Posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.
Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.
The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …
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the last Monday in office of our first half-black President.
(Fixed it because hopefully some day we will have a real one who won’t destroy the country..)
Something stirring at Nellis?
Or is the Bureau of incompetent Land Management invading another ranch?
Yes. Yes I am.
He’s not even half black. He’s half white, but 43% sub-Saharan Arab and 7% black, which makes his Affirmative Action application and acceptance a hugh joke.
He had plans to Islamize America, make no doubt about that. And he was close. Brennan is a Muslim... (CIA)
I don’t know. While I was outside (45 minutes) I saw an additional five choppers heading southeast. They could have come from Nellis, but they were too far away to see if they were Military Green.
Maybe they were headed for Luke? No Se’.
I went to check the mail and Charlie told me there were some Tater Tots and Traitor Taters at the clubhouse, so I went up and got a bag, since he seemed loath to part with the ones he had. The bags are HUGH! I suspect I’ll be eating baked potato concoctions for a couple of months!
It’s such a beautiful day, right now, but the barometer and the storm glass are indicating bad things are on the way. And that’s what the weather prevaricators are saying as well. For once, they agree with me!
And dang me! I forgot to get eggs this morning! GAH!
So, the chicken came first?
I got eggs. The family eats about half a dozen per day.
I don’t think the percentages or the isms explain his dismantling of America.
I think it was the dope the dope was smoking in school.
That’s a point.
Yes..
Mostly Caucasian. Black only if using the definition of the Old South. You know, the ‘one drop of blood’ thing..
I just learned that my Aunt Ruth died today, my mother’s older sister. She was 85 and was in rehab after a fall.
Sorry to hear that. Hows your mother taking it?
Prayers for comfort..
I use enough eggs on a regular basis to miss not buying them. Some days, I’ll just have hard boiled eggs, and other days, I’ll make something with eggs, or just fry them up.
I wouldn’t eat fried eggs when I was a really short person, but I like them as an adult.
On FB: a chicken cowering in an alley, while a chunk of roadway with the center stripe in it comes by with a glare on its face. Caption? “I shouldn’ta crossed him!”
He did it because he could, and he had people to help him.
I’m sorry to hear of your aunt. It’s always so hard for oldsters to recover after body trauma.
And so kiddos, I’ve done enough damage for one day. I’m going to get some ice water and head for bed. Tomorrow is another day. YAY!!
They were not close, but it has to leave a gap, when someone’s been your sister for almost 80 years. Thank you for your prayers.
Hope you have a good night! The group will leave for the gym shortly, and then I will clean.
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