FlaSoxxJim

You ain't seen temper yet.

Why, I oughta. . .

Getting away for the weekend with the family, so all drinking will be done without a long-winded play by play. I needed to finish off a can of passionfruit juice I'd opened a few days ago — which is why both the drinks I talked about here had passionfruit juice as an ingredient. If you like tropical rum drinks and want to expand beyond pineapple and orange juice as the main drink extenders, give passionfruit juice a try. A mix of the three of them in proportions that suit your tastes actually open the palate of a tropical drink up quite nicely. Anyway, I finished off the juice with a very polarizing drink that I've named Pirate's Passion. Despite the gold rum and fruit juice, the taste is clearly on the savory side of the flavor spectrum and so it doesn't appeal to some of the Tiki crowd that only go in for the sour/sweet drinks. It's a simple drink that I really like though, and if you have these ingredients handy, you should mix one up and give it a go: • 1.5 oz Appleton Reserve (sub V/X if you're as cheapskate or Extra if you're a Rockefeller) • 0.25-0.5 oz sweet (red) vermouth (to taste) • 2 oz passionfruit juice • dash Angostura bitters – Shake all ingredients with crushed ice and serve. I found the blueprint for this drink — minus the passionfruit juice — in a hit-and-miss tiki cocktail recipe book. The rum and red vermouth by themselves were intriguing but the drink just didn't come together flavor-wise. The passionfruit juice rounds out the flavors and also is a nice extender that turns a short hoist into a semi-long drink. The dash of bitters adds to the savory side of the palate and is one of a handful of drinks I make where it absolutely brings the drink over and I won't make the drink if I don't have biters on hand. I've tried the drink with Peychaud's bitters and it's an interesting twist. Need to try with orange bitters. If you think that all rum drinks are too cloyingly sweet (which is true of cr@ppy drinks mixed by lazy bartenders at many places), this is one you might like.

Rum is the answer. What was the question? $hit!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2009 -> 09:55 AM) My bone to pick was that the trade in should have been for a car with at least 5 mpg more than the one you turned in. Agreed. My 165K mile Saturn is EPA-rated to efficient to be clunker-worthy, or else I'd be driving a new Prius right now.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 21, 2009 -> 08:08 AM) they were conflated together into one word with the same meaning even though they are really separate words! That is something I will remember for ever and ever. Which is one ever longer than forever.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 21, 2009 -> 12:52 PM) Coop's wife is known to lurk. If I looked like Coop's wife, I'd lurk too. In very poorly lit areas.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Aug 21, 2009 -> 12:02 PM) I'm 24, young, energetic, and good looking. Who here on SoxTalk are you trying to score a date with?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 21, 2009 -> 08:00 AM) Just post a .jpg of a dining room table and move on. Most people in this country who talk about socialism, communism, capitalism, nazism or fascism have a very shallow understanding of what any of those terms really means. How often are socialism and communism conflated together? How many think Marx's ideas represent the entirety of communism? Isn't that redundant over and over again and again. Sorry, I just wasn't sure Soxy would stop in to Grammar Cop this.

Luden's Cough Syrup??

Jamaican Rum!

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 10:42 PM) Favorite sex positions? Strongly in favor of. Anybody holding a contrary position is obviously doing it wrong.

Geritol®, please. . .

Salmon spawn and then they die.

Quartz deposits are older than me. By at least 20 minutes.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 08:50 PM) I just figured you were thinking of changing your name to Nova. Damn You!! Damn You ALL TO HELL!!!

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 09:00 PM) I think that's how you know when you are REALLY getting old. I see BigEd there, see him say he is 59. Now, if I was 16 or so I would look at him and say "ha, look at the old guy". But now, being much wiser, I look at him and say "damn, that is soooo cool! He's seen some pretty kick ass stuff in his time now!". Ya learn how to respect and appreciate life a bit more. Spoken like a man looking out at the abyss of impending old age. I Kid Kid Because I Care.®

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 05:05 PM) 22. Will be 23 in 2 months. Meanwhile.. Jim, Tex, Rex, Yasny etc.. are trying to avoid this thread at all cost. Not avoiding it - I couldn't find my #%* bifocals. . . Douglas Adams says my age is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. That's supposed to be comforting I guess.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 04:46 PM) Thought this would be funny. I bet you did. grrrr

Knowing how close the Mariners came to beating the Tigers tonight just galls me.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 04:47 PM) Tailor? Love the reference, though. And Steve, I guess not every movie can be as good as the Time Traveler's Wife. Uhm, yep, tailor. Oops.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 02:48 PM) Well, technically he wasn't a Stooge, it was Iggy AND The Stooges. I'll refute that, based on the name of the band at the time of their debut release.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 02:40 PM) Inglourious Basterds getting 84% at RT so far after 70+ reviews. I read a 1-star review that ripped it to shreds.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) Though I do prefer the classic pint glasses, the ones that actually hold a pint: It was a very shrewed beancounter somewhere who decided that US pub pint glasses should only be 14.5 oz. My Irish pub knows to only serve my Guinness in British Pint glasses and to not try shorting me with the runty pseudopints.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 01:14 PM) Nope, not me. Though I like them, I am a much bigger fan of the other comedy teams. I'm a Marx Brothers fanatic and I will take Laurel and Hardy over the Stooges any day of the week. Ah, it was qwerty who is the Stooge Head, and used to watch them with his uncle.