An elderly friend died last year and among other things I inherited a couple of bottles of Creme de Menthe. For anyone unfamiliar, it's bright green and very minty -- 60 proof / 30% alcohol by volume. I'm not a regular drinker, and I am one of those weirdos that believes in waste-not, want-not, so I felt obligated to find a way to (slowly) consume it. My eventual choice was to pour a shot or two over a bowl of chocolate ice cream -- not bad, compare to mint chocolate-chip ice cream, with a little kick.
Any other suggestions?
[An Anonymous Editor suggested Creme de Menthe Brownies (located at the bottom of the page).]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:20PM (13 children)
Because the submitter feels like part of the community and thought he'd ask a question and get interesting answers from our motley crew?
Don't be such a curmudgeon!
My thought for what to do with it is throw it in a blender with chocolate chip mint ice cream and make a spiked milkshake. Call it "yeti poo" or something.
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:12PM (10 children)
Isn't that what the SN journals are for?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:45PM (7 children)
Generally speaking, yes. Our standard preference for tech/science/whatnot is applied much less strenuously to Ask Soylent submissions though. That's a personal observation not me speaking on policy. I don't know that we have a policy on AS subs at all.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday November 19 2018, @12:06AM (6 children)
Write one quick or you'll get 'Ask Soylent': "Why are Aristarchus submissions rejected?"
:)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 19 2018, @12:27AM
If you don't have a fixed policy, you can use common sense.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Monday November 19 2018, @01:02AM (4 children)
Why are aristarchus submissions rejected? You may well ask. Half a dozen met their unmaker just today, and fine submissions they were. We mourn. Of course, as janrinok was wont to say, they belonged in a journal, not on the front page, like this pile of vomit that smells of mint.
(for our soylentil, a suggestion. Chug the entire bottle. You have never heard of anyone dying of Creme d'Menthe poisoning, have you? Of course, that might just be because it was too embarrassing to be reported publically. On second thought, the "Hot Chocolate" solution may be preferable.)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @01:24AM (2 children)
Just a wild stab in the dark here but at least this one was original, quirky, odd and somewhat entertaining and not the same news over and over again. Yes we get it now, Nazis are bad ... ooookay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @02:47AM (1 child)
> not the same news over and over again
Thanks -- you get it!
I'm the AC submitter with the bottle of Hiram Walker brand green (it's very old, no idea if this is still available).
One of my tech related submissions is languishing in the queue right now, my hit ratio might be a little better than Ari's, but not much. I threw this out for the hell of it, didn't really expect it would be picked up by the editors--and have been away from the 'net for the last 8 hours so it seems pretty funny to check in and find 50 comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 20 2018, @01:47AM
Hiram Walker is a quality bar brand. they suggest this :
1 part Green Crème de Menthe
1 part White Crème de Cacao
1 part Vodka
Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Chugg ;}
(Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:51AM
"pile of vomit that smells of mint."
I had a girlfriend once who took a bottle of Goldschlager to a Halloween party. Nobody else could stomach more than a joke shot of the stuff, so she wound up drinking most of the bottle herself. She spent most of the night projectile vomiting sparkly gold-flecked spew all over the bathroom. It was oddly beautiful, in a Jackson Pollock kind of way.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:25AM (1 child)
What's an SN journal? Googling "soylent news journal" doesn't turn up anything useful/appropriate, so presumably that's not it.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Monday November 19 2018, @03:48PM
Instead of googling, try looking at the bar of links on the top left of the page. Specifically the one that says "Journals".
(Score: 1) by braddollar on Monday November 19 2018, @01:55AM (1 child)
I'm all for it, but I was wondering if maybe there was some deep connection to normal topics that I was unaware of. Such as:
Perhaps Creme de Menthe has become preferred drink of programmers everywhere, but nobody is openly admitting it so sub had to ask somewhere?
Maybe somebody developed a new car engine that is powered by a Creme de Menthe based solution, and as a result the exhaust is minty fresh?
What if it was discovered that Creme de Menthe was a super powered aphrodisiac for some endangered animal?
Or maybe all of the above, and so the sub is trying to determine which would be best?
Essentially I was hoping for something that would make it less mundane for me :D
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:22AM
Maybe you could run a comparative study between yeti poo that uses Creme de Menthe vs. Peppermint Schnapps. Study participants can easily be recruited at a nearby freshman dorm (or grocery store parking lot on Friday nights, if you don't have a college nearby.) Chart the results across various axes like "induces regurgitation" or "accidental catatonia." It would probably be the definitive work on the matter that you could shop around for a research grant.
See? Just takes a little imagination. ;-)
Washington DC delenda est.