Champ wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:00:50 -0700 (PDT), darsy 
> wrote:
>
> >you think Black Sambuca is bad for hangovers?
> >
> >Try Fernet Branca.
> >
> >Even reading the ingredients list makes me feel a bit bilious (/Myrhh/
> >and Rhubarb for starters.)
>
> Fucks sake - you actually swallowed enough Fernet Branca to get a
> hangover?
>
> Burnt brought some back from a foreign trip and I tried it at his
> place.  The smell is appalling, but the taste worse.  One sip was
> enough for me to know I never, ever wanted to taste it again.

heh. It is pretty disgusting. I only ever tasted one thing worse, and
that was some Norwegian aquavit that tasted like Sandersons throat
specific.

I eventually palmed the Norwegian stuff on to a Welshman. The only
bottle I couldn't / wouldn't finish (and I can stomach some pretty
foul drinks [1])

P.

[1] Currently heading through a bottle of Icelandic Aalborg Akvavit
Jubilaem. Ugh.