Covid vaccine from Russia - With love

[Rick]

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Oh, I'll be fine. I've been taking that for years.

 

[fiver]

you know,,,
I have never thought about it before, but does China have a national alcoholic drink?

 

[RicinYakima]

Made in China for more than 5,000 years, Baijiu is the country's national drink, and is a spirit distilled from wheat or glutinous rice. Each bottle of Baijiu can be classified into the one of the following flavour categories: strong, light, sauce (soy), rice and mixed.

99% of it is poorly made, by western standards, with too much fusel oils and light end nasty's. However, they judge the quality by the hangover, the worse the hangover, the better time you must have had. FWIW

 

[Ian]

Been on the board ten minutes this morning. Already learned something completely new. Other than plum wine at the local Hunan place and having some "fine" Saki with a wealthy Japanese exchange student (not gonna say what I thought THAT stuff tasted like because y'all will think I really know, but it wasn't good), I never gave Asian alcoholic drinks much thought.

 

[Joshua]

Baijiu

I’ve spent a bunch of time in Japan. I would hear all these stories on Monday about the drinking that went on over the weekend. On one of these trips we had an older Korean-American on our crew. He would always buy lots of Soju for our co-workers.

I’d have dinner with these guys, but wouldn’t go to the bars with them. I haven’t had a drink in 22 years, and don’t plan too ever again. I’m allergic to alcohol; I break out in felonies all over!

Here is a quote from Wikipedia about this variety of Asian liquor. Each country has basically the same beverage with a slightly different name.

“Chinese shāojiǔ (烧酒), more commonly known as báijiǔ (白酒), and Japanese shōchū(焼酎), with the altered second character, are the words with the same origin with Korean soju.“

Josh

 

[Rick]

I'm with Ian, all the Saki I've had was somewhere between terrible to worse than that.

 

[Gary]

Wasn't all that bad (Saki) if you didn't drink it hot, like they serve it.

 

[Rick H]

Don't know much about Asian booze but my daughter's father in law (Japanese descent born in Hawaii, interred, and VN war veteran) once made the acquaintance of some nasty Greek stuff called Ouzo. Tastes great, but hits you like the hammer of Thor.

There is a reason I don't drink much anymore....just that Ouzo stuff killed enough brain cells that I don't really remember why. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[RBHarter]

I had some saki once , I place it with the rest of the Eurasian distilled spirits in flavor something between isopropyl and diesel fuel . Don't trust my taster though it relies heavily on my nose that was ruined by assorted pain , thinners , MEK , MEKP , and mould release products . More of a Port , Reisling , syrup kind of guy that marvels at how a glass full of ice and 40% alcohol can taste like sweet tea w lemon or lime or both .

I've wondered for some time why the places that sell disinfectant intended for human consumption were all closed , but it looks like the Russians have found a work around .

 

[Ian]

Saki should be served at body temperature, so I was told. If you open a can of Budweiser and set it on a shelf in your garage for a week in the summer and then sip it out of a shot glass, that's about the effect.

I wasn't aware that the Russians actually drank (or shot up) Smirnoff. Smirnoff is to vodka what Canadian Hunter is to Scotch.

 

[popper]

Ouzo Once illegal in the US as it has/had a high narcotic content. Sake (rice wine) was made here for a long time, called rice beer. Phillipeos had pewari(sp?) that was any vegitable they could find with lots of sugar added. Fermented in a gallon tin can behind the reefer. Kinda like the sun cooked eggs call blukes(sp?).

 

[Blaster]

 

[Missionary]

Peru is trying to get the Rusky Mix. Hopefully they never get enough to reach us.
The Russia I remember sent men into combat with no rifles Tried to land men on the moon alive one way. Sent out tanks with a slow mechanical main gun loader that maybe worked right sometimes. ECT.......

 

[Rockydoc]

Saki should be served at body temperature, so I was told. If you open a can of Budweiser and set it on a shelf in your garage for a week in the summer and then sip it out of a shot glass, that's about the effect.

I wasn't aware that the Russians actually drank (or shot up) Smirnoff. Smirnoff is to vodka what Canadian Hunter is to Scotch.

I've been to Russia. I went a ballet, in the intermission they had a bar in the lobby where a number of different vodkas were offered. I tried several, they were the best I have ever tasted, and I can taste the difference. Smirnoff wasn't even offered.

You can't get those great vodkas in the USA, at least not that I have been able to find. My favorite vodka is made in France.

Sake at room temperature I don't care for. The low cost common brands I prefer heated. The most expensive ones are served chilled. Some of those are unfiltered, cloudy looking. I prefer filtered, chilled for sipping, hot common when eating sushi, etc.

 

[fiver]

how in hell did I derail this thread and it stayed on topic anyway?

 

[Joshua]

how in hell did I derail this thread and it stayed on topic anyway?

Got to step up your game!