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).]
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by braddollar on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:49PM (29 children)
is there some angle on this that i'm unaware of that makes it relevant on soylent?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:58PM
SoylentNews is dead people.
Slow News Sunday?
Now I want to know what's a good Creme de Menthe brand. Probably not this one [davidsonsliquors.com].
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(Score: 5, Funny) by RamiK on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)
It's a bait-and-switch for editors. You hook them on with horrible submissions and when the poor saps starts complaining you reel them in with "if you think you can do a better job at it be my guest".
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Monday November 19 2018, @12:55AM (1 child)
The cake is a lie, as is the Creme d' Methe. I have tried that "submit better stories" routine. It does not work. Ends up being all takyon subs, anyway, or proxy takyon subs, like this one. Now what I hear is that all the young people today are in to absorbing things, um, rectally. [theguardian.com] Learned about it from Gitmo. So, at least you would have minty-fresh flatulence.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @04:43AM
FTFY
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:17PM (1 child)
Yeah, it doesn't say "News for Nerds" at the top here, so we can discuss normal-people stuff too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:29AM
Well Gale Boetticher drinks Creme de Menthe and he's supposed to be a nerd...
(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.
Washington DC delenda est.
(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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(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.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:59PM (7 children)
It's called karma-whoring. A big-boy would spend 10 minutes on google or bing and find the answers himself, instead of fishing for mod points.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Monday November 19 2018, @12:18AM (2 children)
Pretty much every frequent user has between 40-50 karma, and it's capped at 50. There is no reason to karma whore.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @01:27AM (1 child)
This is why it should be uncapped or raised. So we can use it as a highscore-meter.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday November 20 2018, @12:18AM
Or we could just do what I already suggested once and give the user a button to voluntarily reset their karma to zero, or some other low starting value. It might seem crazy, but I think some people would use it, for the reasons given by the parent. I would.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday November 19 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)
Personally -- I like the submission. Not everything has to be serious all the time.
(Score: 1) by sensei_moreh on Monday November 19 2018, @12:47AM
Personally, I like Creme de Menthe - preferably blended with chocolate or mint chocolate chip ice cream. Perhaps it could be used as inspiration for a decent GTK3 theme
Geology - It's not rocket science; it's rock science
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:37AM (1 child)
You lie. Bing is for the lowest of the proles. And, Google is sinking almost as low. Big boys use the duck. Real men just reach through the screen, and manually drag answers out of the web.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:52AM
I used to ask CowboyNeal. That guy knew everything.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:41AM
A bit of a different story is sometimes a good thing. All grey tech news gets a little dull, even with all the Win10 and Intel shenanigans in the daily feed.
A shot of Menthe while installing yet another Mint on a formerly Windows machine. Ah... yes.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:52PM (1 child)
Gather some people that knew the dead person and do shots. Reminisce said person and complain about their poor taste in alcoholic beverage consumption. Was said person a little old lady cause I just don't know of anyone else that drinks stuff like that.
Mixing it with Ice cream is a pretty good idea tho, but I would have gone with something with a very mild vanilla flavored instead so as to keep the taste.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:19AM
Bingo! Said benefactor was a very smart little old lady who lived down the street.
She really did die at 95, no remaining family, but a large group of devoted friends. No kids, outlived her husband. We had a nice memorial dinner for her, don't think the restaurant/bar would have appreciated if we brought our own booze...
At our local university she was one of a very few women to graduate with a science degree. About the time that I was born in the 1950s, her job was "computer" -- she solved engineering problems using a variety of desktop adding/calculating machines. Later, she became a Fortran programmer in the punch card days. And she had a very active volunteer life, all sorts of different interests.
I never knew she liked Creme de Menthe, but there it was along with a small assortment of other kinds of old booze. There was also some wine and champagne, but the corks dried out (stored standing up) and this was all bad. Some of the old bourbon is pretty tasty.
(Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:56PM (11 children)
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:59PM (4 children)
Creme de Menthe is a generic liqueur, so no, it's not.
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 19 2018, @12:11AM (3 children)
It's also a shitty Liqueur, so if SN is advertising it, then it would be like back when Slashdot advertised Packt Publishing.
My first suggestion would be to sell it to desperate high school kids, because they're the only ones who would willingly drink that shit.
Failing that, I'd use it to Irish up my Irish Coffee a little more. Irish coffees are a fantastic way to cap off the Thanksgiving night with pumpkin or pecan pie topped with french vanilla ice cream, and the Irish coffee will keep you warm and cozy until bedtime.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:19AM (1 child)
Stupider words have rarely been spoken.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 19 2018, @12:49AM
Ed Krassenstein, is that you?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:43AM
When I was in the Navy, I'd drink the stuff. I drank anything, if some chick recommended it. The hotter the chick, the more ridiculous stuff I'd drink. Today - blehhh. I'll stick with a beer now and then, or a shot of Scotch whiskey. The AC who thinks you're stupid is only about fifty times stupider than you.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:56PM (4 children)
Yes, I'm sure to the Creme de Menthe people we're exactly their target audience.
Before you know it there'll be articles extolling the benefits of the Corby trouser press or how cod liver oil is used to lubricate rocket parts.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday November 19 2018, @12:11AM (2 children)
God, now I want some crème de menthe with a cod liver oil chaser!
Damn you monkey-person!
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday November 19 2018, @12:14AM (1 child)
If Marty ended up eating it with ice cream, then that's probably the exact effect he got. The booze/dairy combination is not very kind on the stomach, despite what the marketing department of Kahlua might tell you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:43AM
> booze/dairy combination is not very kind on the stomach
Never heard of anyone having problems after drinking spiked eggnog, which is also booze/dairy. Do you have a reference, or just personal experience...?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:44AM
Well, I've never seen a cod get stuck inside of a rocket engine, have you?
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Monday November 19 2018, @02:17AM
Had this been a question about Mountain Dew I'd agree.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)
Make hot chocolate (on the stove, for real, not from a packet). Add mint booze to taste.
If you are still a kiddo, Long Island Iced tea: http://cocktailsandshots.com/recipe/long-island-iced-tea/ [cocktailsandshots.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday November 19 2018, @12:27AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:18PM (1 child)
Like this maybe? https://www.cooks.com/recipe/fw2zy36b/creme-de-menthe-salad.html [cooks.com]
Or maybe cream it up and throw a strawberry on top: https://www.fromvalerieskitchen.com/strawberries-with-creme-de-menthe-whipped-cream/ [fromvalerieskitchen.com]
You can also switch the ratios on the topping option and go with a parfaits: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/creme-de-menthe-parfaits-recipe-1911786 [foodnetwork.com]
If you have real culinary skills you should go with Chocolate and Creme de Menthe Macarons: http://www.junipercakery.co.uk/blog/chocolate-creme-de-menthe-macarons/ [junipercakery.co.uk]
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday November 19 2018, @06:27AM
If the OP is one for baking, how about making a chocolate (layer) cake, and putting Creme de Menthe in the buttercream frosting?
It wouldn't use it up quickly, but that's no problem. My mother-in-law only recently finished a bottle of banana liqueur that had been knocking around since the 70s, using it to sautée bananas before serving hot with ice cream. She's now moved on to using up a coconut liqueur in the same manner...
(Score: 5, Informative) by archfeld on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:24PM (2 children)
Yeah it is an odd article, but one posted by a frequent visitor or member of this very dysfunctional Soylent 'Family'. Why would people take the time to voice their opposition to the article and NOT make a suggestion on what to do with Crème De Menthe ? As someone who has an Uncle that owns a bar, I'd 'donate' the stuff to the bar and go back to slinging darts, but that is just me. YMMV of course.
"A fluffy, minty, frozen pie with a chocolate sandwich cookie crust. It's easy to prepare and has a festive color."
Ingredients -
25 chocolate sandwich cookies
115 g butter, melted (1/2 cup)
205 g marshmallow creme (2 cups)
60 ml creme de menthe liqueur (1/4 cup)
475 ml whipping cream (2 cups)
Directions -
1 Crush cookies and set aside 1/4 cup of crumbs. Place remaining crumbs in a medium bowl and mix in melted butter. Press mixture firmly into bottom and sides of a 9 inch springform pan.
2 In a large mixing bowl, whip together marshmallow creme and creme de menthe until smooth. In a separate bowl, whip cream until soft peaks form, then fold into marshmallow mixture. Pour mixture into pan and sprinkle reserved cookie crumbs on top. Freeze at least 2 hours, until firm. Remove from freezer 20 minutes before serving to soften slightly.
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(Score: 2) by dw861 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:29AM (1 child)
I have memories of eating something like this as a child, though I seem to remember it setting in the fridge rather than the freezer. Whatever the differences, my mom probably used less creme de menthe, or it evaporated somehow before being fed to kids. We called it grasshopper pie.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday November 19 2018, @03:22AM
I've never had grasshopper pie but I have had a drink called a grasshopper.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:27PM (3 children)
Make grasshoppers or some such.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:00PM (1 child)
I'll suggest the simplest way to make it palatable (to my taste at least) - just pour it over ice. Lots of ice, easy on the liqueur, and wait till the ice starts to melt to start sipping it.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Monday November 19 2018, @12:57AM
Make that crushed ice and sip it from a straw or two from the bottom of the glass. It's an excellent way to counteract a vindaloo.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 19 2018, @05:40AM
Jeez, three quarters of the way down the line before someone suggests Grasshoppers. As if there's anything else to do with a bottle of CdM. (Ok, there are [thespruceeats.com]... but Grasshopppers are the perfection of Creme de Menthe and anything else is a novelty drink (ok, so are Grasshoppers but at least they taste good).
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:29PM (2 children)
Chug it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:45AM
you first
If you want something to practice with, you could try green Scope mouthwash...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @07:30PM
Does it go well with Sterno?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:20PM (8 children)
This is the problem. Drop the ice cream and crack a beer or two -- you deserve it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:29AM (7 children)
Do you honestly think adding a hint of mint to piss will make the piss more palatable?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Acabatag on Monday November 19 2018, @12:40AM (3 children)
Beer is actually a practical water purification method.
Or it was, when it wasn't an anachronism.
Towns had breweries to produce a beverage that wasn't unsafe to drink.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:56AM (1 child)
One of those infinite shows on Ancient Egypt they run on cable said beer was the pharaoh's soldiers' daily ration of food + drink (they fermented it by throwing chunks of sourdough bread into the barrel).
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @09:36AM
Yep. Until about roman times, pretty much all bread that wasn't flat was sourdough, and beer used the same yeasts. Eventually, breweries got big enough that byproducts of alcohol production (the "barm") was used (for people who could afford it at least) until yeasts started to be grown industrially (mid-1800s?).
(Score: 3, Informative) by archfeld on Monday November 19 2018, @03:26AM
Low beer or Small beer as it was commonly known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:42AM (2 children)
I have no idea, I don't drink urine although some bars serve lagers that are close enough. But hey, if you're a piss drinker; Try it and get back to us!
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday November 19 2018, @02:26AM (1 child)
Eating asparagus changes the smell of urine
How much creme de menthe to get an effect? Experiments required. For science!
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:58AM
In the US there's a major holiday coming up this week that revolves around eating and drinking too much. Perhaps Soylentils can experiment with different concepts and re-convene to compare notes after the holiday and horrific hangovers have passed.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PocketSizeSUn on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:48PM
I think the biggest issue here is that webtender lists Creme de Menthe under 'White Creme de Menthe' and 'Green Creme de Menthe'
if you don't care about the resulting color (White)
https://www.webtender.com/db/ingred/205 [webtender.com]
And green:
https://www.webtender.com/db/ingred/15 [webtender.com]
That's a total of 77 and 61 drinks respectively .. with most drinks being 30ml per, that should net you about 22 drinks per bottle (assuming common 750ml bottles) ..
So pick out the ~44 drinks that look reasonable or otherwise match with you liquor cabinet.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:37AM (5 children)
Use it to make pie crusts. Alcohol will add liquid to make the crust easier to work, but not allow for gluten development (the protein structure obtained through kneading requires water).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @09:40AM (3 children)
You shouldn't really be handling pie crust enough enough for it to form gluten anyways. Cut in your butter, mix until it holds together and shape.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @11:36AM (1 child)
While it is true you shouldn't be mixing enough to develop gluten, lots of folks overdo it by accident, or tear the crust and end up re-rolling or add too much flour during rolling or whatever.
Adding high proof alcohol has been shown to help mitigate gluten development with some of this, resulting in an extra tender/flake crust. The original recipe that made the rounds quite a few years ago used vodka, but I immediately realized it could also help with flavor. Making an apple pie? Add some apple brandy, etc. Chocolate mint seems a good application here too.
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Monday November 19 2018, @12:42PM
You follow Alton Brown, don't you?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @01:01PM
True, but it will still make it easier to handle. It can also allow you to use a higher protein flour, which will promote browning of the crust, with less caution.
Different techniques and recipes for different problems:
Too much browning - add a little bit of acidic ingredients (lemon juice, vinegar, tartaric acid) to inhibit the Maillard reaction, use a bleached low protein flour (cake flour or southern flours like White Lily), use a light colored pie dish and don't or only briefly blind bake, use water instead of milk, etc.
Tough pie crust - substitute some alcohol for water, use a low protein flour, use whole wheat flour, substitute some non-gluten flour (e.g. almond flour), use shortening or lard instead of butter (which is ~20% water), etc.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday November 19 2018, @08:49PM
If you're all that worried about gluten, use a gluten-free flour! Cup4Cup's blend is good for flaky pastries. Personally, I have my own mix of sorghum, tapioca, and almond flours with potato starch and xanthan gum, but I don't remember the exact proportions. The Gluten-Free On A Shoestring website has a recipe for this purpose [glutenfreeonashoestring.com] as well.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @01:08AM
We used to pour it on ice cream, which was tasty.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday November 19 2018, @01:23AM (5 children)
As far as I know it'll keep pretty much forever, so no hurry on trying the many suggestions you've gotten here. I remember it being nice on ice cream occasionally. There are many cake and desert recipes with it added, like the brownies you mentioned.
Sorry you lost your friend, and kudos to you for honoring her/him, even in this small way.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 19 2018, @02:52AM (4 children)
If the cap makes a good seal, most alcoholic beverages last for ages. If you happen to get a poorly fitting seal, you can come back to an opened bottle, to find that the alcohol has evaporated. We ought to be aware that not all bottle caps are equal.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday November 19 2018, @04:02AM (2 children)
You know, I was thinking that but it seemed obvious so didn't write it. But yes, absolutely, nice tight screw-on cap. Corks have to be kept wet. Otherwise in umpteen years you have some green syrup.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 19 2018, @07:24AM (1 child)
I had one case of about twenty months. Asked the wife to pick up some Scotch, and she did so. Went through about half the bottle in a couple months, then just didn't want any again for awhile. The holiday season rolled around again, and I reached for the bottle. The goo at the bottom just didn't look very appetizing. It could have been my own fault - maybe I didn't screw the top as tightly as I should have. But, I really think that the cap made a poor seal for some reason other than my own carelessness. Had I finished the bottle sooner, it wouldn't have been an issue.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday November 19 2018, @01:56PM
That "goo" was the good stuff! Just add water (or not), grain alcohol, stir, enjoy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:46PM
Yeah, caps that don't seal... I wonder if you heard that from a teenager who might have been covering for something? If there is a teenager in the house, I'd look there before looking at the caps!!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 19 2018, @02:26AM
The ONLY redeeming quality of the stuffy old-person restaurant my parents used to take me to a few times a year was their Creme d'Menthe on vanilla ice cream dessert. Served in a tall, chilled metal parfait dish, it made up for having to smell fried fish for an hour.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @05:48AM
When you have your family over during the holidays, server them vanilla ice cream with it poured over the top. Even the kids. It's super good.
(Score: 1) by splenolymph on Monday November 19 2018, @11:43AM
Save all but one bottle for the 28 days later style apocalypse. You never know when that stuff might come in handy!.
With the remaining bottle.. mix 1:1 it with a cream liqueur - such as baileys (irish) or amarula (south african) - this results in something called a 'springbok' and it is quite enjoyable, since the creme liqueur really smooths out the minty flavour.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @12:01PM
If you have an imagination and a girlfriend / wife you could have lots of fantastic sticky sex...or I suspect that in your case you could use your hand and pretend you have a girlfriend but still have great sex...
Showering together after is fun too.
Protip: Use old sheets on yer bed too...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by VLM on Monday November 19 2018, @01:04PM (1 child)
You got peppermint oil in an alcohol solution... peppermint oil contains a ton of stuff including menthol. Menthol cigarettes are overwhelmingly a black person thing. The FDA is banning menthol vape juice and cigs and getting called 'racist' for doing it. So would you be doing a nice thing by civil disobedience selling your stuff to black folks as a menthol vape juice replacement or to drip on regular cigs for that kool menthol smoke, or a bad thing by encouraging them to smoke, or ... its quite a moral and ethical minefield. Its kind of like how legal abortion has killed 15 million black people in the USA, is that good or bad and how so? Hitler killed fewer Jews than Roe v Wade has killed blacks.
Semi seriously I can't think of any "fun" chemistry to do with peppermint oil or menthol in specific although I might just be sleepy. Anyone thing of something chemically speaking fun to do with it?
A better question that FDA vape policy or boring food chemistry lab tricks, is how did elderly person end up with many bottles of that stuff? That is the REAL weird story. A literal life time supply of that stuff is likely a mere six bottle shipping crate. I'm pretty sure I have a half bottle from last century, somewhere. Of course I don't drink much, but still...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @02:21PM
It's kind of like how Ron Jeremy has Bukkake'd mass murder over and over.
Your suggestions aren't very good. Why don't you go back to the political nexus and spare us your righteous indignation?
(Score: 2) by danmars on Monday November 19 2018, @05:33PM
The only time I've ever bought/used the stuff was to make a "Grasshopper Pie" one time. Not bad, though you'll take a long time to go through it.
(Score: 1) by doke on Monday November 19 2018, @08:56PM
Get a vanilla milkshake. Mix in Creme de Menthe. Get a good Shamrock Shake.