Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/10
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It was unbanned here some time back, too. I think it was originally banned
because it tended to have a fair bit of methanol in it, and there were
numerous cases of Absinthe-related blindness. With modern production
techniques, it's not an issue, I guess.
Nick
----- Original Message ----
From: G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 1:06:41 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Party pics and such
Beat you to that line, Nick!
I've read about that restriction on absinthe in some countries. I always
thought that it had taken on some mysterious aura due to
the whole Van Gogh, bohemian thingy.
It was apparently taken off the banned list in Australia some years ago.
I've never tried it myself. I just read that it may be 68%
alcohol. Yikes. I'm thinking that may be more of a problem than any worries
about wormwood or whatever the evil component may be.
Just checked and that makes it marginally more alcohol by volume than
Lagavulin. And you don't have to wear a beret to drink the
single malt.
Cheers
Hoppy
-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Nick Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:34
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such
I always thought absinthe made the heart grow fonder...
Nick
----- Original Message ----
From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 12:16:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such
>>Pour your pint and chug-a-lug! Only milksops thin it with water.
>>;-)
>
>Another bartender did that for another party goer (well small cups, not
>pints), and this woman got really mad at that. That party
goer got really drunk at the end though...
The only time I have drunk absinthe, it's more than 20 years ago, we were 3
persons, and drunk a one liter bottle. We felt very
funny, laughed like mad and believed not to be sooo drunk - until we tried
to stand up from the table. We couldn't walk anymore. Had
knees like gum and creeped in our beds. The next day and the headache were
the hell. The overnext day was like next day after a
normal drinking bout. Never again!
BTW absinthe was forbidden since 100 years in our country, because of it's
aborting effect on pregnant women. But the guy who
brought the bottle had pinched it in the wine cellar of his father, a then
well known federal prosecutor...
Didier
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