Ah, yes. The good ol’ fashioned propane party.
I have never been as hammered as after drinking propane spiked Cool-Aide. Thing was, I could never taste any alcohol in it. Pure grain alcohol has no flavor; liquor (as do all alcoholic beverages) derive their flavor from the inherent congeners. And there just aren’t any.
Propane comes in two varieties: Everclear and Crystal Clear. The latter being a mere 180 proof. Regardless, the difference is trivial (two shots for one).
One really has to be careful of drinking the stuff straight, in that imbibing a whole shot at once will put one at risk of instant dessication of an antire layer of epithelials in the mouth, gums, palatte, esophogus. Never happened to me, but I was warned that an entire layer would just slough off in one huge gummy mass. Yummy.
The one thing that I always found fascinating was ingesting a tablespoon of it: in goes liquid having a consistancy of water, and within seconds there’s absolutely nothing left to swallow.
True tale of the early Sixties:
Broken down pick up. Way outside of Barstow. In July.
Only liquid available for about three hours was
(A) in the radiator,
(B) 151 Bacardi.
Didn't try drinking from (A) and didn't succeed in swallowing from (B).
PS: To all - am I the only Balvenie fan in FR?
Crystal Clear
That's the stuff I chugged down one long-ago Saturday night. My 'friend' handed me the bottle and said, "Bet ya can't drink this!" I could not breathe after the last swallow!
Luckily I'd eaten three hits of blotter acid about an hour beforehand, otherwise I might have passed out...