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bergamot's lavender essence

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Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 11:44 AM
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Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 11:47 AM
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I want to get to second base with the bitters in my G&T.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 11:56 AM
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Gives new meaning to "essential oils".


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:00 PM
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Upon googling it looks like you borrowed that phrase from Tazo, but it confuses me. Bergamot is citrus and isn't related to lavender at all (AFAIK).


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:09 PM
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It's like you've never even been in an ad agency.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:12 PM
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They're twins. From Mississippi.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:12 PM
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That baffled me as well. Why would bergamot have any lavender essence? Why not use lavender for lavender essence? I am quite busy today, and cannot be figuring this out.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:18 PM
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Lavender, while it's not citrus, does have a vaguely lemony sort of fresh smell? I could see someone thinking of bergamot as smelling kind of like lavender? Not exactly, but they're in the same vague category?

I dunno.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:19 PM
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2. Tazo Earl gray with the exquisite phrases on the box is $6.49 for 58 grams. Ahmad Ceylon tea is $6.99 for 500 grams, and the brown package ceylon tea or Sadaf, which are boxes around identical foil packages, is a little less.

I share the impulse to spitefully mock descriptive phrases for food, it seems that every adjective doubles the price, more so if the visual design of the page or package is a thoughtless medley of typefaces.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:19 PM
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I don't drink hot tea very often. When I do, it's from vending machines. It seems fine.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:22 PM
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Upon googling

Comment 2 contains a "hyperlink."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:24 PM
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The adjective that seems ubiquitous lately is "garbage". I like it.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:38 PM
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When does "link" come to mean only "hyperlink" unless further modified. The worst part of the 90s boom, except for the whole new oligarchy created, was all the stupid terminology.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:39 PM
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We got married and then when we got tested it turns out we're identical twins!

What do we do now?????


Posted by: Bergamot and Lavender | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:46 PM
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I'm happy because last night I strained and decanted the gin I'd made from infused vodka (juniper, rose hip, cardamom, peppercorns, half a dried Persian lime this time) and I'm intrigued by other options I could try next (lemongrass?) since this is my favorite yet, but I'm not inclined to fall back on kissing OR fucking descriptions. "Infusing" should probably be a euphemism for something filthy, but if it is I sure don't know.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:48 PM
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15: Shake what your momma gave you both at the exact same time.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:49 PM
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I'm sure you have excellent reasons for not buying actual gin.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:53 PM
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I also buy actual gin, sure! But what I'm make often tastes as good as expensive ones and puts a giant bottle of ridiculously cheap vodka out of its misery. (Actually I've been trying not to drink much while I'm miserable lest I make things worse, but that's maybe a different story? Also no kissing or sex.)


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:56 PM
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Do people still macerate fruits in liquor or has that gone the way of all flesh?


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 12:57 PM
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last night I strained and decanted the gin I'd made from infused vodka

You can do that? Finally a purpose for the all useless vodka I have taking up space in my cabinet.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 1:03 PM
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Dooo eeet, Spike! I started with recipes like this but never used two kinds of vodka or a Brita filter or anything beyond throwing some juniper+stuff in a bottle of vodka and turning it occasionally before running it through a coffee filter or something. I smelled this a week ago and it was like lime pickle in rubbing alcohol (which to be honest I'd maybe try) but I added more juniper and cardamom and left it a week and with the caveat that I wrote that last parenthetical, it's now smooth and delicious.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 1:08 PM
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puts a giant bottle of ridiculously cheap vodka out of its misery
This others-before-self thing is really way out of hand here.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 1:09 PM
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Damnit, Mossy, if I wanted to talk to my therapist I'd pay... actually I'll stop here before you start charging me for your comments and I can no longer afford decent gin.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 1:16 PM
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Alas, it will have to wait for summer. There are not a lot of junipers growing down here, unfortunately.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 2:21 PM
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Do people still macerate fruits in liquor or has that gone the way of all flesh?

Next time you're in the UK, dude, come to my house and I'll serve you some damson gin.

Thorn, that sounds like a lovely gin mix!


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 2:28 PM
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I bought my stuff from the spice store, I admit.


Posted by: Thorn | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 2:44 PM
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Since 1960!


Posted by: Opinionated Schlitz Ad Executive | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 2:48 PM
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Do people still macerate fruits in liquor or has that gone the way of all flesh?

I do, but only because I haven't got anything better to put my fruits in.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 04-17-17 3:22 PM
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No ice cream?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-18-17 4:51 AM
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OT: One of my co-workers just say Obama go into the church across the street from here. I really miss him.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 04-18-17 8:39 AM
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