I attempted to write a post yesterday but my hangover got the better of me and eating chocolate all day was much more appealing than trying to work a computer!
As you can see from my last post i was pretty excited for the weekend and drinking Sex On The Beach cocktails!!! So as planned we started off with the cocktails and then headed to a curry house and drank white wine, note-to-self never ask for house white wine in a curry house as it arrives in a fish bowl with no label and looks likes a urine sample from the doctors and funnily enough tastes like one!!!
Anyway less of that…The night was going well until it come to drinking shots time, Sambuka shots yes, Absinthe shots big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
My first experience with Absinthe was when i was 18 and sat in bar, i had my cocky head on and believed that i could drink anything, i mean it couldn’t be much stronger than my blue WKD that i was drinking! Ok that’s what i thought at the time and o how wrong i was! I knocked the shot back in one and the next thing i know i was leaning over the bar struggerling to breathe and violently being sick, all that in the space of 5 seconds! Classy! Since my ever so embarrassing experience i have purposely stayed clear of Absinthe on a night out and have no intensions of ever drinking the dreaded poison again!
That’s why on Saturday when my mates got a round of Absinthe in i proudly rejected and watched in horror as they downed there shot. There faces said it all when they finished and so did there behaviour, if you want to pull your crazy ex who will not leave you alone, who you have been trying to avoid for months then Absinthe will make you think there Megan Fox and you will be straight in there arms again…well until the alcohol is out of your blood stream, that’s what happened to one of the guys i was out with on Saturday and another one spent the rest of the night lay on a bathroom floor with there head in the toilet, nice!!!
So if you want my opinion i think your bloody crazy if you drink Absinthe and if you have never tried it before don’t try now as you are not missing out! I love shots like Sambuka, Tequila and After Shock and these are all pretty harsh but they taste like water compared to Absinthe.
If you have had any bad experience with Absinthe let us know?????
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June 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Absinthe was never intended to be drunk the way you describe, and many people enjoy it with 3/4 parts of chilled water, or in numerous cocktails.
There are several forums devoted to this wonderful drink, and there are many suggestions as to how to drink it (and how not to drink it).
So for many people the drink itself is OK (although that could depend on the brand too).
Better luck next time!
June 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I know it was not intended to be taken as a shot but the majority i people i no and the bars that i go into tend to serve as a shot.
I definitely would not call this drink wonderful, it is utter vulgar and should not be served in bars unless like you say in a cocktail that might take the vile taste down a notch. Even if you drank this with a power juice i am sure that it would still blow your head off!