Does anyone from America knows what Pastis is? No it is not anisette.. it's much better and much stronger.. but it seems like a totally european drink.. well it's French but when I'm in the U.S everyone thinks I'm talking about anisette. Well no.
that's what I originally thoguth this was gonna be about damn you for having the slight creativity to turn such a thing into a joke and make me feel dumb for not +_+
apparently it's just not popular. sucks down a bottle of 2 below, disdaining any european who doesn't know of it.
aww thanks yours is cool too! well it's too bad it didn't make it to America, great liquor, extremely popular in Europe - especially France and Germany..
so it's liquor? I was thinking it was some sort of fancy wine. Can you tell us more about it in terms of taste?
it's pretty much like ouzo imo except a heavier anise content. It's like absinthe light. It took about a month to get the smell of it out of my shaker.
there's something called pasties, that are like a pot pie that cornish miners broght over to nevada city when they worked in the mines there 70 to 150 years ago or something like that. you eat it like a sandwidge. it's like something to take to work or school in a lunch pale. it has like a pie shell all arround it on all sides and usually has meat and potatoes inside of it, but not the gravy we usually think of pot pies as having. they can of course be vegitarian ones too. the main thing i thing that defines them is the pie shell and the lots of pre steamed potatoes inside, along with all the other ingredients. of these i've had many and they are invariably very good when still hot or reheated, and mostly pretty good, if a bit dry, when cold. on the other hand. i think i did hear of pastis somewhere or another though. not sure if i've ever had any. probably someone mentioned it in some book i read somewhere. probably a science fiction story. lots of good things in real life that's the first place i ever heard of them. i think lafferty may have mentioned pastis along with entibbis in 'sandaliotis where are you'. and 'the appocolypsus of eniscourt sweazey' or someone somewhere like that. or ron goulart. or harry harrison, or somebody in something. i remember the one time i met jamie oakenshield he was mentioning something about something like that. =^^= .../\...
when they outlawed absinthe in France, because of the wine merchants collective power at the time, the same companies that were making absinthe concocted a recipe that didn't contain the psychoactive wormwood. They called it pastis. You can probably find it at your neighborhood liquor store. it isn't that rare.
