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Phanatic posted:That's the spirits.
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Nov 13, 2019 17:57
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See if you can get Pusser's gunpowder proof rum too.
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Missing Name posted:See if you can get Pusser's gunpowder proof rum too. It's surprisingly hard to find at retailers here. My local tiki bar has it, but I never see it on the shelf at the liquor stores. The big difference between Pusser's and Smith & Cross is that Pusser's is the recent blend used as of Black Tot Day in 1970, while Smith & Cross doesn't imitate any specific recipe but is made to the proof and hogo-heavy recipes common in 18th century Jamaican rum.
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Sorry, I'm just thinking this ends in some kind of Sunday day-drinking GWS discord at some point.
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Archaeology conferences will literally drink all the bars in and around the hotel/conference center dry. This has happened more than once and is something of a point of pride. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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Nov 13, 2019 19:13
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Yeah, gunpowder proof often has to be custom ordered. I put in for a case, let's see if it arrives before July.Telsa Cola posted:Archaeology conferences will literally drink all the bars in and around the hotel/confrence center dry. It belongs in
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Telsa Cola posted:Archaeology conferences will literally drink all the bars in and around the hotel/conference center dry. Linguistics, but same. We did it in Manhattan once which I'm still impressed by.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:23
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These are my options Thinking of getting the cheaper one
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Nov 13, 2019 21:26
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Well, I've had the J Wray. Not sure what to tell you; I've used a bit of it to preserve fruit syrups, and I've used it to strengthen infused liqueurs. For such a strong rum, it tastes surprisingly little like kerosene, but I'm not drinking it on the rocks or anything. That price is high. Virginia ABC has high prices, but they sell it for $27 USD (which is still a few CAD less than that). Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Nov 13, 2019 |
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Nov 13, 2019 21:30
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Welcome to Canadian liquor store monopolies.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:42
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I'm drinking those Belorussians under the table. drat.
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Nov 14, 2019 05:27
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And remember, not every country has an absolute iron grip on internal control of alcohol sales. Belarus for instance: https://belarusdigest.com/story/belarusian-samahon-folk-tradition-or-health-hazard-belarus-photo-digest/
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Xiahou Dun posted:Linguistics, but same. I'll tell you where you can shove your goddamn prescriptivism
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Xiahou Dun posted:Sorry, I'm just thinking this ends in some kind of Sunday day-drinking GWS discord at some point. I'd be tempted to join this if it happens. Though I mostly post in the industry thread. Telsa Cola posted:Archaeology conferences will literally drink all the bars in and around the hotel/conference center dry. There is a bartending conference in New Orleans every year called Tales of the Cocktail. I imagine that is a very, very good time to be a bartender - either working or as an attendee.
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uber_stoat posted:I'm drinking those Belorussians under the table. drat. I knew a guy in college who was from Belarus. He went home on spring break, and told us that he had a night of drinking where the first thing he remembered is waking up in the morning covered in blood. The bathroom sink was shattered and his mother was just saying “not my son, not my son” to him over and over. I can handle my booze but I’m pretty sure there’s no way to actually out drink a Belorussian.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I knew a guy in college who was from Belarus. He went home on spring break, and told us that he had a night of drinking where the first thing he remembered is waking up in the morning covered in blood. The bathroom sink was shattered and his mother was just saying “not my son, not my son” to him over and over.  Jesus gently caress.
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chitoryu12 posted:I don't have an onion bake to do, but I do have a project I'm going to do this weekend or next: drinking the Royal Navy grog ration. Just remember that despite the amount they drank, actually displaying drunkenness was a flogging offence. This reminds me of the "Drink like a Colonial American" experiment that some blogger did: http://www.fourpoundsflour.com/drink-like-a-colonial-american-day/
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Notahippie posted:Just remember that despite the amount they drank, actually displaying drunkenness was a flogging offence. She seems to have an unusual sensitivity to alcohol if 5 drinks before noon leads to her being so crippled by the evening.
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If you're a teetotaler with low body weight, it hits hard. Also her time scale is compressed. No colonial American is having a leisurely breakfast at 930am. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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Nov 15, 2019 01:28
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Right. Work began at sunup or a little before. 930 is almost lunchtime.
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chitoryu12 posted:She seems to have an unusual sensitivity to alcohol if 5 drinks before noon leads to her being so crippled by the evening. I know I'd probably be hosed and very iratable if I day drank like that. In my 20s, I had a crazy tolerance, but now into my 30s that's fallen off of a cliff. 3-4 is my limit.
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Also a stiff drink is probably the only thing that could get me out of bed at sunup
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Apparently somebody else with higher tolerance did it also and concluded that being slightly drunk all day was awesome and made boring drudgery like most of a Colonial's day entertaining https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/drinking-in-colonial-america
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When I was building houses in the summer, I was a lot more amenable to getting up as early as possible so I could end work after the hottest part of the day. And if you have to mow your lawn without podcasts and weed, I guess rum is probably the next best thing.
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Halloween Jack posted:When I was building houses in the summer, I was a lot more amenable to getting up as early as possible so I could end work after the hottest part of the day. And if you have to mow your lawn without podcasts and weed, I guess rum is probably the next best thing. Porque no los tres? I have been cutting my parents' firewood for the last like 20 years since I was old enough to hold an axe without cutting off my foot, and it's always in the absolute hottest part of the Summer so I get up at like 5AM to have had some coffee by the time it's light enough to see by. And I can tell you there is nothing sweeter than having like a cider or a beer shandy by around 10:30 after hours of swinging an axe and holding a chainsaw for several hours. Every Summer I can see who in the neighborhood is cool because half of them look at me like I'm some kind disgusting monster, and the other half are clearly thinking "O this guy has a layer of sweat and sawdust all over him and there's a cord of fresh firewood sitting there ; these are probably related and the dude earned it". Screw you Kathy from down the street, yeah I'm gonna have a mild alcoholic beverage and sit on the porch for a bit. We don't all just buy pre-cut firewood. (I'm not bitter. What are you saying.)
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I think Americans are just weird about alcohol. Here in Australia if you wander through a CBD at lunchtime on a weekday you’ll see every pub/restaurant/cafe packed to the brim with office workers having a beer or a glass of wine with their lunch. It’s also entirely normal to have an alcoholic drink at a weekend brunch. Nobody would give a gently caress about you sitting on your porch or whatever at 10:30 having a drink. Granted you wouldn't be chopping firewood here, but you can sub in some other labour intensive garden activity. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Nov 17, 2019 |
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Nov 17, 2019 08:22
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I imagine its tied up with the whole workday concept.
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Telsa Cola posted:I imagine its tied up with the whole workday concept. Except in Australia it’s completely acceptable to drink alcohol during a workday, at least for an office job.
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The Lord Bude posted:Except in Australia it’s completely acceptable to drink alcohol during a workday, at least for an office job. Yeah sorry that was a late rear end post and I should have expanded more. I agree with you that Americans are weird about alcohol because I think drinking its viewed as a fun, your time activity which you are not allowed to do on company time/breaks because it would interfere with profits or whatever. My work doesn't give a poo poo though and we tend to have six packs or bottles of wine in the fridge so who knows. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Nov 17, 2019 |
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The US has a long temperance history due to both a severe alcoholism problem in the 19th century and strong evangelical religious influence for much of its existence. This is also how we got a drinking age of 21 and stigmatized letting teens have alcohol even under parental supervision.
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The strong aversion to day drinking/work drinking is definitely much much more recent, though.
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Your neighbors might be glaring at you because you were running a chainsaw at 6 AM
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Anne Whateley posted:Your neighbors might be glaring at you because you were running a chainsaw at 6 AM You might be on to something there.
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I tried the recipe To make fine Cakes from the Boke of Gode Cookery and they turned out reasonably well. I substituted 1/2 tsp baking powder in place of the 1/2 tsp baker's ammonia/hartshorn and I think that worked fine. The "cakes" are interesting, somewhere between a sugar cookie and a scone in texture. The rosewater seems to be mostly in the aroma, while the flavor comes from the mace and clove. They're much lower in sugar and butter than a modern cookie.
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Those look great.
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Anne Whateley posted:Your neighbors might be glaring at you because you were running a chainsaw at 6 AM O I hold off on using that until later in the day, since I'm not a monster and the axe/splitting maul parts are the bits that suck the most in the heat. Like I try for nothing earlier than 9AM on a weekday. Also this is pretty rural so our neighbors are pretty far away. Plus the the ones glaring don't give a poo poo about mowing a lawn at 7AM on a Saturday so I have minimal pity.
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hailthefish posted:The strong aversion to day drinking/work drinking is definitely much much more recent, though. Its seen as fine in white collar jobs. Used to be even more so in the 50s and 60s. Day drinking in a blue collar environment leads to injuries and liability, so is cracked down on as hard as they can while still having a pool to hire from.
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In the south in the US people sometimes get fired for having a drink at lunch even in office environments--this varies tremendously by employer of course and is more to do with Evangelical/Baptist religious ideas than any business related case.
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Liquid Communism posted:
You would be amazed how hosed up some construction workers get during the day. My high scorer hit .24 by lunchtime.
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