How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

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.

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. "

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.

i mean i don't think it rly matters which fernet obv.

ok i'm taking a sip.

well it tastes like wormword.. that's good right? it doesn't taste quite right...

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.

aw hell

http://youtu.be/7lEu3smXWPo

ah what the hell have i become one of those people who can't post youtube links?

see you on the whisky link imo.

i think you're probably good

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.

who is fizzles tho

i mean, really, when u get right down to it

don't ask me, srsly. I wish I fuckin knew.

it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down

Fernet (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈnɛt]) is a type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit.

would fit in well hereabouts n'est pas

like black licorice-flavored Listerine.

ah here wtf is this like chartreuse

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.

I've never had green chartreuse. feeling the lack right now.

it's fantastic value, it was 16 years ago and i'm still retching from the slow finish

it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down

oh I missed it.

s'ok you've been drinking innit

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.

oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like anything

s'ok you've been drinking innit

oh an observational comedian.

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

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.

three of us puking into the sinks in double physics the next morning, don't tell me it was misspent

sorry i'm flighty on remembered drunks

For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.

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

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?

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

I feel like trying fernet again tho. seandelai has convinced me.

Everyone should drink it once.

oh xpost fair enough. I'm kinda wanting to hug darragh n seandelai. that's bad.

oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like anything

― 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

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.

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.

Fernet tastes like Jaegermeister without the syrupy sweetness.
and/or liquid potpourri

no I agree with the Greater Manchester location. this person was sincerely mamchester.

crap not cramp.

that has all the hallmarks of a quality thread revive fizzles, go for it imo

I'm going to try this off fernet again. ilx - makes you drink.

the add for thor makes me want to see thor

Ok ok, you guys punctured my hyperbole. Hope you're proud of yourselves.

that has all the hallmarks of a quality thread revive fizzles, go for it imo

I'm trying, d, I'm trying. it's not all architect's boards and libertarian g/fs tho.

it's pronounced hyperbole fyi

^ my favourite ronan joke ever

if they don't like it they can send it to me

y.

“here is some bitter wormwood that will unhinge your head and bring you together in mutual drunkenness”

I vote no.

this is a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA93AmMF5CI

it’s good, it does the job

Every time this is bumped I get a hangover

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 13:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

with gin

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/238126853930152/

#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.

For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

let the record show that this turned out to be unreliable advice

lol

i love fernet and have been drinking... too much of it during quarantine

straight, room temperature, preferably with an ice cold modelo especial

going to go get some now, i decided

fernet on the rocks on the first really warm day of the year >>>>

during a snowstorm

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...

fernet update: drinking fernet on the rocks

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