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Have you ever tried absinthe?


It’s a super tipple, sláinte!

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Looking for little green fairies, are we? ;)

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No. It always makes me think of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Absinthe#/media/File:Edgar_Degas_-_In_a_Café_-_Google_Art_Project_2.jpg

I've heard it tastes of licorice, but don't know how it's different from any other liquor as far as its effect. What makes it a super tipple?

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I wouldn't say it tastes of liquorice; I'd say try it - you never know.

What makes it super? The preparation and the fact that it's a bit different.

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Too much effort to get it, and then if I don't like it I'm stuck with an entire bottle. Besides, it'll make me look like that woman in the painting!!

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LOL. No, I meant could you not try one in a bar, then if you don't like it you've only wasted one shot's worth. Whenever I go in a bar I've never been in before, I always try and find a drink I've never tried because you never know what you might find.

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I don't go to bars, so it'd have never occurred to me to go to one and ask for absinth. No idea if there are any bars around here that serve it.

I can tell you I'm NOT going to that bar in the painting. I don't care if it is in Paris!

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Yes, that bar could do with livening up.

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That lady in the painting has some serious stuff to work through!

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LOL!

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Doesn't look like she's having a very happy life, poor thing ☹️

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Sad painting!

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It is :(. Makes me imagine what her life must have been like 😢

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