Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy, Pernod is pastis, and it is a wonderful apertif, full of flavour, and it essential to the culture of the South of France. Cheers Jayanand G Hopkinson wrote: >Jayanand, I think you are correct. However the danger may have been >overstated. Another theory advanced was that its excessive >consumption was degrading the French populace! >"Absinthe was the drink of choice among artist and writers in the mid to >late 19th century. It inspired poets and appeared in works >by Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh. It was drank by the scandalous >playwright Oscar Wilde, the eccentric Toulouse-Lautrec, the >poets Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allen Poe, and the famous 20th century >author Ernest Hemingway, just to mention a few". > Probably because it became forbidden, it acquired a mystique and > desirability for some folks. I haven't tried it, nor Pastis(?) But >I know my wife occasionally likes to sip Pernod which also has an aniseed >flavour. For whatever reason it was no longer restricted >for import in Australia about 6 years ago. I guess there are far worse >things for people to imbibe. >Absinthe was the drink of choice among artist and writers in the mid to >late19th century. It inspired poets and appeared in works by >Pablo Picasso (left) and Vincent Van Gogh (right). It was drank by the >scandalous playwright Oscar Wilde, the eccentric >Toulouse-Lautrec, the poets Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allen Poe, and the >famous 20th century author Ernest Hemingway, just to >mention a few. > >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 >Jayanand Govindaraj >Sent: Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:47 >To: Leica Users Group >Subject: Re: [Leica] Party pics and such > >I thought absinthe was illegal because of all that wormwood...and the >nearest legal equivalent was pastis. >Cheers >Jayanand > >G Hopkinson wrote: > > > >>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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >>___________________________________________________________ >>Yahoo! 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