I've just ordered some absinthe.....

[ayceejay]

I prefer Nitromors meself. way more effcient.

 

[vernon]

Taste-wise, absinthe is much like pastis (Pernod or Ricard, etc.), and is drunk the same way, turning greenish-white when you add water.
In France, you can buy a version of it that doesn't have the chemicals that send you mad. I think it's called 'Absent', or something like that.

Not all absinthes taste like pastis. The Czech ones certainly don't.

There's a whole range of myths built around the Thujone content of Wormwood being responsible for the subsequent doo lally behaviour of imbibers. It's much lower than received wisdom proclaims and what is often overlooked is the stratospheric proof rating of the drink. Most folk would hallucinate and lose: consciousness, track of time and themselves drinking a similar strength white cane spirit/poteen/vodka/gin.

DAMHIK

 

[ComedyPilot]

Never tried absinthe (that I can remember), but I have had a spirit called Escorial, which was lit in the glass (like Sambuca)

That was like fire water, so god knows what Absinthe is like?

 

[vernon]

Never tried absinthe (that I can remember), but I have had a spirit called Escorial, which was lit in the glass (like Sambuca)

That was like fire water, so god knows what Absinthe is like?

The fire trick bigs up the booze. Any standard spirit will burn in a glass.

DAMHIK

 

[Dangermouse]

Never tried it, just what is it, some sort of Vodka

 

[Archie_tect]

It's a hydro-carbon preservative that stops liver function.

 

[palinurus]

I was drinking some at a gathering last year, there was this young filmmaker there who looked at the bottle and said 'I don't drink stuff labelled with a skull and crossbones'.

Fair enough.

 

[palinurus]

I talked at length, very quickly and very loudly to everyone around me for the next quarter of an hour.

I done that, only for longer.

 

[Archie_tect]

....ah the finest French wine, you mean - and also prevents car radiators from freezing

Mon Dieu! ....you aren't planning a Tour cette an? You'll get blockaded at Calais for such libel and end up camping on the M20.
...wasn't that Austrian white wine?

 

[hotfuzzrj]

On my first ever ladies' rugby tour (@theclaud - I'm going to try and fit it in every post!!) the tour Judge made us drink a drink she called Merry Stuff. It was just Pernod and red Aftershock. I don't know how much worse absinthe would make me but this was rank.
I then took some on one of my tours when I was Judge and I have never been able to get the stink out. Had to throw it away :-( The smell of Pernod still makes me feel queasy!

 

[Archie_tect]

So, ladies' rugby tours also endorse drinking excessive amounts of alcohol to promote team bonding?

 

[Gravity Aided]

I done that, only for longer.

As did I, only everybody else was also talking quickly and loudly, but I heard it all.