Ethan Bentley
One Too Many
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rumblefish said::icon_smil So, Pimm's #1 tastes more like #2?
*groan!* lol
rumblefish said::icon_smil So, Pimm's #1 tastes more like #2?
rumblefish said::icon_smil So, Pimm's #1 tastes more like #2?
Doran said:Is this a reference to ca ca? I am confused by all this #1 and #2 bizness.
I actually like Pimm's.filfoster said:Zima is #3 (#1 + #2).
rumblefish said:I actually like Pimm's.
jamespowers said:You also like Cynar and Campari so that doesn't say much. lol lol lol
filfoster said:That's tough love.
John in Covina said:Few people would drink vermouth on it's own and something like Angostura Bitters would be horrendous. There are items that are meant to be part of the mix much like a a spice as seasoning.
Recipe for Traditional Pimm's No 1 is easy - Take a jug or glass and fill it with ice, mix one part Pimm’s No. 1 with 3 parts chilled lemonade, add some mint, cucumber, orange and strawberry.
Bourbon Guy said:No one here remembers when Sweet Vermouth was marketed as a drink on its own? Back in the 60's the song was "Martini and Rossi imported Vermouth... M and R... on the rocks."
In the 70's it was this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AWhI2bWXew
Once in my anglophile days (about the time of the commercial above, by the way) I tried to like Pimm's cup. Mixed it all sorts of different ways, every recipe I could find, trying to be English, even put cucumber slices in some of them. Every recipe I tried was undrinkable. Just plain foul. A drink with a cucumber in it? When you're not hungover to start with? Really?
Bourbon Guy said:No one here remembers when Sweet Vermouth was marketed as a drink on its own? Back in the 60's the song was "Martini and Rossi imported Vermouth... M and R... on the rocks."
Angie Dickinson and Bert Bachrach during their brief, bizarre hitch.
Selentino said:My worst list:
Iron City Beer from Pittsburg taste like stale cigarette butts
Chivas Regal 18 yr old. Swill a waste of a lot of money
Jaegermeister mouthwash on steroids
Growing up in the 70's any of the old street drinks Thunderbird, Cold Duck, TJ Swann, and any Malt Beer (Yes I'm from the East Coast).
St.Ignatz said:Grappa Julia. I have maybe 15 different Grappa in my cabinet and Julia is NOT among them. If there was even a pretense of authenticity they would at least have spelled it Giulia. The grappa that gave grappa a bad name.
Tom D.
oh and I have to disagree with your description of IC. It tastes like bad beer with cigarette butts in it sipped through an oxidized copper tube.
Bourbon Guy said:As I recall, Grappa is made from the stems and bits of grape vine removed from the wine grapes, in other words, made from wood, in other words, poison. And it tastes like it. Next to Grappa, Pimm's is ambrosia.