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Ask Soylent - What to Do With a Bottle of Creme de Menthe

posted by martyb on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the alcoholic-mouthwash dept.

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: 5, Insightful) by looorg on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:52PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Sunday November 18 2018, @09:52PM (#763620)

    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.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 19 2018, @03:19AM (#763764)

    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.