Eloquent_Hedonist
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Yep there's always that one pain, and then they sling 20p in the tip jar and look at you like they just bought you a car
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Yep there's always that one pain, and then they sling 20p in the tip jar and look at you like they just bought you a car
Polranny
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I know our “bay-zul” is your “baz-il”.
I guess I haven’t yet heard a Brit say oregano.
ETA: Just took a listen. Your oregano is much closer to the Italian.
Orrie gar no
Is Cummin .....come in or queue min?
ps I really like parsley, agree that snowballs are a bartender's nightmare, though i used to hate all the gardening required for a jug of Pimms.
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We would make up loads at a time when it was quiet and freeze it. Then take out when needed, break it up and no need to add ice.
Flat parsley I love. Curly parsley I detest.
I full agree with the cardamon and star anise views expressed.
Coriander - smells and tastes great but seems to make me sneeze...
I hardly dare say it ........ but I will and blame it on Covid madness........ All green herbs are the devils work
Mojitos!! Why ruin perfectly good rum by adding an ingredient that makes it taste like a compost bin? Coriander root is fine, but the leaves .... horrible, nasty, bitter examples of gribbley fodder and don't get me started on parsley - what did any poor fish ever do to deserve parsley?
Erm, I'll exit left now
Mint is what makes a good Mojito surely?
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Snowballs...
Snowballs...
Really, everyone is just going to let snowballs be just a cocktail and not a gross blow job thing?
Snowballs...
Really, everyone is just going to let snowballs be just a cocktail and not a gross blow job thing?
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I enjoy mint on lamb but not in cocktails. Give me one (or several/all) Daiquiri variants and I'll be a happy bunny.
Ermm, choosing the exit now
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I'm with Londoner on this one. Flat-leaf parsley is utterly delicious and I use it a lot, but curly is dull and uninspiring.
Eloquent_Hedonist
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Apparently so. Although ordering the latter would be equally distasteful at the bar...
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I figured that you would have far more fun commenting on it, so didn't want to steal your thunder.
ETA: I was not familiar with the cocktail, so just looked it up. Eewww...sort of like a lemonade egg nog??? That sounds disgusting. Between the two, I think I'd have to choose the non-alcoholic version.
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AngelicaS1780
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Per Andrew Shanahan in The Guardian...
Snowball: Simple to make as it's just advocaat and lemonade. Advocaat is a Dutch version of eggnog, which so soon after the English eggnog experience causes some reflex gagging. Later research reveals the grotesque fact that the Dutch also have a thick version of advocaat which they eat with a spoon. The taste is like eggnog (as we've established, not good) but with a weak fizz (really not good).
An opposing view...despite Nigella and young Scottish bartenders, I'm not convinced.
https://12bottlebar.com/2010/12/the-snowball/
Snowball: Simple to make as it's just advocaat and lemonade. Advocaat is a Dutch version of eggnog, which so soon after the English eggnog experience causes some reflex gagging. Later research reveals the grotesque fact that the Dutch also have a thick version of advocaat which they eat with a spoon. The taste is like eggnog (as we've established, not good) but with a weak fizz (really not good).
An opposing view...despite Nigella and young Scottish bartenders, I'm not convinced.
https://12bottlebar.com/2010/12/the-snowball/
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Hmmmmm Snowballs are very retro but surely the US is the home of the Cream Soda and Ice cream float? A ball of ice cream plonked on a glass of coke? Have I remembered that correctly? Perhaps that’s just what we did at home although back in the day we didn’t have proper coke but we did have a Sodastream - it’s ok because they were EXACTLY the same!
I can’t believe no one canvassed for Rosemary ( as in the herb) although Coriander is the work of the devil. Spice wise I can’t stand Star Anise.
I can’t believe no one canvassed for Rosemary ( as in the herb) although Coriander is the work of the devil. Spice wise I can’t stand Star Anise.
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I once encountered a person who didn't like choc-mint as a combination! I now know the devil walks among us...
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Outrageous! May they be swiftly corrected via minty hypnosis.
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I've never been a big ice cream float fan, neither Coke nor root beer. I like those types of sodas, as well as vanilla ice cream, just not so much together. I'm also not an egg/egg whites in the drink sort of girl. Most cream soda here is a vanilla flavored soft drink with no hint of dairy.
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Who remembers Corona Dandelion and Burdock? I used to add a chocolate and vanilla ice cream float, to be drunk along with a packet of Smiths Crisps, salt in a little blue wrap.
Then I discovered girls, tobacco and alcohol
Polranny
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It sure is. I always preferred it to Cola , Dr.Pepper or root beer. Those merkins across the pond don't know what they're missing.
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Morning all! In my childhood there was a lorry which delivered fizzy drinks once a week (Alpine, I think?), like a milkman - my siblings and I called it 'the Fizzy man' and would pester the life out of my Mum to let us drink it. Dandelion and burdock was one of my faves. What on earth is burdock, I wonder?
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I can get Fentimans Dandelion and Burdock here. Sounds like the consensus would be that I should try it.
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Burdock is a plant and I think they use the root or did originally. We had a lorry that came around too and we called him 'the pop man.' My grandad always called tap water 'council pop.'
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My grandad always called tap water 'council pop.'
That's adorable. I'm totally stealing that.
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My grandad always called tap water 'council pop.'
Same here, still use it now. Also used to pass the milkman on my paper round (showing my age now) nothing like a pint of gold top pilfered (paid for at the end of the week) early on in the morning.
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In Scotland it’s called ‘Cooncil Juice’ 
