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Tante, I make a mean anise-current martini, with anise picked fresh from my garden. Wanna come over?
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quote:Tante, I make a mean anise-current martini, with anise picked fresh from my garden. Wanna come over?
Gosh YES!
My favoritest liquor is Arak, which tastes like Good'n'Plenty, but not at all sweet. It is crystal clear, but if you put it in the freezer or add ice, it turns milky-white.
Sometimes I pour a little over my vanilla ice cream.
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The funny thing is that I don't like black licorice. But I like anise. Never had Arak.
But I make my martinis with a little vanilla sugar-sryup, so if you like Arak over vanilla ice cream you're pretty sure to like them. Posts: 7954 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Hey I asked if you wanted to come over. That implies you supply your own form of transportation. Need directions to Minnesota?
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haha, that actually doesn't help me any. I'm from northern Sussex County so we don't have highways with exits. Posts: 2867 | Registered: May 2005
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Zeugma, I got one of the Diet Dr. Pepper's from Pita Pit that had a 9-12-05 expiration date, but I think it tastes the same as the one I had yesterday. Very odd....
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I really have to insert my obnoxious opinion in here now.
I've been completely spoiled for American soda since I began shopping exclusively in the import aisles. Mexico is brilliant and does just about everything neccessary to save the world. If you can get some Mexican apple soda (there are many brands, all equally fabulous, such as Sidral, Extra Poma and Manzana Lift) you must give it a try. Also fabulous is the Jarritos line of Mexican sodas, which you can even get here so I'm pretty sure you can get them everywhere. Tamarindo is the best thing ever made.
If you can find an asian import store, try the weirdest soda you can find. CoCo Rico is a pretty good Filipino coconut soda, and then there's always the cool Japanese one with the marble that's really too sweet, but the coolest ones will be the obscure ones. Aloe vera soda, red bean soda, green tea soda.
The import aisle's the way to go.
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Annie, Ever come across any licorice soda? There may be a vast untapped market just waiting for me to come along and exploit it.
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Grapefruit soda is pretty good, I had some of that in Italy. But sadly they had no Dr. Pepper so it was a long four months with Coke as my only option for dark soda.
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quote:Remember if you decide that someone is "Making" you try a drink the likelhood of you enjoying it is greatly reduce.
I disagree, since I was trying it under the impression that it was delicious. The only reason he had to "make" me try it was because it was somewhat difficult to find over here, and I kept forgetting.
I don't like cherry flavoured coke, or anything really, so I hardly think cherry flavoured Dr Pepper is going to be nicer.
It's not just Dr Pepper, either; I find most American candy oversweet. Not only is Dr Pepper too sweet, but as I recall it tastes like marzipan (assuming marzipan is the flavour of wedding cake icing...).
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Marzipan is not usually used on wedding cakes over here, no, it's usually royal icing. Marzipan I think is mostly almond paste, is the flavor you're thinking of at all almondy?
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Marzipan is the flavor of almond paste and some of the best stuff in the world!! Haven't been to enough weddings to know about the cake icing thing though.
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Hmm, I'm not sure. I found a website that says marzipan is usually used for cake decorating rather than to actually ice the entire cake, so perhaps it was cute little marzipan flowers that I was thinking of.
I like almonds, but if marzipan is almond flavoured, then I guess I don't like almond flavouring. Does Dr Pepper taste in any way almondy? (I remember it having a taste I didn't like that reminded me of marzipan, but since I'm not sure that I have the correct memory of what marzipan tastes like, it could be anything really...)
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: haha, that actually doesn't help me any. I'm from northern Sussex County so we don't have highways with exits.
So once you get on, you're stuck?
Kiwi, I adore marzipan (which, while made primarily of almonds, has a taste quite distinct from plain almonds) and detest Dr. Pepper. Which I don't happen to think tastes anything like any kind of icing . . . Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I'll second the bit about American candy being sweeter than most of the world (though I suspect Western European candy is similar). When I was in India and we went to a "sweet shop" everything was spongy cake type things with syrup or maybe some sort of frosting. There wasn't anything like American hard candy, which is basically colored sugar formed into different shapes (Nerds, SweetTarts, Jolly Ranchers, etc). The sweetest thing we found was basically a donut hole in a small dish of maple syrup.
Anyone know what gives Dr. Pepper its real flavor? I've always thought of Dr. Pepper as being the unholy spawn of root beer and Tab...
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