Ah, you have a good Caesar spiced up, with a salted rim, ice, and a crisp celery stalk... you can't even really taste clams. Just pure daze-inducing bliss.
Yeah,laying back an listening to him on the radio with just the slightest waft of a breeze to disturb the cool evening air.
whereas his radio work is vastly underated, i was thinking more of his work as a playwright.
they always seemed be sweltering affairs. but mostly i was making a joke because i was nicking his style of prose in my posts. it was very vivian leighish.
Inside or out? Inside, after cooling off, hot black coffee. It could just be the extent of my addiction, but I find that it keeps me from feeling the hit of heat and humidity when I head back out. Weird.
Otherwise, real brewed Iced Tea, not form a bottle, lotsa lemon and Orange Pekoe, then a good honey to sweeten, but busy-bee in a pinch will do. Doesn't really kill the thirst if you put too much honey in it, but it tastes good.
I also find that PC brand gingerale or Coca Cola (from a glass bottle, the canned and/or plastic bottle stuff just tastes different) or root beer, any of the three, chilled to within a half degree of freezing, goes down nicely when your outside sweating.
I like water that has been seperated into hydrogen and oxygen molecules and then combined again to form scientificaly pure H2O. I feel very sophisticated drinking isolated water.
Another good nonalcoholic drink for a hot day is grapefruit juice with some peyote. Sure, it might taste good without the hallucinogen, but what's the point of that?
split and squeeze a lime to a big glass, add some brown sugar to taste, then a shot of cachaça and fill with ice. if you like more cachaça use more of it, if more lime or ice, more of that. can't get any better.
and then eat some of those alcohol-absorpting chips...
it tastes rather mild ... vodkas, gins etc taste more sharp. it has some taste of sugar cane left, so if you ever have drank sugar cane juice (fresh, not canned!!) it is a bit like a mild tasting vodka with that flavour.
other good stuff:
- sugar cane juice. when it's fresh and made at the moment it's really tasty
- yerba mate. i'm nuts to drink it even cold ...
- cold espresso (sweetened) with ice crash or iced.
in egypt they make a hibiscus tea that was pretty tasty, after a hard day slog in the sun and sand. it took some getting used to, but by the third day i was addicted. however i kept wondering how it would taste with gin.....
Galco's rules for sodas and candies that you might have thought were't made anymore. If you live in SoCal, it's worth a trip, if not, they ship anywhere, practically.
sprecher root beer is made in milwaukee, and while researching my book "the bloody marys of milwaukee" i succumbed to the charms of sprecher root beer. it aroma is as fine as it's taste. it's especially delicious after an afternoon of lawn mowing.
but man it gave me the worst heart burn ever.
sprecher also makes regular beer, and it is my wifes favorite.
evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.
Evian water is good, and since i am merely a french alp's son, i will not say the contrary. But personnaly i prefer the volcano water : Volvic. In the contrary i hate heavy mineralized water like Contrex or Vittel.
One of the most refreshing non alcoholic drink i know is the Chose : half grapefruit juice, half schweppes.
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Originally posted by Jonathan
ok, murray... clam juice, crab juice... all disgusting.
honestly.
but its gotta be better than mountain dew
from episode 4f22 (illegally retransmitted transcript from snpp):
Homer: Now what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?
Vendor: Mountain Dew or crab juice.
Homer: Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice...
Originally posted by aquafire
Yeah,laying back an listening to him on the radio with just the slightest waft of a breeze to disturb the cool evening air.
whereas his radio work is vastly underated,
they always seemed be sweltering affairs. but mostly i was making a joke because i was nicking his style of prose in my posts. it was very vivian leighish.
Originally posted by Scott
I don't think they make Clamato anymore.
the hell
Otherwise, real brewed Iced Tea, not form a bottle, lotsa lemon and Orange Pekoe, then a good honey to sweeten, but busy-bee in a pinch will do. Doesn't really kill the thirst if you put too much honey in it, but it tastes good.
I also find that PC brand gingerale or Coca Cola (from a glass bottle, the canned and/or plastic bottle stuff just tastes different) or root beer, any of the three, chilled to within a half degree of freezing, goes down nicely when your outside sweating.
split and squeeze a lime to a big glass, add some brown sugar to taste, then a shot of cachaça and fill with ice. if you like more cachaça use more of it, if more lime or ice, more of that. can't get any better.
and then eat some of those alcohol-absorpting chips...
other good stuff:
- sugar cane juice. when it's fresh and made at the moment it's really tasty
- yerba mate. i'm nuts to drink it even cold ...
- cold espresso (sweetened) with ice crash or iced.
or
Galco's rules for sodas and candies that you might have thought were't made anymore. If you live in SoCal, it's worth a trip, if not, they ship anywhere, practically.
but man it gave me the worst heart burn ever.
sprecher also makes regular beer, and it is my wifes favorite.
Originally posted by Banjo Billy
evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.
Evian water is good, and since i am merely a french alp's son, i will not say the contrary. But personnaly i prefer the volcano water : Volvic. In the contrary i hate heavy mineralized water like Contrex or Vittel.
One of the most refreshing non alcoholic drink i know is the Chose : half grapefruit juice, half schweppes.
Originally posted by Banjo Billy
evian water. no substitutes. i dont drink anything that isnt from the french alps.
eeeewww, i took a leak in the alps once....right on an alp.
Originally posted by alcimedes
there is no truly refreshing drink on a hot summer day that has no alcohol.
For me, it's the exact opposite. Alcohol on a hot day just makes me feel hot and sweaty.
Iced tea, sparking mineral water, or just plain water for me.