As y’all know, it’s Lent and I have a habit of giving up all sorts of things during the season, mostly to test my willpower. So far, I have been sticking to it just fine. The worst part is looking at my Lolita glass collection and knowing I won’t be using it for over a month. This is me for the next few weeks.
Over a month, people!!!
Sure, I can use one for a water glass, and probably will. But it’s just not the same. Little One offered to add food coloring to my water to make it look like a cocktail, but I declined. Her version of what looks like a cocktail is wildly different from mine. It’s not that I have a cocktail or glass of wine every night. It’s just that wine goes in a wine glass and cocktails go in a cocktail glass and water goes in a water glass. I don’t like messing with the order of things.
Anyway, I was looking at the cocktail board on Pinterest a few days ago and it gave me pause. There were some recipes there that called for some spirits best left in the Nether World, if you get my drift. I just don’t get how some people can drink some of the liquors and liqueurs out there. Seriously.
Liquor I Will Never Drink
#5– Chartreuse™
The color is named for its hue. Neither the color nor the taste is appealing to me.
#4– Ouzo
Tastes like oily rotted anise.
#3– Grappa
Fermented grape skins were violated in the making of that stuff.
#2– Jaegermeister™
It is a digestive aid. One doesn’t drink Mylanta™ for kicks, so why drink that stuff to get tipsy?
#1– Absynthe
If I want to take a trip, I will book one through a travel agent.
As far as I’m concerned, these liquors are best used in Molotov cocktails. Your mileage may vary, but I bet some of y’all secretly agree with me.
Especially on the Jaegermeister™ 😀
Sithy Things 
March 13th, 2014 at 12:16 PM
Bacardi 151 straight from the bottle.
Having never tried any on your lists I cannot disagree with you Aggie.
March 13th, 2014 at 12:19 PM
Hm, good call on the 151. Last time I poured out some, it spontaneously combusted 😀
March 13th, 2014 at 7:38 PM
Best man at our wedding, right before, saw that I was jittery. He said “Come here, Lemur-y… I got the cure for what ails you.”
Four shots later the wedding was smooth as glass.
March 13th, 2014 at 11:02 PM
Hubby and his groomsmen all carried full flasks on our wedding day. 😀
March 14th, 2014 at 9:58 AM
We also had a drink when I was a firefighter called a “Prairie Fire”. 1-1/2 oz of 151 and a tablespoon of Tabasco.
Bartender once brought one to me and said “On the house if I can watch you drink it.”
It made sense to carry the higher proof stuff because it was more ethanol in a smaller volume in your pack.
March 15th, 2014 at 8:19 AM
Heh, on my wedding day, I had to walk away from the reception for a moment and when I walked back, my Coke tasted suspiciously of Jack mixed in. I looked over at the one groomsman I know who would have done it and he just smiled.
March 15th, 2014 at 9:45 AM
And that’s what a groomsman is there for, right?? 🙂
March 13th, 2014 at 4:34 PM
I’d be tempted to give the Absynthe a try…. Ouza and Jaeger have never made the cut as I dont have a taste for licorice.
March 13th, 2014 at 4:52 PM
If you don’t like licorice then you probably won’t like Absinthe either, it’s in the same family of flavors.
Oh, and LC it doesn’t get you high or make you crazy or anything like that. It got its reputation (and banned for a long time for it) because it got too popular for French winemakers and they launched a massive smear campaign against the liqueur.
March 13th, 2014 at 6:32 PM
I know, but it’s still gross 😀
March 13th, 2014 at 6:31 PM
Happy trippin’ if you do, Troy!
March 14th, 2014 at 8:02 AM
Well if its in the same family of flavor….nevah mind…
March 13th, 2014 at 4:59 PM
After a fifth of ouzo one wayward night in Daytona, the smell of rotten anise (not to confused with anus), sends me into paroxysms of dry heaves, even to this day
March 13th, 2014 at 6:32 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
March 13th, 2014 at 7:47 PM
Tell me you were never ok with the smell of rotten anus…
Forgive me Clete, I could not resist that. Aggie, feel free to delete this comment.
March 13th, 2014 at 11:03 PM
It shall live in infamy 😉
March 14th, 2014 at 8:37 PM
“Tell me you were never ok with the smell of rotten anus…”
Thus spake the Internet. You can now turn off the lights and unplug the damn thing.
March 14th, 2014 at 9:42 PM
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
March 13th, 2014 at 7:43 PM
I had a chance to try Chartreuse when the bar owner said it was open bar as we stripped and resurfaced his bar from 2am to 8 or 9am. Between the fumes and the alcohol we were all pretty messed up, but I tried several shots.
It was like every herb/spice related to rosemary, evergreen needles, and coriander blended together plus a hundred other things. Floral yet musty. Maybe it was Pine Sol. We were cleaning floors as well, so who knows?
I don’t think I would care to repeat it.
March 13th, 2014 at 11:02 PM
Pine Sol?? I think you are onto something there.
March 14th, 2014 at 8:41 PM
Heh. While TDY in Italy, a group of us got on a binge with grappa, then grappa in espresso. What a buzz. Next week sucked though. I kept smelling grappa, though I hadn’t gotten violently ill, saved a bottle, or spilled any on my possessions.
Turned out the cleaning personnel used rubbing alcohol to clean the woodwork in the hotel. Might have well saved my lire and drank the rubbing alcohol. And had a lovely finish, too.
March 14th, 2014 at 9:43 PM
My BIL said the same thing when he was stationed in Italy. 😀
March 15th, 2014 at 8:20 AM
Absynthe.. I want to give that a try.
#YOLO
March 15th, 2014 at 9:45 AM
I should stick voodoo pins into your heart for that 😛