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Subject: A pleasant way to start the day From: paddymac Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:13 AM There's a bit of a chill in the air this morning, and I'm up sooner than I have any reason to be. I'm in one of my "down on coffee" periods, and not exactly excited about any of the dozen or so varieties of herbal teas in the cabinet. What to do? Without really thinking about it, I reverted to a most pleasurable cool weather beverage "discovered" while "tenting" in three feet of snow in service to my country many years ago. I'd forgotten how delightful it is. What is it? Hot chocolate, with a bit of sloe gin added for flavor. If you like chocolate covered cherries, you'll love this stuff. Hope the rest of 'catland can start their day in an equally pleasurable fashion now and again. Hmmm, Good! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:22 AM Sounds delicious, but I could envisage what remains of my productivity draining away after a couple of cups of that! Ooooh, and I've just got some white chocolate hot chocolate which might be good with Bailey's in it... Anyone know how someone in the UK can get their hands on the Mexican hot chocolate that comes in segmented slabs and is gorgeous, sweet and rich? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gervase Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:30 AM You mean Montezuma's hot stuff, with chilli? It's wonderful stuff. You can get it at this site, but the post and packing is exorbitant. Other than that, there's a health food shop in Oxford that sells it (which doesn't help much as I can't remember the danred name!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: gnu Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:44 AM I'd think that would sloe you down. A brisque walk might be in order, but stay away from traffic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: GUEST,micca at work Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:04 AM I dont know about starting the day but a great way of treating a cold walk,(or ending the day) is cocoa as made in the Russian Arctic convoys,learned from and AB who served on them. Take a large 1pt British(20oz) mug add 2 dessertspoons (heaped) of cocoa powder(the best you can get add 2 dessert spoons of condensed milk mix to a smooth paste add boiling water stirring continuosly to about 3/4 full still stirring add 3 oz of dark rum (or to taste), stirring, drink,( if the temperature falls below about 50C it sets. Enjoy,
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: sian, west wales Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:05 AM Wait a minute. Chocolate with chilli. This is a *good* thing? Can anyone in the States tell me about a San Francisco brand of HC ... spelt something like Ghiardelli's? Just bought some in Cardiff for a friend originally from SF... Another friend (back to the UK now) swears by Green & Blacks... dreaming of cocoa sian
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:10 AM Hmmm.....I'll have to give these a try. Generally I start my day by giving my nuts a good scratching......but a change is good sometimes. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:47 AM Chilli and chocholate - two very wonderful ingredients! Nice! The Mexican stuff I meant was hot chocolate my friend brought back with him. It's in a solid block - you break off a bit (it's segmented) and mix it in with the hot milk - it takes ages to stir it all in and melt/dissolve it, but it's worth it. I think it was called "Grandma" something-or-other. It was goooood. My latest receipe is really good cocoa mixed with a spoonful of horlicks or ovaltine and hot milk to give a choclate malty taste like liquid maltesers. MMmmmm. Try Rumplemintz (sp?) liqueur or creme de menthe mixed in with hot chocolate - delicious. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:47 AM You could always add nuts, Spaw ;) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: katlaughing Date: 04 Dec 01 - 08:51 AM Ghiardelli's is supposed to be excellent. Fib, if you can't get it any other way, I'll ask my niece about it. She lives just over the border from Mexico, is a chocolate freak like the rest of us, and possibly could pick up some on her next trip or maybe even where she lives. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fortunato Date: 04 Dec 01 - 09:03 AM Sian, The spelling is Ghirardelli put it in your web browser and pick your source. Regards, Fort. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: GUEST,Guest Date: 04 Dec 01 - 09:53 AM I always thought the best way to start your day was with a shag !! bugger chocolate |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:03 AM Sheesh, Guest, it's difficult enough to open my eyes in the morning... After doing a bit of searching I came up with what I think is the chocolate I was talking about: Ibarra Chocolate: A brand of Mexican sweet chocolate used primarily for making hot chocolate. The chocolate is sold in the form of 3-inch round tablets that are packaged in octagon-shaped, cylindrical, bright yellow and red cardboard boxes. Ibarra chocolate is available in the imported food section in many supermarkets and specialty food shops. There's also a link to it: http://www.novamex.com/english/products/ibarra.html I'll try and track it down to buy it online. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:05 AM No sloe gin, for our visiting folkbaby, but she thinks her hot chocolate is "coffee." Hmmm.... sloe gin.... nope, bad idea.... except maybe at bedtime... nope! Oh well! A pleasant way to start the day also is to have a folkbaby wake you up as if she is all the sunshine ever created. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bat Goddess Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:12 AM Why mix the Horlick's with anything? I just lick it off the spoon. (What ever happened to the Horlick's tablets? Did they go the way of Schwepp's Bitter Lemon? I can't get either of them anymore.) My personal favorite cocoa is Bensdorp. (So far, at least; it's a project worth working at, eh?) Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:14 AM For those of you who like the Chili-Chocolate idea. you'd also probably enjoy "Cincinnati-Style Chili" which is a bit unique. It sells well in Cincy and the two main chains, Skyline and Goldstar, have expanded out a bit. There's a history as why it came to be, but the chili is very different with the two added ingredients of chocolate and nutmeg. It may be an acquired taste, but it's damn good. I make about every third pot around here in Cincy style. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: SINSULL Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:16 AM Fib - I am sure I can get it at my local supermarket. One of the pluses of living in Jackson Heights. I will let you know. Not sure about starting the day with a shot of gin... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Fibula Mattock Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:31 AM Cheers Sinsull (though I am unaware of the whereabouts of Jackson Heights!). In fact, if you can get it, I'll do you a trade for something local to my area (Norn Ireland or Bristol - so...potato bread or cider!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Kim C Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:45 AM Ibarra chocolate is awesome! We have lots of Mexican groceries around here, Fib, so if for some strange reason you can't find it online, or Sins can't find any, holler at me. I know exactly where to get some. I'd like to try chili chocolate. What do I do, melt down my Ibarra and put a dash of cayenne in it? Personally, I like hot cocoa with a little peppermint schnapps, and whipped cream on top. Spaw, we used to have an Empress Chili here in Nashville, which was Cincinnati-style chili. I loved it! What's your recipe for chili? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: wysiwyg Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:25 AM Izzat chocolili withOUT the sugar???? Venison chili with smoky chipotle peppers and black beans. Y el chocolat tambien, claro que si! Chili con chocolato. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bert Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:38 AM We picked up a bunch of Mexican Chocolate going cheap at a local grocery store. "Abuelita Autentico Chocolate Mexicano Para Mesa". You should be able to get close to it by making regular cocoa with a lot of sugar and a little cinnamon. But I'm in agreement with Micca, I like cocoa with a good slurp of Meyer's Rum. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bill D Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:44 AM well, I'll bet that Ibarra chocolate WITH rum would be out of this world!..YUM!..I have both on hand, too bad it is early in the day...it sounds like a 9PM drink to me... |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: paddymac Date: 04 Dec 01 - 01:07 PM Damn. Now I'm gonna have to go get a bottle of Meyer's, just so I can give Micca's recipe a try. I've never had it in hot chocolate, but love it as a summer drink - on the rocks with key lime &/or juice. Godd for preventing scurvy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Micca Date: 04 Dec 01 - 02:17 PM Paddymac, the summer drink is a REAL Cuba Libre abd the proportions are VITAL.. 2 oz Dark rum of your choice over a lot of ice( a Pint (British Tankard is good for this),br> 1 oz of Fresh lime Juice and a slice of lime for garnish( these key? limes sound interesting) and 10 ozs of Coca Cola( NOT DIET, and not pepsi) and stir, the colder the better Have NO plans for the rest of the day.. after the second or third one of these, you wont care!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Dec 01 - 02:18 PM They used to do Hot Chocolate with Brandy at one of the pubs we visited on the Abram dance day. It had a particular Germanic-sounding name that was something like Lumbader but I can't remember properly. Anyway - it was delicious. Even after having danced the Abram circle 17 times in the middle of June! Must be even better off the Pisté ;-) As to having sex to start the day - that I can imagine. But trying to imagine buggering chocolate.... The mind boggles! Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Diva Date: 04 Dec 01 - 02:31 PM Look forward to trying the hot chocolate Micca...as for the Cuba Libre.....fell asleep!!!!! Diva (party animal!!!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Jim Krause Date: 04 Dec 01 - 02:36 PM paddy, I think I'd prefer a dolop of Amaretto in place of the sloe gin in my cocoa. Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: 53 Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:10 PM i try to start my day with a good walk, while the weather is still good. BOB |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Dec 01 - 03:57 PM I'm kinda' with Dave the Gnome on this.......I can;t conjure up the right image of someone buggering chocolate.........Maybe someone being buggered with chocolate, but uh.............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bert Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:01 PM P'raps they're thinking of Hersheys. That's already buggered. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:58 PM I like hot cocalate.john |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:00 PM that should of corse read chocalate.(I like Guinness as well)! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gareth Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:15 PM Concur - When sailing I aimed to greet the dawn with "Gunfire" Hot Tea, prefereably made with Condensed Milk, and a large splosh of Issue "Pussers" Rum. Unfortunately I have to drive 40 miles to work - and a tot in the morning is not the best way to keep your licencse. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Amos Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:40 PM My joy on a chill dawn watch was a huge mug of Cafe Royale -- about 75% black coffee and 25% brandy, preferably Napoleon. Now some might take exception to treating Napoleon that way, but my background is all on the Limey's side, so I'm glad to rough him up a bit... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 04 Dec 01 - 07:45 PM So what's a "Chill dawn" for you now Amos, there in SD......65 or so? LOL Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Jim Krause Date: 05 Dec 01 - 01:44 PM Actually, the truth be known, I really think that the best way to start off the day is with a plain ol' cuppa hot joe, served up black. The cocoa with the dolop of Amaretto (di Sorono, please) is best served in the evening. Sorta like desert in a mug. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gareth Date: 05 Dec 01 - 01:49 PM Amos - calling a Welshman a "limey" is rather less diplomatic than calling a Texan a "Yankee" Gareth ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bert Date: 05 Dec 01 - 02:00 PM That's right. Amos, you call a Welshman Taffy! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Jim Krause Date: 05 Dec 01 - 02:04 PM Nah, taffy is something that ya buy at a candy store. I'd call a Welshman Mr. Jones, or Davies, or Powell. Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Morticia Date: 05 Dec 01 - 02:32 PM Glad to hear someone mention coffee, this is the second thread on hot chocolate or cocoa and those, presumably very few of us, who cannot stand hot milk type drinks feel very left out....well, that might be just me, I guess.Anyway, any suggestions for hot,non-milky drinks + additions out there? Not to start the day with,( I suspect rolling in to work not giving a bugger might improve my day but not my clients) but at bedtime, so can't contain caffiene either.As I am suffering from insomnia at the moment, I'd be dead grateful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Linda Kelly Date: 05 Dec 01 - 03:02 PM A cup of freshly ground coffee, no cream but with a generous slug of cointreau or Tia Maria and a dollop of either coffee or chocolate ice-cream is generally considered to be better that a cold wash with a wet sponge first thing AM. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Amos Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:17 PM Taffy Pouw, I wasn't calling anyone in particular a Limey -- it was with respect to old Bonaparte, against whom many old English sea dogs had a special grudge, ye see, that I said I was on the Limey's side -- because of the waste of good cognac. Spaw, if it gets that cold I just stands in bed. There are some things beyond civilized conduct, and that includes going to work in the freezing cold -- anything below 70º!! Warmest regards, A.
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bat Goddess Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:22 PM Rum in hot chocolate is nice, but Sambuca is better. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bert Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:28 PM Hi Mortyluv, try hot apple juice with a slurp of Calvados or vodka and hot Ribena with rum. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gareth Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:48 PM Amos - I acept, with magnaminity, your comments.
Brandy for the Parson, 'baccy for the Clerk, Garydd. PS Not just confined to British sailors !!! The Perfideous French (and Scots) didn't like the Longbow, mainley wielded buy us Welsh Mercenaries. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Morticia Date: 05 Dec 01 - 06:53 PM Bert, I hate to present as a hopeless case but I don't like apple juice either......sorry!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: paddymac Date: 06 Dec 01 - 04:22 AM Morti - you might try OJ & sloe gin for a different taste treat, but I've never had it as an "un-cold" beverage and wouldn't think of it on a chill morn. For a summer's morn, however, it is pleasant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:41 AM My 'Tad used to drink 'Welsh Coffee' when he was out fishing - you get a flask of tea, and put some gin in it :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: paddymac Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:04 AM Micca = "key limes" are a smaller, thinner-skinned, more intensely flavored variety of lime. I don't know whether they are just a cultivar of the same species as the more common "Persian lime," or perhaps a different species altogether. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gervase Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:51 AM Morticia, Mulled wine and beer would be the answer then - cinamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, orange peel, lemon zest and all - and guaranteed to make you sleep like a log. And with the microwave (heresy, I know, but...) they're a doddle to knock up. Avoid really rot-gut cheap reds, though - even when mulled they can still give you a bastard behind the eyes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gervase Date: 07 Dec 01 - 06:04 AM ...on the other hand, Guest above is right - there's nothing better than a good shag to start the day! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Morticia Date: 07 Dec 01 - 08:48 AM thankssssssshhh, fer thatt, |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Bert Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:33 PM Well try http://recipes.alastra.com/drinks/buttered-rum01.html then Morty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:31 PM If you're really in need of a nice coffee drink, might I suggest the "Vulcan Mind Probe" as what you're after. There are several versions of this but the one served at the bar over at Atwood (a favorite place for Karen and I) is pretty spectacular:
1 0z. Bacardi 151 Whatever else you're doing that evening, do it before you have one. Spaw
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Raptor Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:36 PM No Wonder spaw farts all the time! Raptor |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Wesley S Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:43 PM Geez, Spaw - there wouldn't be much of a mind to probe after one of those! |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Jim Krause Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:43 PM Yegods, I think a better name for the above would be Vulcan Porcelan Bowl Probe. Just reading that recipe darn near made me toss my breakfast. Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:54 PM Seriously guys, it's one of those odd combinations that tastes far less potent than it actually is, a slightly "more bite" version of many of the usual booze and coffee drinks. They never said what was in it when we had the first one and it was really nice. They didn't invent it as the "VMP" is a legitimate drink, they said they just created the "nightcap" version. About halfway through you feel it slowly coming on and by the time you finish.....well, you're finished. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Morticia Date: 07 Dec 01 - 02:01 PM Oh boy, Bert....you cetainly know how to please a girl *BG*......now, where did I put the cinnamon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: gnu Date: 07 Dec 01 - 02:23 PM The only reason I offer the following drink is that many people suffer from heart burn when ingesting fruit juices. A buddy of mine likes rum and orange juice. This combination will give you heartburn, if you are prone. However... orange juice first, rum (always keep your rum in the freezer), maraschino cherry juice and two cherries (leave the stem on if you are talented... nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Pour the rum and cherry juice slowly and do not stir. The rum will sink. The drink will become stronger as you drink it, but the mixture at the bottom will soothe your stomach as it does your mind. Eat the cherries in a bodacious manner, thus signalling your host to offer you another. I have named this drink a "Snarple". No... I have no idea why... they wouldn't tell me the next day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Morticia Date: 12 Dec 01 - 03:01 PM Damn, damn, damn.I got all the ingredients together for Bert's Hot Buttered Rum and then dropped the bottle of rum outside on the pavement when the carrier bag burst.Then I remembered it was Bert who was talking about the pathetic inadequacies of plastic carrier bags last week....strange, these little coincidences, aren't they? |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Dec 01 - 07:35 PM Hey, Gervase, nice shag! My mate the rufty tufty biker, likes a nice fat pair of boobies - got any of those?? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: A pleasant way to start the day From: Gervase Date: 13 Dec 01 - 08:36 AM Do you mean the hairy ones! §;^) |