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[Bob Nielsen]

Thinking about this again, it was Pernod Ricard which bought out Allied Domecq (which at the time owned Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, later spun off).

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> Oh, you are making me thirsty,
> 
> I have a bottle of Pernod here which is 40%.  Perhaps it has changed over the years.  Maybe I should only cut it at 4:1 to compensate (actually I never measure, just pour),
> 
> Several years ago I had some Pernod Ricard stock.  I only had it for a few months until they were bought out but I made ~50% profit.
> 
> 73, Bob N7XY
> SOC #77
> 
> On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:25 PM, john bell wrote:
> 
>> 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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