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
I'm trying, d, I'm trying. it's not all architect's boards and libertarian g/fs tho.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
it's pronounced hyperbole fyi
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
^ my favourite ronan joke ever
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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:20 (three 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 (three 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