Re: Booze

> Ok-  I am a woman of my word, so went to the local BevMo (Beverages & 
> More, for those of you who don't know what they are) and sure enough 
> they did have naVan.  Your price range was exactly correct $42 for a 750 
> ml bottle.  And the verdict is.....you are correct Chris.  It is a 
> wonderful flavor and whom ever thought to mix vanilla (REAL vanilla) 
> with cognac was brilliant. 

Yay!  I'm glad you liked it!

I went out this afternoon to Friar Tuck (one of the larger liquor stores
in town) and they didn't have Talea, so I have to keep looking.

> And I feel compelled to help Chris feel less like the chatlist lush.  

I appresheeate that.

> While in the store I was also looking at the Ouzo- and thougt that there 
> was something different looking about the Metaxa Ouzo bottle.  There 
> were several Ouzo choices, so I asked a very knowledgable employee there 
> (Fred) for his recommendation.  He did recommend the Metaxa, so I asked 
> him if they changed the bottle- the answer was yes.  Here's the scary 
> part-  I haven't bought a bottle of Ouzo in ages- like since college.  I 
> remembered what the bottle and label looked like from when I worked at a 
> DutyFree store during undergrad school (that would have been from 
> 1985-89).  How's that for a useless bit of trivia I maintained in my 
> brain! (P.S. Kahlua is the hardest liquor to clean out of a rug, and 151 
> rum will peel the paint off of a cement floor and clean it to the point 
> you could eat off of it).

Did you end up buying the Metaxa?  :)

I have a painted cement floor that needs stripping too; now I know what
to do with my Cruzan 151!

Speaking of cleaning rugs, Romeo chewed up a pen today on the 9x12 handmade
wool oriental rug that I inherited from my grandmother.  Argh.  I'll see
how well Resolve carpet cleaner really works once everything dries!  Or
is there a booze trick for that, too?  ;)

Chris

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