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[john bell]

Absinthe was a problem in France so the French Government outlawed it. A 
certain Mr Pernod eventually went to the government and suggested that 
if he made a weaker solution and called it something else perhaps they 
could legalise his new drink. They agreed and Pernod at 45% was born.
In the UK Absinthe was never a problem so they never declared it 
illegal, and it is still legal now. The fact is nobody drinks it.
The popular aniseed drinks in France are Ricard, 51, and other cheaper 
supermarket ones (which I'm drinking at this moment). 40% and 45% proof 
are available here, both disgusting without water added at 5:1 or 
thereabouts.

Slurp slurp

73/51 John

On 04/10/2011 00:00, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> "I am told the real stuff ( very hard to obtain) still has Wormwood in
> it but if you like that sot of thing Try Pastis,Ouzo,or some such
> aniseed flavoured spirit.I am told the original was somewhat mind
> bending I a, sure that I only have had a pale imitation"
>
> Actually, they all have wormwood in them, some more than others.  Mind
> bending?  No, never was, other than the alcohol, the wormwood was a bad
> rumor.  About 120 years ago or so, some twit went on a bender, drank
> everything in sight and went on a murderous rampage.  Investigators
> discovered the clown had drunk everything he could find, including Absinthe.
> Several days, maybe even weeks after the fact, a newspaper ran an article
> explaining that the Absinthe was the cause.  It could have just as well be
> red wine, white wine, whiskey, or nothing at all that caused the guy to go
> overboard, but the newspaper, having little information and not being part
> of the investigation, focused on the Absinthe.  The story grew to the point
> that until 1990 Absinthe was illegal in every country except Czechoslovakia.
> Why not there?  Because they had an entirely different liquor by that name.
> Years ago, several bottles of "original" Absinthe was obtained by several
> liquor producers and analyzed.  Not surprisingly the amount of wormwood
> varied from little to none at all.
>
> There IS something FAR more deadly in Absinthe, DHMO:
>
> http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/dhmo.htm
>
> Kurt
>
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