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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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Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
(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.
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(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.
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(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.