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Subject: [Leica] What REAL MEN drink!
From: joelct at singnet.com.sg (Joseph Low)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:49:00 +0800
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Jayanand

Thanks - the name arak or arrack is actually from the Malay language  - and
is used by the Malays of Ceylon - they
were sent by the Dutch colonial masters from Indonesia and are similar to
those in Cape Town or Cape Malays

The Ceylonese arak are more refined 

Cheers / Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jayanand Govindaraj
Sent: Thursday, 6 January, 2011 11:27
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] What REAL MEN drink!

Joseph,
Yes it is - and there are many flavours here made from palm nut,
coconut and cashewnut to name a few, and like all booze, you get from
the undrinkable garbage to the triple distilled stuff that smells OK.
My favourite is one made from the Mahua flower in Central India, it
has a very delicate taste, and never gives you a hangover. When the
flowers fall off the tree, they ferment, and deer, bears and other
forest animals eat it up and get high. I have also seen elephants
drunk on rice beer in Assam creating havoc, so this is probably not
just a human thing!

A month ago I was in Sri Lanka and I picked up a bottle of aged (5
years) coconut arrack, called VSOA (Very Special Aged Arrack) - and it
is superb, with a taste to rival a decent single malt, and it cost
only US$8 a bottle!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Joseph Low <joelct at singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
> We should ask Jayanand for his take on the popular coconut tapped drink
> "Toddy" which is
> another form of moonshine or Lalangtani
>
> Joseph
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Nathan Wajsman
> Sent: Thursday, 6 January, 2011 8:40
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What REAL MEN drink!
>
> Having read this horrible story, I must say that the Puerto Rican
moonshine,
> called pitorro or ca?ita, is very tasty and does not lead to undue
> hangovers. I shall know more tomorrow, however, as I am working on a
bottle
> tonight.
>
> Cheers :-)))
>
> Nathan
>
> On 5 Jan, 2011, at 17:35 , <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> While covering the PAN AMERICAN GAMES in Indianapolis 1987 a couple of
the
> USA news photogs from the deep south had some moon shine.. ?"Hey Ted you
> ever have a taste of this good 'ol moonshine?" Said one of the lads with a
> very heavy accent of the south as he handed me a bottle of liquid.
>>
>> In my innocents, after all they'd been knocking it back like it was
water!
> I poured a big glass full and proceeded to drink it like they were doing.
> How many more??? Do you really think I have any recollection of later? :-(
> Oh suffer!
>>
>> The next morning as I tried to figure out whether I was alive and
hurting?
> Or died and hadn't quite finished dying! :-)
>>
>> I swore never ever ever again! Please let me live till noon and recovered
> and I'll never drink that stupid stuff again!
>>
>> Now most of us, those who during their lifetime have fallen to the fun of
> the evening and imbibed slightly more than we thought we were doing.
WHY???
> OH MY GOD YOU DON'T REMEMBER EITHER? :-(
>>
>> It's because we were all having such a good time, drinking was as simple
> as breathing, it came real easy! :-)
>> We lost count of how many glasses or bottles! "One more ain't goin' to
> hurt!" And we lose count! But truly it was a great evening.... I think ?
> Wasn't it?
>>
>> As I vaguely recall the Moonshine wasn't as tasteful as it appeared for
> the southern lads. Me being a single malt Scotch drinker I assume that
> influenced my taste buds. But being a polite Canadian when asked... "How
is
> it?" What else could I say but... "Hey that's very nice, how much did you
> guys bring with you?" ?Not meaning to break out another bottle, only a
> rhetorical question being polite?
>>
>> One guy reached under the table and pulled out a box with at least a
dozen
> bottles in it! Me innocently offered. "Well that ought to do for tonight!"
> Damn I was joking! Do you know what it's like the next morning shooting a
> track event when your re-action time is so slow the winner has made two
laps
> of the track with the winning flag before you realize the race even
started!
> :-( Trust me that bad! Oh suffer suffer! NEVER AGAIN! And that night?
>>
>> Well no need to go on, just go back to the beginning of this post and
read
> it again! ;-) Photographers are actually simple minded fun creatures of
> life! :-)
>>
>> cheers and slightly wiser! :-)
>> ted
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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