24-06-2014, 01:43 AM
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Re: Favourite summer drink?
Originally Posted by lilac
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I do love gin..Went to Den Haag..had some 15 year old gin..bloody awful..didn't know whether to drink it or dab it behind my ears!!
Can't drink rum either after a rather unfortunate incident (probably similar to MKJs) when I was on a PO training course at Bletchley Park when I was about 16. Aversion training works.
When I was in my late teens and early 20s however I used to drink vodka neat. Funny how your tastes change over time.
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24-06-2014, 02:04 PM
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Re: Favourite summer drink?
Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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A little tale: - 31 years ago was out in Siberia (in January). Daytime temperature was -35 o C - it went down further when the sun went down at 3.00pm. Part of what I was doing necessitated a three day ride on the Trans-Siberian railway. In the next compartment to me was a Russian Farmer and his family - he invited me for a drink, pulled out a holdall with several bottles of colourless liquid with no labels on. He poured a large swig in plastic cup and had one for himself - Nostravia - and downed it in one swallow. I did the same. Ten minutes later they peeled me from the ceiling and I was able to whisper again. What I had been drinking was (literally) bath-tub home brew Vodka. It was that strong it would be quite possible to fuel jet engines with it. - Lethal stuff!!!
In it's raw, uncut state it's often 160 proof so you have to cut it one-to-two-parts water, lime cordial and water or you can use Coke or even lemonade if you want.
Even then it's still powerful stuff and we tried it in a Chevrolet pick-up once and it actually ran half a mile before it seized up!
A much nicer drink is Oozo - I tried that out in the bay off Dubai on a Greek freighter - can't remember the trip home at all though.
Likewise Ricard, which is a favoured aniseed Pastis in Marseilles - we had it in the Lucky Strike bar on board a French derrick barge in the Arabian Gulf in the 70s.
Only the French had alcohol offshore - everyone else banned it.
Sneaks up on you Ricard and the French tend to drink it in long, tall glasses packed with ice with beer chasers.
After one particularly heavy evening on Ricard / Beer I went up on deck in the morning with a stonking headache, walked to the end of the barge and jumped in the gulf.
Bit of a shock as I surfaced to find that chef had emptied the food waste bins and the surface at the back of the barge was covered with sea snakes!
Sobers you up pretty quick!
Bruce - Bletchley Park is one-and-a-half miles from where I live!! stevmk2
24-06-2014, 02:54 PM
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Re: Favourite summer drink?
I go for no added sugar (NAS) soft drinks. Lemonade with lime cordial, or a few squirts of Jif lemon juice, dandelion and burdock, diet coke with lime cordial or lemon, cream soda, bitter lemon, bitter shandy with lime cordial, and also a cranberry something or other from Asda (bitter? I forget) but it's with the mixers.And always always served with ice cubes. In the case of cream soda, with ice cream too. Yummmmmm.
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