[Dixielandjazz] On topic! Scottish pronunciation (for Scotch lovers - the rest of you swine simply delete)

[David Richoux]

 From my personal experience (in a very, very authentic Greek  
restaurant in the French Quarter,[ I think maybe now Banu Gibson's  
club -to get slightly back on topic]) real Ouzo is more related to  
Absinthe. "Tourist Ouzo" does not have the "secret ingredient" but it  
still tastes more like Absinthe. I have tasted Absinthe legally in  
Spain and Brazil, by the way (Damn the Federales! ;-) and the  
sensation of the wormwood was the same as the Ouzo from New Orleans.)

The Wormwood that is a key ingredient in "real Ouzo"  is most  
assuredly not found in single malt scotch!

If you mix Absinthe or Ouzo with water it clouds up - if you mix  
single malt with a "wee bit" of water (from the source, or if that is  
not available, distilled) you get perfection!


Dave Richoux

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On Mar 14, 2007, at 5:13 PM, EDWIN COLTRIN wrote:

> Ouzo in the same thread as Single malts, at least you didn't  
> mention 'retsina'!
>
>   Slainte m'hath
>
>   Ed Coltrain
>
>
>   OArkas at aol.com wrote:
>   Thomas Zorbas Wigginopoulos said:
>
> <<...after a while we are all speaking the same language
> "Greek"  :))  Or at least it sounds like Greek to me :))>>
>
> So we say to him:
>
> GEIA SOU, BRE QOMA!!!!!!!
>
> Ha!! LOL!! If the Greek fonts come up on your computer for you,  
> that says
> Yeia Sou Vre Thomas!!! (or health to you Thomas) "IN GREEK slang!!!
>
> If you drink enough ouzo or tsipouro or Metaxa cognac, you can read  
> it and
> understand it!!!!
>
> John
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