I'm waiting for name to be mentioned with consumption on the dreaded green liquid.

I have tried it, and not the pathetic UK stuff either. It's an aquired taste, I'll say that much! Makes muppet bbq's and camping lots of fun though!


As for who brought it to camping, well, Rich might have brought some along too, but I know my car certainly contained the proper muppet stuff, left over from the bbq!

[Edited by Markus - 6/1/2003 2:18:58 AM]

 

Hello

Has anyone ever tried Absinthe?

Kronenbourg a releasing a new drink (here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030530/80/e16aa.html) which is causing trouble with the "hallucinogenic absinthe"!

Steve.

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[Edited by boxst - 5/31/2003 10:15:14 AM]

 

yes, with skunk - never agaian, I thought I was going to die.

 

MJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!

"For God sake take me quick"................. been there once never again.

 

Yes. most versions in the uk are the womens drinks without wormwood in though. You have to do a bit of searching to find the proper stuff. And after you do, youll never want to find it again.

 

Ive got a bottle downstairs.. only had tow drinks of it.. It now stays downstairs..

David

 

It's evil stuff.

 

Didn't somebody take some to Muppet Camp last year?

 

I do believe it was RichS.....I got two lots of absinthe, one from the cup I was drinking from.....the other courtesly sprayed all over my lower half by the fookin' rebel known as Crush.

I have vague glimpses of consciousness and remember being very, very ill the next morning.....(it doesn't mix well with other drinks ).

 

It messed me up well one night

 

It sends you mental if you have too much. My friday night benders(diff to Katana's LOL) are already bad enough without that stuff.

 

if ya wanna be violenty ill then go ahead and drink it...

 

We done a bottle between four of us just b4 new year.

The next day in the paper carried a story about a guy dying after 4 shots in about 3 hours!!!!!!!!!

We were drinking it the 'proper' way with sugar and fire as well!!

Felt fine after a can of Irn Bru the next morning.

 

Well i can vouch for it giving hallucinations......

scary stuff....nowt gets you f*cked like absinthe

 

You need to go to a MUPPET BBQ

 

I've tried this one

'Over the past year there have been a great number of products arriving on the market called "Absinthe." These bear no resemblance to the genuine taste or rituals of 19th Century French Absinthe. Marie-Claude Delahaye, absinthe historian for almost 20 years, has taken up the challenge of producing an authentic Absinthe as close a possible to the 19th Century original.'

'La Fée captures the aroma and taste that great writers and artists such as Verlaine, Rimbaud, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh enjoyed back at the turn of the 19th Century.'

La Fée Absinthe 68%

Not sure that i would drink it again though.

 

i believe my mate was knocked out after 2 shots of it, but i don't think he took it right, your not suppose to take it as a straight shot are you? got told by one of my other mates who was somewhere else at the time. he said something about having salt or something like that.

 

You don't usually drink it straight. You put some sugar on a spoon over the glass and pour ice cold water over the sugar. The drink should turn a very light green milky colour. I had 2 shots and it didn't seem that strong, i just remember the very strong smell of aniseed.

 

You are supposed to fill a teaspoon with sugar and pour a little absinthe on it.
then set light to the spoon.
then tip that into the glass of it and stir it about and then drink it..
makes a difference

Drink it neat- then wait about 4 seconds for the burn in the stomach and throat.

Evil stuff

 

sounds cool with the sugar will have to give that a go, I usually just drink it straight. Love the stuff.

 

Got 4 bottles in the cupboard, drank half a bottle on xmas day, slept most of boxing day

It actually gets harder the more you drink, as trying to balance a sugar cube, pour absinthe over it, and then set fire to it, and remembering to put it out before you drink it too, after several of them

Try it with 4parts absinthe 3 parts Kentucky Bourbon & 3 parts Gin, mixed with crushed ice

 

This recipe is also useful at removing Stubborn hard to get wall paper when redecorating... or wheatabix which has dried onto a bowel having been left over night <----- this subatance is also the hardest known to man..

Dan

 

Had it once, can't really make out the big deal lol, never did anything to me, was as sober as anything and perfectly fine Maybe i'll try it again sometime, see if it works how it should work this time hehe

 

I had it once .....with the whole sugar and fire thing
EVIL $hit!!!!
got into 2 fights ...blacked out and was sick for a week after it
NEVER again!!!

 

Markus and Andy 420 seemed to quite like the stuff.
It's true about the blindess - Andy nearly poked his eye out after lurching 10 feet across the garden into a hedge

 

i did 1/2 big bottle After shock before, 1st time id passed out before 11

Si

 

blue aftershock sends Andy Tang well loopy !!!!
not tried the green but the red is nasty

 

Try not to touch Absinthe any more. Had 5 shots of it along with a sh*t load of other drinks on a night out in Tenerife. I have never felt so rough the day after.

Had some New Years Eve this year - again about 5-6 shots and got hammered. Its like drinking paint stripper. Never again.

Simon.

 

It was the red stuff.

Think it equated to 10-17 shots of the stuff over 4hours, i was in a right state.

My mate only got through a 1/4 of it

Si

 

aftershock isn't so bad....well the blue one anyway, leaves a burning sensation in your mouth for a few minutes then it goes.