any absinthe fans???

jliu
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got a contest going on for some free stuff.  errbody like free stuff.  

http://developingpalates.com/reviews/cigar-reviews/team-cigar-review-alpha-absinthe-infused-claro-robusto/

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just deleted my Twitter account and don't do Facebook :(
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  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't believe I've ever tasted absinthe. Wasn't the original poisonous or something?
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nope. I just checked Wikipedia and it wasn't supposedly poisonous, it was supposedly addictive. 

    I knew I remembered something off-kilter about it. I guess I was thinking of the wormwood ingredient and thought it was a poison. Damn!!  Wrong again....  :#
  • Guitarded
    Guitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    Don't believe I've ever tasted absinthe. Wasn't the original poisonous or something?
    The original had an extract of worm wood that caused mild hallucinations and a euphoric feeling. Popular with artists, writers, and actors in the early 1900s. 

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  • Sketch6995
    Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, I like it myself....


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  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭
    I do enjoy it. have had several different brands.
  • jliu
    jliu Posts: 7,735 ✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Just deleted my Twitter account and don't do Facebook :(
    I got you Chris.  Next time we herf, ill bring you one 
  • matkn293
    matkn293 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does it make you poop?

    Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!

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  • Sketch6995
    Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No but if it's made wrong it'll make you hallucinate.
    That's one of the reasons it was illegal in the United States for so long.  It's made out of wormwood, that is not on the FDA list of edible substances.
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've heard of that before, doesn't absinthe make the heart grow fonder?  ;-)
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,094 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YankeeMan said:
    I've heard of that before, doesn't absinthe make the heart grow fonder?  ;-)
    And makes homely women gorgeous?
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  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had some once. Three days later when I returned from wherever I went people treated me completely different.
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've picked up a bottle in Mexico once in a while, it doesn't make me poop, hallucinate nor taste good enough to get drunk, I think the mystique is greater than the product
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