popping like bubble wrap. Never again!
It's a great description!
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. . . I should have thought of that.
That was my first thought, in fact, upon seeing the words "Savoy Cocktail Book". Of course, I often misread your screenname as "Savoy", anyway.
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I'm glad the week didn't suck. I hope the trend continues. :)
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I quite like it!
I'm glad the week didn't suck. I hope the trend continues.
Today crashed. Maybe tomorrow will recover.