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Absinthe Is Back
Time ^ | Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 | CAROLYN SAYRE

Posted on 11/29/2007 6:25:03 PM PST by uglybiker

Want to party like it's 1899? Well, now you can--sort of. After nearly a century-long ban on absinthe in the U.S., a federal agency has begrudgingly allowed two European distillers to sell the mysterious liquor Stateside. Renowned for its supposedly hallucinogenic effects, the anise-flavored alcohol was rumored to have caused an epidemic of psychosis in France in the late 1800s--most infamously, leading Vincent van Gogh to cut off his ear.

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Regardless of exactly how potent absinthe is or isn't, Lehrman says one thing is certain: "If you drink three bottles, you are going to do something stupid."

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TOPICS: Food; History; Society
KEYWORDS: absinthe; alcohol
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To: uglybiker
If you drink thre bottles of Jim Beam you're going to do somehting stupid.

21 posted on 11/29/2007 7:31:47 PM PST by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Absinthe_Minded

ping!


22 posted on 11/29/2007 7:35:35 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: William Terrell

Never made it that far, myself. :-P


23 posted on 11/29/2007 7:41:43 PM PST by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: uglybiker
Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

Also known as "the next morning".

So I've been told.

24 posted on 11/29/2007 7:42:53 PM PST by Lizavetta ( Politicians: When they're speaking, they're lying - when they're not speaking, they're stealing.)
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To: William Terrell
If you have drank three bottles of Jim Beam you have done something stupid.

I once drank a bottle of White Horse Scotch and chased it with a fifth of Wild Turkey...and was sick a week.

25 posted on 11/29/2007 7:52:24 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: weegee; Clemenza
Buy it and you'll only get burned. It is another "near beer".

Maybe, maybe not.

Analyses were performed on a sample of vintage Pernod fils circa 1900, a sample of absinthe produced by a home distiller and two modern commercial absinthes produced by traditional methods in Pontarlier, France by using 19th century protocols. The vintage Pernod absinthe is shown to have the lowest concentration of total thujone of any of the samples tested and the highest is found in the Swiss sample, but even this was lower than the EU limit of 35 mg/l for thujone in bitters.

Table 1 Analysis of absinthe by GLC

Sample...........................................................Thujone mg/l...............Anethole mg/l

Private distillation.....................................................25.............................956
Vintage Pernod fils circa. 1900..................................6............................1400
Emile Pernot 45%.....................................................8............................1053
Un Emile 68%.........................................................10.............................792

26 posted on 11/29/2007 7:54:19 PM PST by uglybiker (relaxing in a luxuriant cloud of quality, aromatic, pre-owned tobacco essence)
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To: Clemenza
Give me more Grappa!

I lived in a town where the same factory made Grappa and Portland cement. True story.

27 posted on 11/29/2007 9:11:44 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Clemenza

Does it taste anything like Ouzo?


28 posted on 11/29/2007 9:15:08 PM PST by 04-Bravo
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To: SevenofNine

29 posted on 11/29/2007 9:21:01 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: uglybiker; monkapotamus; All

Looter guy going be so happy LOL!


30 posted on 11/29/2007 9:49:11 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

What a relief. There’s only this one bottle left here, and on the label it sez, “best if used by September 1901.” ;’)


31 posted on 11/29/2007 10:01:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, November 27, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: uglybiker
But despite years of research discrediting the transcendental effects, new bottles can be sold in the U.S. only if they are classified as thujone-free.

Not really worth drinking then....

32 posted on 11/29/2007 10:04:35 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (Peace Through Light)
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To: Army Air Corps

That scene was hilarious.

I know a guy who drank some one time. He said after a couple of hours he was seeing little green men hiding behind things then jumping out and waving to him.

He was with a friend camping and when he got back to the tent his buddy had a can of bug spray and a lighter and was completely freaked out. My friend said ‘Dude what are you doing’ and his buddy said, ‘Dude, don’t you see the giant mosquitos?! I’m going to get those muthaf’ers this time!’


33 posted on 11/29/2007 10:46:50 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy.)
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To: HAL9000

Some of my friends still hand it (White Lightning) to me in Mason Jars.

You must live too far North. :-)


34 posted on 11/30/2007 2:13:41 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: PeteB570

Too far South, actually. The moonshiners are up in the hills. I’m down in the swamp.


35 posted on 11/30/2007 2:17:38 AM PST by HAL9000 (Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)
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To: Free Vulcan

That is a pretty funny story! I can see some dude sitting in his tent trying to kill the giant mosquitoes.

Maybe some maker of Absinthe will print the following on their labels: “This s**t will mess you up.” It would further boost sales.

I recall reading a story about Absinthe a year to two ago. The story stated that people in the states were going to Canada for the purpose of drinking Absinthe that was not Thujone-free.


36 posted on 11/30/2007 6:34:07 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Clemenza
Tastes a bit like licorice (anise, really). I like licorice.

How does it compare to ouzo?

37 posted on 11/30/2007 6:37:40 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: monkapotamus

He gets around.


38 posted on 11/30/2007 9:54:08 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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To: uglybiker

Whenever I hear “absinthe” I think about “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. What a great classic that is!


39 posted on 11/30/2007 10:01:06 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: weegee
It only takes half a bottle of jagermeister to arrive at the same result.

Jager - a Dave Attell fan perchance?
40 posted on 11/30/2007 6:01:38 PM PST by Caramelgal (Rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words or superficial interpretations)
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