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| grizewald:
--- Quote from: tautech on July 18, 2022, 10:38:59 pm --- --- Quote from: grizewald on July 18, 2022, 10:35:00 pm ---To truly melt your brain, I reckon this is probably the best choice: --- End quote --- Nah, it's made in Frog land and after they put mines on a protestor boat and killed 2 last century at Auckland port we boycott any of their products.....wars have started over less ! --- End quote --- Not to worry sir, we can offer our own Absinthe, locally distilled, at the same mind melting strength: Guaranteed to have your grey matter oozing out of your ears after a couple of glasses! |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 18, 2022, 10:25:42 pm ---It is my understanding that a toddy however is another thing altogether. A hot toddy is usually some form of tea, coffee, or cider with additional alcohol, drunk after dinner or before bed to aid sleep, or to take the chill off a cold evening. But it doesn't have to be hot; just that it's something alcoholic you like the taste of. The point in general being that it is some alcoholic concoction you make just for you, like some dishes are "comfort food". I'm certain C will be along to correct this assumption shortly... I am, after all, a wine/whiskey/liqueur heathen. :-// mnem :o --- End quote --- Well the name toddy comes from Indian 'todi' and was appropriated by British colonists and brought back home. In England a hot toddy is spirits (usually whisky) with honey, lemon and hot water, taken for a cold, or as a warming drink when coming in from the cold and wet. In India todi (or toddy) was a sweet drink made with sap from the coconut palm. I suspect that grandma-ji or ama-ji probably held a hot todi out as a cure for all ills (cf Jewish grandmothers and Chicken Soup) and that's how it started its journey to what the British know it as today. So, for pukka hot toddy you should probably use palm sugar, not honey. Ferment todi and you get palm wine. Distil that and you get Arrak (which is Arabic/Persian for "paint stripper and tar remover for camel's hooves"). The preparation of todi is old enough that the trade leant itself to a surname - variously spelt Todiwala, Toddiwallah, or Toddywallah. An aside on Wallahs: The -wallah ending is typically used to mean 'bloke whose job is the previous word' so a punkahwallah is a man whose job it is to standaround and fan his betters with a punkah fan. The Brits took that ending to themselves so you'd get charwallah (teaboy) and so on. People who served in Indian were want to use the word Wallah to just mean 'bloke' as slang when they got back to the UK. My father served in the British Army in Indian pre-WWII and used to say things like "He knows a wallah who can get them for 10/- each.". Cyrus Todiwala OBE A well-known chef |
| TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: grizewald on July 18, 2022, 09:01:00 pm --- --- Quote from: Saskia on July 18, 2022, 08:56:40 pm ---these "environmental activists" have glued themselves to the streets over here. Preventing EMTs to get critically ill patients into hospital. As far as I am concerned, they are terrorists. --- End quote --- They've been doing the same thing here in Stockholm, gluing themselves to major highways just as the morning rush hour starts. Given the geography of the city, blocking any north-south passage during the morning rush hour causes follow on disruption that lasts until the afternoon. I don't think they are winning much support from the public! --- End quote --- Kind of counter-productive to trap so many motorists idling fuel away into exhaust fumes....... |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 18, 2022, 10:59:04 pm ---The environmental protesters are spot on in principle. However they aren’t marketing experts. Deciding to glue yourself to shit is what tends to come from student union pub nights. It just makes you look like a bit of a wally. --- End quote --- Quite so. Now, if they started supergluing Jacob Rees-Mogg and friends to things they'd have the British public on side in no time at all. >:D |
| grizewald:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 18, 2022, 11:29:26 pm ---Getting worse here.... now 01H30, and it's still 30°C outside, 29 inside.... can't sleep with that kind of temperature... Forcast says should decrease to 23°C in the morning when the sun rises... though it says it will feel like 28°C, probably because of humidity.. .so not sure that will improve things at all.... Summer sucks ! And a cockroach just landed on my desk !! :palm: --- End quote --- I feel for you Vince. We were in the same situation a couple of weeks ago. The temperature was up in the mid 30s during the day and my well insulated, solid brick apartment just soaks up the heat during the day to release it once the sun goes down (or rather, dips slightly below the horizon for an hour or two, as it does up here). The AC is far too noisy to use in the bedroom when you are trying to sleep, so you end up just lying on top of the bed, sweating. Thankfully, I don't think we have cockroaches here in Sweden. I've never seen one here at least. |
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