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[Moscow Mule]

I'm fairly sure what was re-legalised was "absinthe lite", a variant concoction nowhere near as strong and dodgy as as the original (although apparently you can still get bootleg original in southern France, if you're crazy enough to want it and know where to ask).

IIRC only the psychotropic ingredient has been removed from absinthe lite. The alcohol content is still ridiculously high.

[Marina]

http://www.urbanpath.com/london/spir...hol/gerrys.htm

It's not banned. Was legalised again, in the 1990s.

Thujone is blamed for it's psychoactive properties.

I'm fairly sure what was re-legalised was "absinthe lite", a variant concoction nowhere near as strong and dodgy as as the original (although apparently you can still get bootleg original in southern France, if you're crazy enough to want it and know where to ask).

[Pondlife]

Step1: Get a spoon of sugar and a shot of loopy juice
Step2: Dip sugar in vile looking green stuff
Step3: Set alight sugar
Step4: Mix it in
Step5: Drink it
Step6: Fall down


Simple really.

[Alf W]

I'd have to agree with that, was in Prague a few years ago with a few mates on a stag do. It beat us!

Not good stuff, scary!

My wife bought me a bottle of the full on genuine stuff from Prague. I haven't touched it yet. The devious cow!

[Lucy]

Doesn't compare to any other alcohol, and I can see why it's banned. It's dangerous.

http://www.urbanpath.com/london/spir...hol/gerrys.htm

It's not banned. Was legalised again, in the 1990s.

Thujone is blamed for it's psychoactive properties.

[El_Diablo]

My advice, don't. Tried the real thing on three occasions, and on every occasion something bad/regrettable has happened to me. No hallucinations, but it gets you falling down drunk in the truest sense of the word - you actually fall down, drunk. Nothing enjoyable about it whatsoever, including the hangover.

Doesn't compare to any other alcohol, and I can see why it's banned. It's dangerous.

I'd have to agree with that, was in Prague a few years ago with a few mates on a stag do. It beat us!

Not good stuff, scary!

[Torran]

Could you pick what slop trays you wanted, or was is "barman's choice"?

I guess it was just whatever was floating near by

Seemed to be a popular choice with the jakeys.

Sara Heid near the barras. A few on here will know it.

[snaw]

Never tried absinthe though - they say the full-strength stuff (if you can still buy it) has seriously weird effects such as hallucinations.

My advice, don't. Tried the real thing on three occasions, and on every occasion something bad/regrettable has happened to me. No hallucinations, but it gets you falling down drunk in the truest sense of the word - you actually fall down, drunk. Nothing enjoyable about it whatsoever, including the hangover.

Doesn't compare to any other alcohol, and I can see why it's banned. It's dangerous.

[Board Game Geek]

"barman's choice"?

That'd be the spittoon then....

[Moscow Mule]

In a couple of choice pubs in Glasgows east end you could buy a pint of the slops from the drink trays for a very reasonable price

Could you pick what slop trays you wanted, or was is "barman's choice"?

[Torran]

In a couple of choice pubs in Glasgows east end you could buy a pint of the slops from the drink trays for a very reasonable price

[M_B]

On sunday I was out with a friend of mine and her kid who is 22. The lad introduced me to a "turbo shandy", a sickly concoction of a bottle of Budwieser and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice in a pint glass. After six of them I was blotto.

Sounds very much like a "Jason Donovan". Double vodka, Smirnoff Ice and topped up with lager. Its binge drinking heaven.

[Moscow Mule]

I seem to remember folk in Northern Spain drinking "calle mucho" which was red wine and coke mixed together. Makes a €1 bottle of wine very drinkable...

[darmstadt]

Diesel - snakebite and dash of blackcurrant.

Diesel over here is Export (bit like lager but stronger) and coke. Then there's Krefelder (or Muddy Water) which is Alt Bier and coke (gets its name because there is a horrible scum on top.) Some people drink Weizenbier with banana juice although I know one bloke who drinks it with milk because of a stomach complaint. Try Apfelwein and Jägermeister (you can substitue Cider instead!)

[Marina]

Youtha Joyce was doing a litre a day for ten years.

So did Field Marshall von Rundstedt (sp?) for years, and a box of cigars a day, and he lived to be 78.