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posted by janrinok on Saturday October 15 2016, @11:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-they-drive-home dept.

"How to set a tone of woodsy chic at a four-course candlelight dinner served under the stars in the Colorado foothills:

Live musicians and flowers, check. Award-winning cuisine, check. Beer and wine pairings with each course, check. Marijuana pairings? Oh, yes.

The 100 diners at this $200-a-plate dinner smoked a citrus-smelling marijuana strain to go with a fall salad with apples, dates and bacon, followed by a darker, sweeter strain of pot to accompany a main course of slow-roasted pork shoulder in a mole sauce with charred root vegetables and rice.

And with dessert? Marijuana-infused chocolate, of course, grated over salted caramel ice cream and paired with coffee infused with non-intoxicating hemp oil.

The diners received small glass pieces and lighters to smoke the pairings, or they could have their marijuana rolled into joints by professional rollers set up next to a bartender pouring wine.

Welcome to fine dining in Weed Country."

- Full Article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046
- Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20161013102626/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/gourmet-ganja-marijuana-dining-growing-slowly-42769046


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:51AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:51AM (#414724) Homepage

    Hell yeah, back when I smoked tobacco nothing beat the synergistic effect of both the tobacco and weed at once. Whether you're mixing them and rolling them in a paper European-style, or smoking it in a blunt with some real authentic Blacks over a jug of Carlo Rossi wine, the whole process of the preparation and anticipation was as great as the smoking itself.

    Having to clean grass is something the young whippersnappers will never understand. Breaking down that chunk of schwag peeled off the brick and smuggled through the cow's ass, breaking it up by hand (with larger amounts, it would be a team effort with multiple people cleaning the weed), and quickly removing the seeds by spreading the crumbles all over the cover of a vinyl record and tapping it while holding it as a slight angle so that all the seeds rolled right off while the shit stayed in place, and the hilarious look of surprise as the errant seed popped like popcorn while being lit in the pipe.

    I remember bringing a rolling machine to a smoke-out once, and getting laughed-at and chided for it, because it was "mechanizing" the process. Ahh, the old heady days of blacklights, lava-lamps, homemade pipes made from sprite bottles, and stolen booze.

  • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:50AM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday October 16 2016, @01:50AM (#414738)

    They say marijuana is not addictive but it seems you have been doing this for a while...

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:05AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:05AM (#414742) Homepage

      Nope. I've abstained from pot many times, in fact now even.

      It is addictive, though only for a certain type of "addictive." You're not gonna be breaking your kids' piggy-banks for your next fix.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:33AM (#414750)

      Breathing is also addictive, and death is a withdrawal symptom.

    • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday October 16 2016, @04:08PM

      by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday October 16 2016, @04:08PM (#414885) Homepage Journal

      They say orange juice is not addictive but...

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