Me, turning to the man waiting to pay behind me: “Raspberry rum”
Man: “?”
Me, gazing down at the label: “You have such wonderful liquor stores in America….”
Man: “Where are you from?”
Me: “Saskatchewan.”
Man: “Oh, in Canada”.
Me: “Yeah. Where I come from our socialist government owns the liquor stores”.
Man: “Really?”
Me: “They make us line up to buy bread flavoured rum“.
I’ve been putting kubasa into my vodka for years.
kovbasa with the vodka is also quite tasty.
Ever had a pickleback?
Vodka with a pickle juice finish.
Kubasa eh? Garlic meaty vodka. That could work.
I once sucked back a 26er of polish Vodka with this old bohunk truck driver I worked with. Stuff had a wheat straw suspended in the bottle.
Without a doubt the gawdawfullest booze I ever drank. Made swish taste like Crown Royal.
Syncro
“straw”
Syncro
A couple years ago I was visiting some of my relatives in the Saskatoon area and even though I have been there many many times, it was the first time I ventured to the liquor store. I was amazed at the lack of selection and the ridiculous store hours. Took me a few minutes to clue in that Saskatchewan still had government ran liquor stores.
When in Alberta I highly suggest the Co-op liquor stores for the best selections, although I’m sure kubasa infused vodka won’t be an option anytime soon 😛
Ever had a pickleback?
Vodka with a pickle juice finish.
Amateur. Vodka with a Scope chaser. Then you know where you are.
Ah, but at the private stores, you can ask and they may get it for you! They like customers.
Syncro. That was probably buffalo grass vodka. One of my fav’s. I can pronounce the Polish name but can’t write it.
Salmon works very good matched with lots of foods. Smoked salmon ice cream with cracked black pepper is incredible.
Kubasa goes good with anything. Especially double smoked kubasa.
Provincial governments will never give up the cash cows that are liquor and beer outlets.
Besides, as big brother in Ontario has stated ( time and time again) its adults cannot be trusted with the purchasing of liquor or beer without government help; it may lead to alcoholism.
Just ask father Dalton
Gord. That sounds about right. I definitely remember the epic sick that followed a few hours later.
I’ve been respectful of Vodka ever since.
Syncro
Speaking of government cash cows, everyone in Ontario & BC should not forget to fill up your gas tanks before midnight. Every penny kept away from them the better.
used to booze with a nazi 11 year prisoner of the russkies…only medicine in work camp was vodka…
the drinking style was as follows…pour a snort…down it while holding your nose and then biting on a pickle or mouldy rye brot…or sumpin…
in polite circles this is called ‘zakuska’ which is a formalized polish drinking shorts style of behaviour…
sometimes i LUV multikulturalism
There is only one wodka and that is – Московская особая водка (Moskovskaya special vodka) in the green and gold labelled bottle. (Slight hint of caraway).
You say cocktail mix – vat’s dis cocktail ting? Yust putting to outside 40 below and ven pours like glycerine – make it Za zdorovie many times!
Jon
[…..Ever had a pickleback?
Vodka with a pickle juice finish….]
Only way….I prefer dill picle-juice myself…
Too much time spent with Russians…that’s my excuse….
Russians firmly believe pickle juice is a hangover cure…….
Medium rare vodka ?
the vinegar in the pickle juice kills the acid indigestion , but careful you don’t choke it out through your nose
Ahh,vudka. A shooter of ice cold vudka,a pickled onion,and a slice of genoa salami. Chew up the pickle and salami,then rinse with the vudka.Repeat as necessary.
In Kate’s ‘bread flavored rum’ link: Alaska Distillery’s take on their salmon-flavored vodka-
“Once the fish is smoked the skin is removed and employees masticate the fillets. The chunks are placed…..”
Excu-u-u-use Me,?? Masticate? Isn’t that like, ‘chew on’? Be damned if I’d have 3-tooth’d Nanooktituk and the lovely Igquaaliglulak, (‘Call me Betty’), as my most best fave distiller artisans!
As I recall from days of yore, the Polish buffalo grass vodka was called Wyborova.
A relative of mine worked in Moscow for a time, had to throw a work relative party.
Figured, some beer, some wine, and given he was inviting Russians 1/2 a bottle of vodka per person.
His admin assistant blanched in horror: “No No!” she cried. “1.5 to 2 bottles per person is the accepted number” My father looked at her, and ordered more.
The beer and wine were barely cracked, there was 1/2 bottle out of the total Vodkaa left at the end.
Relative has awesome respect for Russian drinkers.
Back in college I remember driving for miles only to be glared at by the unionized board store employees as I paid for my warm domestic beer. That is assuming I wasn’t too late ’cause they kept bankers hours.
Thanks to Ralf, if I wanted to I could walk across the street and buy a box of exotic cold or warm beer from a smiling clerk at the specialty beer store. If I don’t want the beer there is a boutique wine store about half a block farther up the way. If I should want something harder there are two liquor stores within walking distance, one of which specializes in foreign and/or exotic liquors. Most of them are open til 2AM just in case….
30 can flat of Budweiser at the Costco in Maui cost me $19.99 this past November. Same price at the Whitefish, Montana Costco! That same tray of suds is near $50.00 here, if not more. Looking forward to retirement and subsequent alcoholism Stateside!
It is comforting to know that here in backwater Alberta, we mouth breathers have a far greater selection of excellent beer, wines and hard liqours from private owned stores than in the liberal la la land Ontario! Must be the socialism that limits choice, yes?
When I was in school,many years ago,there were stories in our history books about the bad American whiskey traders and the way that they victumized the Indians by plying them with alcohol and then taking advantage of them.In Canada,at the time,it was a federal crime to sell or supply Indians with alcohol.These many years later,with govt run liquor stores and free access to them by the Indians,the stories of bad American whiskey traders seem to have disappeared.I took those stories seriously and thaats why I think that the govt of Sask should GET OUT OF THE LIQUOR BUSINESS because I,as a citizen of Sask,am one of those whiskey traders.
A friend of mine worked in Russia for years, besides gifting me one of those wooden hand painted dolls that you open up only to find a smaller one inside and so on, I was given a large bottle of Russian Vodka – don’t remember the name of it – doubt I could even pronounce it. Talk about burn your insides – the stuff must have been 80 proof. Was much easier to swallow when placed in the freezer for a couple of hours.
Alaska could sell tonnes of Salmon vodka and bacon flavoured vodka – huge market only a couple of hundred miles away in Russia.
At one of my sister’s Christmas parties, my first cousin showed up just as we ran out of ice. My brother-in-law asked him if a frozen smelt would do, and he accepted. After that it became customary to have rum, coke, and frozen fish in a beer mug.
“Good evening sir. Have you had any drinks tonite?”
“No Oshciffer, I only had schome shmoked shalmon for dinner.”
“Hiccup”
I like Scope.
Can only imagine what Joe McGinness will be saying about Sarah Palin in his book after a few sessions of this latest vodka in the local saloon?
Wonder if he will be sipping some salmon flavoured martini’s? Would be hilarious to see this become the new drink of the leftist journalists. Can you just envision a bunch of surly, crusty old tabloidists sitting around, pinkies extended dissing those in the tea party?
This business of perfuming adult beverages is disgusting, and I demand that it stop at once!
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
*pours a shot of Screech and tosses it back*
and furthermore…
I like soup.
Syncro
soup’s good too.
yep
Syncro
I remember being in a wal-mart in Missouri lately and checking out booze prices. A “sixty six” (1.75L) of rum/whisky/vodka can be had for $10. I believe in Manitoba it is around $50. Quite the markup.
But to think of it, it’s brilliant. Since we got rid of food stamps welfare goes directly into banking accounts. Now we all know a lot of this “welfare” money gets spent on booze and smokes. Therefore it is a feedback loop.
“look boss, we increased our welfare payments plus our liquor revenue went up 23%!”
obviously none of you commenters have been “Hyderized”…
That would be a “positive feedback loop”…No?
Hyderized…hyderized….don’t rightly know.
Syncro
Don’t think we’re immune in the States, Pennsylvania has a state-run liquor store monopoly, too.
“Hyderized”, no known definition. But I can guess it means not passed through the definitive liberal explanation of the infinite liberal definition of stuff.
I like soup too
Been to Hyder. Memory of said visit slightly fuzzy.
dp: ” … After that it became customary to have rum, coke, and frozen fish in a beer mug.”
Now that’s a beautiful, uplifting story.
Meanwhile in BC, the government, apparently for for “social conscience” reasons refuses to reduce the HST savings on liquor, despite the fact that prices go up annually by a buck or so.
Meanwhile in BC, the government, apparently for for “social conscience” reasons refuses to reduce the HST savings on liquor, despite the fact that prices go up annually by a buck or so.
I live in North Carolina, USA and our liquor stores are state run. The Alcoholic Beverage Control regulates all liquor sales. Hence we call our liquor stores “ABC stores.”
I only like some soup.
I lived in the Dominican Republic in the early ’80s and back then a 26oz bottle of Coke was more expensive than a 26oz bottle of rum. I quickly adopted the local custom of enjoying my rum neat with an occasional Coke chaser.
If you want to know how pathetic the state run liquor stores are in Vermont? Whenever we want something nice, we run across the border and stop by the duty free stores in Quebec.
On the topic of booze, I think john begley might be The Most Interesting Man in the World from those Dos Equis adds.
“Can only imagine what Joe McGinness will be saying about Sarah Palin in his book after a few sessions of this latest vodka in the local saloon?
Wonder if he will be sipping some salmon flavoured martini’s?”
Tim Blair has beaten you to it:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/meat_the_new_drink/
“If you want to know how pathetic the state run liquor stores are in Vermont? Whenever we want something nice, we run across the border and stop by the duty free stores in Quebec.”
There are some advantages to living in the Ottawa Valley.
A big one is being able to cross over the river to Québec and take advantage of all the beer and wine stores there from the SAQ, the smaller private outlets and even COSTCO.