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On its own or with water or something else?


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 8:24 pm
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I prefer with water, but have enjoyed it sraight as well.


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 8:26 pm
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with water


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 8:29 pm
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Cheese or cornish?


 
Posted : 18/07/2009 8:34 pm
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Mmmmmmmm, pastis......
Water and ice cubes. You are not supposed to put ice in it until water is, but I have never heard a reasponable explanation for this.

You can also put mint syrup along with the water (comes in can-type bottle in french supermarket) and call it 'un perroquet' (parrot), or grenadine makes 'une tomate' (tomato). Or almond syrup makes it something whose neame escapes me. These are somewhat frowned upon by some serious pastis drinkers (think bar ends on risers) although still very nice to drink.

Finally if you are a rascally student type, pernod and snakebite and black is pretty devistating. Oh and pernod is by no means the best pastis, just the only one in most pubs in the yookay. The others are very noticeably different and worth a punt.

Santé! 😀


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 7:41 am
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We used to drink it with red bull on a big night out. Much better than vodka as you can actually taste it.


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 8:27 am
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Pastis* over ice one a Mediterranean summers evening looking down from St Maxime towards St Tropez.

Great memories from my honeymoon.

*It was Richard rather than Pernod or Pastis 51 but if I said I had Richard on my honeymoon you lot would probably s****


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 8:54 am
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neat


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 8:57 am
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Horribe stuff. You'll be drinking Raki next.


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 9:04 am
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And what's wrong with raki? I happen to enjoy raki when consumed after dinner in a taverna overlooking a harbour in Greece somewhere with the sun setting over the water...


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 2:48 pm
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JulianA - Were you with Richard?


 
Posted : 19/07/2009 3:08 pm