yeah fergus henderson has a lot of love for the fernet-branca. i remember some other article where he said it's his first drink of the morning 'to open the eyes, calm the kidneys and start the day'. so cool.
― t_g, Thursday, 8 May 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a friend that works in the restaurant industry who used to show up to work and ask for a 'cold espresso' (served in a demi-tasse for the sake of discretion) as an eye opener.
― Michael White, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2011/3/10/1299772907773/Fergus-Henderson-007.jpg
― just sayin, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Had a bit of a Branca Mental evening last night, brought a bottle to a party and to my amazement almost the whole thing got drunk (and drunk straight). Popular opinion was "it's not as repulsive as Fernet". Some evidence of strange psychological aftereffects today.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
What on earth???
"You think you’re tasting mint. Everybody thinks it’s mint. But it’s actually saffron, a ridiculously high concentration of it. In fact, some have speculated that Fernet-Branca uses as much as 75% of the world’s saffron and controls the global market. "
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
does fernet... hang on a sec... fernet valda go off? i mean if the answer is yes, and i'm not here to thank you record misadventure.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i don't think it rly matters which fernet obv.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
ok i'm taking a sip.
well it tastes like wormword.. that's good right? it doesn't taste quite right...
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
i mean im listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lEu3smXWPo
that'll be ok right?
actually i'm feeling a little weird. might chuck this and have a whisky instead.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
aw hell
http://youtu.be/7lEu3smXWPo
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
ah what the hell have i become one of those people who can't post youtube links?
see you on the whisky link imo.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're probably good
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
yes, thanks cad. I mean what can possibly go wrong? it's alcohol and in this partick case alcohol that freezes things harder'n a black hole. nevertheless, I'm going for a chill macallan to set me up for my nocturnal coma.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
who is fizzles tho
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, really, when u get right down to it
don't ask me, srsly. I wish I fuckin knew.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
Fernet (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈnɛt]) is a type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit.
would fit in well hereabouts n'est pas
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
like black licorice-flavored Listerine.
ah here wtf is this like chartreuse
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
first time i ever got pissed chartreuse was involved i got nothing good to say about chartreuse
I mean I use you as a leitmo-benchmark. the only aroma round here is morbidity tbh, but it's all lol iirc.
xpost
or something. I wuz gwine do a Stendhal joek but couldnae be aris'd.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've never had green chartreuse. feeling the lack right now.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's fantastic value, it was 16 years ago and i'm still retching from the slow finish
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh I missed it.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
s'ok you've been drinking innit
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
you can tell the quality of a chartreuse by the legs of vomit it leaves down the wall of your beloved's parent's house.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like anything
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh an observational comedian.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
galliano, that was another good one, that funny bottle almost designed to be slipped into the inner pocket of a 16 year old's jacket, assuming he was cute/desperate enough to tear the bottom out of said pocket and subsequently lose the whole fuckin bottle round the back of his coat's inner lining
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like /anything/
I wish you'd told me that before I started sd. all I've got is darragh and that's like using shifting sands as a lighthouse.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
three of us puking into the sinks in double physics the next morning, don't tell me it was misspent
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i'm flighty on remembered drunks
For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
grasping for a bottle in the inner lining of a long-ago given jacket without any due regard for the hiding that went into the f'ing process in the first place is... a thing. I'm listening to some loud music it's making it difficult to...
we had a corporate trainer type fella come into work today. nice chap. complete twat. I mean that's how you think about life srsly?
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
I swear this fernet is off. drinking macallan
we should have a general 'thread for having drunk stuff that's not really meant to be drunk like that' so as not to spoil this one tbf
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like trying fernet again tho. seandelai has convinced me.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Everyone should drink it once.
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh xpost fair enough. I'm kinda wanting to hug darragh n seandelai. that's bad.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:47 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fernet is like something, and that something is toothpaste
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not sure that corporate trainers think like that, i like to think they're just paid to travel round and pretend they do. you'd hope so, i mean, you'd really hope so.
we have to import all of ours from england, i mean without exception any of these people i've ever encountered are english, probably from greater manchester had i to narrow it down. i've just checked and i have been agreed with.
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm only drinking this cos continental strength lager and cramp sweetish red wine brother bought me last night is finished. I watched dark knight rises while drinking it.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Fernet tastes like Jaegermeister without the syrupy sweetness.and/or liquid potpourri
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
no I agree with the Greater Manchester location. this person was sincerely mamchester.
crap not cramp.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
that has all the hallmarks of a quality thread revive fizzles, go for it imo
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to try this off fernet again. ilx - makes you drink.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
the add for thor makes me want to see thor
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
Ok ok, you guys punctured my hyperbole. Hope you're proud of yourselves.
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
also interesting. i’ve got a large and steadily diminishing bottle of fernet in the kitchen cupboard. steadily diminishing because i’ve got into the bad habit of pouring myself several large slugs of the stuff after returning home from a night out.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
In Madrid a few years ago, my wife ordered fernet at a bar, expecting to get a little digestif-sized serving. The bartender clearly didn't know what the stuff was, even though she had a bottle of it, so she gave my wife a full 8-oz glass of it, no rocks or anything. Just a whole glass of room-temp fernet. Most of it got left behind when we went to the next bar.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
bottle of fernet as a wedding present y/n
― seandalai, Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
if they don't like it they can send it to me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
y.“here is some bitter wormwood that will unhinge your head and bring you together in mutual drunkenness”
― Fizzles, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
I vote no.
― Yerac, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
this is a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA93AmMF5CI
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
it’s good, it does the job
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 September 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Every time this is bumped I get a hangover
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 13:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 September 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
with gin
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 September 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/238126853930152/
― coptic feels (seandalai), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
#OnThisDay 1976: Esther Rantzen took to the streets to trial an Italian hangover cure.
Reactions consistent with when I started bringing Fernet to parties 30 years later.
― coptic feels (seandalai), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
let the record show that this turned out to be unreliable advice
― coptic feels (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
i love fernet and have been drinking... too much of it during quarantine
straight, room temperature, preferably with an ice cold modelo especial
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
going to go get some now, i decided
fernet on the rocks on the first really warm day of the year >>>>
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
during a snowstorm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
I am not generally a fan of alternative Fernets...but I've been drinking Fernet Francisco and it's pretty good! More open than yr Branca but equally consumable in large quantities...
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
fernet update: drinking fernet on the rocks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
we actually bought a small bottle of Jaegermeister recently, something I hadn't tasted in probably 25 years
It was ice cold and it wasn't half bad - nice herbal profile, not too sweet
I'll wait another 25 years and try it again
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link