Doesn't Jeeves' famous corpse reviver have egg whites and Pernod in it?
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I'm going to take this thread to 1,000 all by myself!
I drank sufficiently last night that the idea of this makes me rather nauseous.
I would order this in a bar in the evening. I'm not sure why it's necessarily a morning drink, other than as an excuse to have drinks in the morning.
Doesn't Jeeves' famous corpse reviver have egg whites and Pernod in it?
The one he makes which persuades Bertie to hire him is a pretty standard prairie oyster, IIRC. Maybe he has a range of them for different occasions.
The idea of Pernod makes me rather nauseous.
7: pretty standard prairie oyster
Huh, maybe I'm confusing it with a totally different source then.
Down in Georgia,
At hog-killin' time,
You can buy that pork,
A pound for a dime,
Some like the knuckles,
And some like the ears,
But the most of them folx,
They loves his gears!
Doesn't Jeeves' famous corpse reviver have egg whites and Pernod in it?
There is a drink called "the corpse reviver" made with lemon juice, lillet, gin, and Cointreau in equal proportion and a very small amount of pastis (which is very tasty), but I don't think its recipe canonically includes an egg white. You could add one, though, I guess; it doesn't really affect the flavor.
It's not nice to make fun of the impaired.
It's not nice to use your powers to make corrections.
You should use your powers to make errors.
I have limited powers so I can only use them to make squares and cubes.
Apparently "power" ("dunamis") was used in that signification already in ancient Greece.
This drink looks good. Think it's OK to sub grapefruit for the lemon and lime? If so, I can make it without leaving the house.
I give you my permission, k-sky, with the condition that you must report back on the results.
Tragically, absinthe has been disappearing from liquor store shelves around here. As in, maybe the liquor control commission is dropping most of the brands, which would suck because they're the buying agent for the state, and special orders take forever. Maybe all those gay people in the 'Couve know where I can get some up there.
Good luck with getting some; I hope you find some absinthe, too.
I had Cadbury Creme Eggs for breakfast! They were leftovers from Easter.
22. My sympathy. Stanley doesn't know the pain of having a state liquor asshole who makes the decision about what you can buy easily.
I had a corpse reviver Thursday night, and then a champagne cocktail composed almost entirely of bitters. First time I've ever sent a cocktail back, or really anything I ordered, as far as I can think.
The idea of Pernod makes me rather nauseous.
Is pernod what flavors a sazerac of anise? I think that came out syntactically weird. Anyway I had a sazerac at the first meetup I went to and enjoyed it well enough and ever since then the thought of any anise-flavored cocktail makes me positively turn green. I must have really hated you all or something.
26: And to think we could have made that bartender like us. No fear; we can go to this place I went to last night where a lovely young man named Brandon really cares about your cocktail experience. He kept checking in with us to ask us how we felt about the drinks we received, and to tell us where he gets his ideas.
Is pernod what flavors a sazerac of anise?
Pernod or something like it, yes.
Strange that he spends so much time talking about the eggs and doesn't even hint as to what sort of absinthe to use. French, Spanish, Swiss, or, God forbid, Czech? Sweet or bitter? High alcohol or low alcohol?
Oh, and since this seems like an appropriate thread, I've been meaning to ask for ages: what's a fluid ounce in foreign units?
There's low-alcohol absinthe?
what's a fluid ounce in foreign units?
29.5735296 ml
0.000124007937 hogsheads
0.00030944573 cubic cubits
The cubic cubit is the best measure for cucurba.
29: If I'm ever deeply bored, I will try to learn why every country in Europe has its own anise flavored liqueur and whether any of them taste good enough to drink before you get to the Old Milwaukee Light.
The reason I'll wait until I'm deeply bored is because I'm fairly confident the answers are "because nobody had anything else to flavor stuff with" and "no."
I will try to learn why every country in Europe has its own anise flavored liqueur
Yeah, and how come they all have their own wines, too?
why every country in Europe has its own anise flavored liqueur
Why do you hate the Middle East and North Africa?
I think a better comparison would be hops in beer. Wine doesn't have anything added just for flavor, but both the anise and hops are there to make stuff that is required to get you drunk taste better. They don't get you drunker in and off themselves.
What's the deal with marc and grappa? What about kirsch vs. cseresznye palinka? How come all these different countries have their own versions of slivovitz? And don't get me started on mirabellenbrand!
Wine doesn't have anything added just for flavor
Except, you know, for the grapes.
The grapes are what is fermented, not a separate flavoring.
You may have observed that winemakers don't just toss in whatever grapes they have lying around.
(Or, to the extent that they do, they've already taken steps to ensure that only certain grapes are lying around.)
One could also argue that the hops are just added for their preservative effect. That's why, or so they say, IPAs are hoppier than other beers.
43: I drink boxed wines made from the finest Concord grapes grown in New York state. In terms of gallons, I wouldn't be surprised that winemakers have pretty much tossed in whatever grapes they could grow the most of in that area.
I'd always thought that anise seeds grew from (or into) the plant that also gave us finocchio. Wikipedia says I'm wrong. Plus there is another plant from India called liquorice and they all taste like the kind of Twizzlers my mom would buy when she wanted to keep us kids from eating it all.
Maybe all those gay people in the 'Couve know where I can get some up there.
It appears that "ABSENTE ABSINTHE REFINED LIQ" is available in Vancouver, I didn't check all of the absinthes.
I don't think Poles or Russians have anise flavored drinks, and thank god for that. (I don't like anise, I don't like fennel, I don't like anything with that flavor.) Talking about grappa and marc, when did those become luxury items? Vague memories of my teenage years suggest that marc was the Francophone equivalent of cheap vodka up through the late eighties with a taste suggestive of paint remover bouquet. Nowadays you go into a wine store and it costs well more than good quality vodka.
What grows through cold winters and isn't toxic when concentrated & would taste better than anise? Juniper, dill botth can be toxic. Mint. Wormwood. Borage?
What grows through cold winters and isn't toxic when concentrated & would taste better than anise?
Winona Ryder's nipple.
Juniper and dill can be toxic?! Gotta avoid that gravlax I guess. And boiled potatoes in Poland. In any case, who cares if it grows through a cold winter, once you put something into a spirit it'll last just fine.
Looks like the favorite to be the next French president is politically dead[*], at least I hope he is. DSK, head of the IMF, just got himself arrested on sexual assault charges at JFK, after attempting to rape a maid at an NYC hotel, then suddenly running for the airport after she ran from his room. I'd considered linking to this Guardian op-ed the other day that said that good mature French voters don't care about DSK's playboy rep, but decided we could probably use a break from rape discussion. But what struck me about it was the lack of distinction between cheating on your spouse, hitting on any woman you meet, including subordinates, and rapey behaviour. The first, who cares, and in this case that goes even on a personal level since I strongly suspect it's an open marriage. The second is quite sleazy, but on the edge of acceptability. The last on the other hand is a different story for me and I found it strange that the author seemed to see this anecdote as simply just another case of a person who sleeps around:
There was a fuss last year when a young French author, Tristane Banon, described her encounter with him. She explained that she had interviewed him for a book about public figures and their missteps, and claimed she had to fight him off physically. She said she hadn't made a complaint at the time, because she didn't want to be "the girl who had a problem with a politician".
*I blame unfogged for the fact that my initial reaction on seeing the news was the somewhat disturbing under the circumstances 'NMM to DSK's political career'.
There's low-alcohol absinthe?
It's all relative of course. I've had absinthes ranging from 40% ABV to 90% ABV and several brands come in a 40% and a 70%.
The wines all taste different.
So do the absinthes. I've got three different types in my licquor rack at the moment, which is on the low end for me, and they might as well be completely different spirits for for all that they taste alike.
what's a fluid ounce in foreign units?
An Imperial fluid ounce is fractionally smaller than an American one: 28ml and change.
28 makes me want to smack Brandon in the mouth.
*enough* of some of the aromatics in juniper and dill can be toxic. I'm not sure you could eat enough of the bulk matter for it to hurt you.
Whether something grows north of the Mediterranean determines whether it could make up a common pleasure there, and there are just more aromatics in hotter places. That's why the spice trade! I should have said, grows through a cold winter or ripens in a short summer.