Ryan Ginstrom wrote:

> Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>>Haven't seen any Colombian arguardiente on the shelves at my local
>>Sugita, so I'll take your word for it. Do you know if any are
>>available in Japan?
> 
> I don't, but I'm sure if you ask any of the local Columbians they'd sort you
> out.

I'm a little worried about being sorted out by Columbians, but I'll give 
it a lash.

>>I do have a bottle of Brazilian cachaca (Velho Barreiro) in stock, and
>>cachaca is a form of arguardiente. But without shitloads of ice,
>>papaya juice, pineapple juice or some other tropical fruit juice, it
>>simply tastes like shit. I don't speak Spanish or Portuguese, but one
>>of the local Brazilians tells me Cachaca basically translates as fire
>>water/burning water.
> 
> So does aguardiente...
> 
> I also can't take cachaca outside of a caipirinha. But I wouldn't be
> surprised if there weren't more high-end brands out there that tasted pretty
> nice.

Possibly. Until about two months ago I thought that there was simply no 
such thing as a mild or sophisticated tequila and that all tequila gave 
absolutely terrible hangovers.

>>>#Seco with milk -- in the country, often milked straight out of the
>>>cow into the seco glass.
>>
>>Perhaps it would go well with pig ears?
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> Speaking of boonieville, I was talking to the father in law a while back
> about his youth. They didn't have soy sauce or wasabi, so when they ate
> sashimi they would crush a few tongarashi into ocean water, and dip the
> sashimi in that (don't get too grossed out -- the ocean water around his
> island actually tastes good). It was a real step up to be able to dip
> sashimi in soy sauce (to this day he still prefers tongarashi over wasabi
> though, preferably with a squeeze of shiikwaasaa in there as well).
> 
> I plan to try that out next time I'm down Hatoma way.

Sounds like a fascinating place.

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