Methylated Spirit

[miserableoldgit]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ATI4VG/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk?tag=hydfbook-21&ascsubtag=GB-SAGE-1354845524363-THFCC

 

Read the reviews!

[OVER THE HILL]

Superb reviews , I must get some.

[trousers]

Very good! I've ordered two crates

[miserableoldgit]

Very good! I've ordered two crates

Cases, surely??

[trousers]

I'm trying to disguise it as beer so the missus doesn't realise I've splashed out on a delicacy

[John Boy Saint]

My Missus baulks at most weird spirits that I bring home like a stray dog I have found on my way home, so my Parma Violet Surprise is safe in the cocktail cabinet.

Just got to learn not to drink it and enjoy a cigar at the same time.

[so22saint]

When I worked at Totton Con Club behind the bar one of the old lags (Bob) insisted that his favourite drink was "Meths & Lime" from his time stuck in the Middle East in the late 40s / early 50s.

 

bear in mind that he drank 6 pints at lunchtime...

[Colinjb]

I don't know how you guys can drink it neat. You must try it mixed with Brasso.

 

- Inspired!

[cambsaint]

Brilliant!

It used be law that it couldn't be sold on Sundays in Scotland. (No off-licences open).

Many years ago I had the misfortune to work where a large plastic barrel of blue meths was kept in the back outhouse, and it was decanted into customer's bottles for use in those spirit stoves that were popular before central heating and during post-war austerity.

The smell made me gag, I can't imagine how anybody could ever drink it.

Mind you fresh coriander leaf has exactly the same effect, and the ponsy-bullocks chefs all love the disguisting stuff!

[Clapham Saint]

Based on the strong recommendations of a number of reviewers on the Amazon site,

I recently took a bottle of 2011 Barrettine to a dinner party to which I and my

wife had been invited. Handing the bottle proudly to our hostess with the

obligatory box of Neuhaus chocolates, I was disappointed to see her somewhat

frosty reaction. Assuming this was a judgment on the small size of the bottle, I

assured her that Barrettine's had not yet acceded to the popular demands for a

full 75cl bottle and that the smaller volume of the bottle should be in no way

be seen as detracting from its overall quality. When I later heard the sound of

her crying behind the kitchen door, I assumed that this was the result of some

disappointment at the over-cooking of the salmon, but in a later email from my

hosts I have since been informed that a bottle of Barrettine's is not

universally appreciated at such occasions.

 

I mention this story simply to

help other readers avoid such a social 'faux pas' themselves, and in future I

will certainly test out my hosts' attitudes with some indirect questions about

Barrettine's at the point of invitation. Still, in the context of a wider milieu

of cultural mediocrity, I say 'hats off' to Barrettine's for a product that can

still excite such strong passions and debate.

 

 

 

I recently hosted a dinner party and I was utterly speachless when one of my

guests turned up with a bottle of this! The look on my face must have said it

all, but as I tried to find the words to describe how inappropriate this was, my

already drunk guest tried to comfort me by explaining that this was the largest

bottle available. The night just got worse from then on in as my guest proceded

to drink the offending item from my best wine glasses, vomit in to the pot

plants and urinate in his trousers! I had to console my weeping wife as her

tears fell from her face on to a now ruined Salmon Celebration Roast. I have

emailed the offending guest to warn him that I will be billing him for the urine

stains on the carpet, the smashed wine glasses and the now dead pot plants full

of vomit! I do not recommend this product to be taken to dinner parties under

any circumstances!!!

 

 

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