Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
|
|
Shortage of Tonic Water
|
You are logged in as Guest
|
Users viewing this topic: none
|
|
Login | |
|
BarkellWH
Posts: 3461
Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to RobF)
|
|
|
I can understand your displeasure at the blighter, kicking him into the pool. As a retired member of the British regiment known as the Khyber Rifles who has seen action on the Khyber Pass and the Northwest Frontier, I brought back with me in retirement my batman who had served me so well while engaged in action on the Frontier. He would certainly know where to obtain tonic water, and I would be obliged to put him in touch with your butler. William H. Barkell, Esq., Regimental Commander (Ret.)
_____________________________
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East." --Rudyard Kipling
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Aug. 27 2020 22:24:52
|
|
BarkellWH
Posts: 3461
Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to RobF)
|
|
|
Rob, I would like to suggest you try a favorite drink of old British colonials in Malaya--a "gin pahit." I am familiar with it, having served four years at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and rereading Somerset Maugham's short stories about every six or seven years, many of which were set in British Malaya. The word "pahit" in the Malay language ("Bahasa Melayu") means "bitter" and a gin pahit consists of gin and Angostura bitters with ice in a martini glass. Take your favorite gin and pick up a bottle of Angostura bitters, and your set. The Long Bar at Raffles Hotel in Singapore uses 2/3 gin to 1/3 Angostura bitters, but of course you use the ratio of gin to Angostura bitters that best suits your taste. Fix yourself a gin pahit and sit out on your verandah (or porch or deck, I forgot that we are in the 21st century) about 6:00pm for a refreshing sundowner, thinking of the old days in Malaya. Good days, those, made even better by the gin pahit in your hand. Bill
_____________________________
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East." --Rudyard Kipling
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Aug. 28 2020 19:01:04
|
|
hamia
Posts: 403
Joined: Jun. 25 2004
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to BarkellWH)
|
|
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: BarkellWH Rob, I would like to suggest you try a favorite drink of old British colonials in Malaya--a "gin pahit." I am familiar with it, having served four years at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and rereading Somerset Maugham's short stories about every six or seven years, many of which were set in British Malaya. The word "pahit" in the Malay language ("Bahasa Melayu") means "bitter" and a gin pahit consists of gin and Angostura bitters with ice in a martini glass. Take your favorite gin and pick up a bottle of Angostura bitters, and your set. The Long Bar at Raffles Hotel in Singapore uses 2/3 gin to 1/3 Angostura bitters, but of course you use the ratio of gin to Angostura bitters that best suits your taste. Fix yourself a gin pahit and sit out on your verandah (or porch or deck, I forgot that we are in the 21st century) about 6:00pm for a refreshing sundowner, thinking of the old days in Malaya. Good days, those, made even better by the gin pahit in your hand. Bill Get your emergency grab bag ready Bill as your fond thoughts of past colonial days will have put you on the radar of the cancel culturistas. You may need to go dark. Your contacts should serve you well but be vigilant. They are everywhere...
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Aug. 28 2020 20:35:24
|
|
RobF
Posts: 1613
Joined: Aug. 24 2017
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to BarkellWH)
|
|
|
Well, I picked up some craft tonic syrup, made with cinchona, lemon, and lime. I’m going to try out the Pahit, too, but that’s a pretty strong drink, so maybe I’ll cut it with some soda and see how it goes. This summer I’ve discovered two gins that I really like. One of them, Sipsmith’s London Dry, is a classic styled gin, nothing fancy, it just does the job well. It’s priced at about the same level as Hendricks, maybe a touch less. The other one is a French gin called Citadelle, which is priced around the same as Bombay or Tanqueray. It’s pretty flavourful, I’d take it over either of those two any day, although I don’t mind Tanqueray. But I’m perfectly happy with some Beefeater or Gordon’s in a G&T, they work just fine. Seagrams doesn’t appear to be available here.
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Aug. 28 2020 22:45:55
|
|
Richard Jernigan
Posts: 3433
Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to estebanana)
|
|
|
I am clearly only an amateur when it comes to gin. Looking back I find that besides a wife or girlfriend I have always had a female (platonic) best friend, since I was six years old. As an Air Force brat and generally itinerant person, there have been more than one. In the '60s in Austin, I would drop in unannounced on my friends Pat and Jeanie. There were eight or ten of us on such terms, an improvised family. Jeanie would lift an eyebrow. If I nodded, she would pour a Tanqueray and Schweppes, with a squeeze of fresh lime, set out a bowl of peanuts, and sit down at the table to discuss the way of the world. Last September Pat passed away. I went to Juneau, Alaska for the funeral. The afternoon I arrived a friend picked me up at the airport and took me to Jeanie's house up on the hill. After we walked in Jeanie gave me a hug, then lifted an eyebrow. I nodded, she went to the kitchen and reappeared with a Tanquery/tonic, and a bowl of peanuts. We sat down at the table. It was as if fifty years had passed in the blink of an eye. RNJ
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Sep. 5 2020 20:48:12
|
|
Richard Jernigan
Posts: 3433
Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
|
RE: Shortage of Tonic Water (in reply to Estevan)
|
|
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Estevan quote:
You are evidently unaware of the "straw hat" process for changing the shape of your thumbnail. It requires a 4-poster bed, a straw hat and 1 liter of gin of your choice, at least 80 proof. 90 proof would be better. The procedure is as follows. That is a piece of real American folklore! Apparently the method can be adapted to various purposes. I first heard it, handed down as a cold remedy, from the great folksinger and story teller Michael Cooney, who was my upstairs neighbour for a while. We used to hear each other practising. It was a nice time. Yes, I heard it from my grandfather Neville Jernigan, as a cold remedy employing Bourbon whiskey. Grandfather was born in 1882. He attributed the straw hat cure to his father William Hunsdon Jernigan, born 1831, using the same spirit. RNJ
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Dec. 24 2020 1:25:38
|
|
New Messages |
No New Messages |
Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
Locked w/ New Messages |
Locked w/o New Messages |
|
Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts
|
|
|
Forum Software powered by ASP Playground Advanced Edition 2.0.5
Copyright © 2000 - 2003 ASPPlayground.NET |
0.09375 secs.
|