[SOC] You may be a Taliban if...

[Michael Coslo]

Yeah, I heard that "real" absinth is similar in effect to tequila, in which
there seems to be "something else" going on, but whatever it is, it's a
weaker effect than an antihistamine, which is to say that if you drink
enough of it there will be an effect, but you'll mostly just be drunk.
I also heard that the wine industry lobbied heavily to have it banned. Funny
how what is old is new - the lobby business, that is.

    - Mike -


On 7/20/10 7:47 PM, "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> It had been determined several years ago that the old Absinthe was nothing
> special.  The currently made Absinthe is for the most part the same recipe
> with the same amount of wormwood.  The hype was over some twit who drank for
> a week straight, then murdered his family.  When they went to his house,
> they found an Absinthe bottle on the table and blamed it for the murderous
> rampage, rather than the several gallons equivelent of other bottles around
> the house and no evidence that the fellow had eaten anything during his
> drinking spree.  I think it had also been determined the fellow was manic as
> well.  Anyway, media being what it still is to this day, fabricated a story
> and hyped it up until Absinthe was illegal for some 110 years.
> 
> I drink "Lucid", 50/50, water/Absinthe, none of that pussy 5:1 with a sugar
> cube BS.
> 
> I was recently given a bottle of Absente from Europe in exchange for some
> computer work.  It smells good, but it's flavor is weak and it has a bitter
> aftertaste that even when made "correctly" with sugar, can't be covered.