Le Sabot Post-Moderne

As a post-structuralist fundamentalist, may I recommend that vodka leaves no traces on the breath and is known to improve the quality of any music you listen to by at least 20%?

It hides very nicely in a bit of orange juice, and for extra insurance you could wear (flashback!) Drakkar Noire, guaranteed to make all other scents inoffensive by comparison.

Glad that your kids were such clear exceptions to media bias. :-)

Cheers,
PGE

OMGosh. I still have a bottle of Drakkar in storage somewhere. . . It was kind of ubiquitous back when, wasn't it. . .

Mmmm. Vodka. I miss Ukrainian hot pepper vodka. I'm going to have to find a supplier here. It's great for cold evenings outdoors.

Yeah, it occurred to me that I needed to be taking a different tack on vodka when talking to someone who'd spent time in Ukraine.

I've seen hot pepper vodka stateside, but I don't think I've tried it. Shucks, in Japan I'd have to go quite out of my way to get anything but Smirnoff.

Would be hard to hide *that* in OJ, though.

But the Drakkar would cover a multitude of sins. I quite liked the stuff, back in the day, though I had a manager who could knock you over from ten feet away with the strength of his cologne.

Cheers,
PGE

I thought your kids were homeschooled. You are Tulipgirl's hubby, right?

Gem,

Our families have a long history of homeschooling. I was homeschooled. I was the primary teacher for Hubby's h/s'd younger siblings. And until this year, we h/s'd our boys. We're still big h/s supporters.

But this year, our boys are in school.

Howdy, TulipGirl! Checking in on hubby's vice-prone friends? ;-)

On a completely unrelated note--Disco-dude, did you happen to consider the *other* frame of reference in which "sabot" has an interesting and appropriate meaning?

That would be an OOPS.

Link for sabot is here.

PG-

Yep, I was infantry in my younger days. . . While I didn't hang around tankers that much I did learn about sabots. :)

Other than sake, what sorts of non-Western liquors do that have there?

Have you tried absinthe, btw? The Duchess and I had absinthe in Prague awhile back. Bite, man, it's got bite.

Disco-

Can you wait till March? Won't be a lot of cold nights in Florida by then, granted.

PG-

You tried Zubrowka? A Polish brand with a bison on the label. One of my editors used to live in Japan, where he developed a fondness for the stuff. Try it mixed with apple juice.

Lib-

"Can you wait till March?"

Sure I can, I could quit any time I wanted. . . Oh! You mea you could bring me over some. Sure! :)

It'll be great to have you here. A little surreal though, not to have downtown Kiev for the backdrop.

Oh! One of the Speeding Lisa guys just sent me an email. He's shipping me an anniversary t-shirt.

First tried Zubrowka in the Netherlands. Very interesting stuff, and, yeah, I've had it in Japan, too--and the States. Waco's top liquor store had a very good vodka selection, and I drank little else for a long time (then I discovered Old Weller, a very fine bourbon, and also my Scotch-drinking friends got to me).

Absinthe--yeah. bite. hehe. I picked some up in Prague, myself. Had just the tiniest bit in my hotel in Budapest (upon reflection, it's a good thing my bags weren't searched more carefully, isn't it?)--lip instantly went numb, tongue tingly. Since the TV I'd been flipping around on had just come up with Silence of the Lambs, and I didn't think psychotropic compounds and Hannibal Lecter were a good mix, that was the extent of my thulone experience. Would be an interesting drink to share, though, I imagine!

Of course, I keep hearing from people who "tried absinthe in a bar in London," and I hate to tell 'em they didn't have anything more powerful than Peppermint Schnapps, but y'all who've done Eastern Europe know better--and better than I!

Shucks, now I'm really getting hungry to visit there again (I think I can claim as much as 4 days in Eastern Europe), and I hain't even gone back from Japan yet, y'getit?

Cheers,
PGE

Actually, aside from sake, most Japanese drink beer--and they have a surprisingly decent domestic beer industry, with three major companies whose top offerings are quite palatable, and a fair number of smaller brews here and there.

There is a (variety of) beverage called shu-cho (or something like that, my Japanese is poor), which is like a lot of schnapps/vodka I saw in Germany/Poland/Czech that we wouldn't call vodka in the states: made from various kinds of fruit, not so aggressively distilled as the 80 proof, but definitely stronger than wine, and likely to give nasty hangovers. Most foreigners don't drink it, and most Japanese don't recommend it, but they must drink it sometimes--the stores are full of it. I suspect it is the "cheap liquor" in the Japanese tradition, though of course sake can be pretty cheap, too (and also has the nasty-hangover problem, should one over-indulge).

Mixed with soda-water, and possibly a smidge of fruit juice, over ice, though, it can create a remarkably refreshing and slightly treacherous beverge called the chu-hi, which is my favorite drink when the summer humidity makes beer seem too heavy.

Of course, it's fun to go into foreigner bars and find the "local color" drinks that are made strictly for foreigners--like the one called the "Samurai" that is a mix of shu-cho and sake, something that makes Japanese bartenders smirk.

Cheers,
PGE

I think it's shochu, not shucho. Good grief.

私は日本語をじょおずにはなしません。ごめなさい。

watashi wa nihongo wo joozu ni hanashimasen. gomenasai.

sayounara,
PGE

"There is a (variety of) beverage called shu-cho . . . I suspect it is the "cheap liquor" in the Japanese tradition"

Maybe that's Boone's Farm translated into Japanese? :)

If I ever make it over there, we'll have to do a pup crawl. Japan is definitely on my short-list, along with Uzbekistan, Italy and Turkey.

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