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I forgot, are we in 2004?

>I just heard about X for the first time
>haha DAE X is totally soy reddit meme fad, fellow 4channelers!
Why are flyovers like this?

>>12599361
Only when it's the fake neu-Absinthe. The real deal is out there, but it's incredibly difficult to find due to it being illegal.

>>12599361
Only the original stuff that gives you liver failure and makes you hallucinate.

>inb4 retards claiming that different alcoholic drinks don't produce different sensations and types of intoxication

>>12599410
Alcohol is alcohol retard

>>12599410
>"i got soooooo craaazy when i drink tequila haha xD"

>>12599361

it ain't "new" at all you cuck. next you'll discover be posting about this "new" thing called mead

>>12599430

>>12599410
It's more about the amount of alcohol in the beverage. Downing shots is going to feel different than drinking wine because of the rate of alcohol absorbtion.
>>12599361
Absinthe was a meme about a decade ago. It's good if you like licorice, but the effects were overblown during prohibition, even when it had wormwood in it. I've had it with wormwood and it's not that exciting.

>>12599361
Is this even illegal anymore?

>>12599400
>incredibly difficult to find
There‘s literally a shitton of good absinth around.
>>12599407
Absinth doesn‘t make you hallucinate.

>>12599739
>Absinth doesn‘t make you hallucinate.

but mezcal does. it's like mescaline

>>12599361
>new
>>12599370
This, goth fags were talking this up when I was in high school a decade ago.

>>12599361
>new
Peak absinth hype was 200 years ago when it was outlawed and then secondary hype was 10 years ago when it was decriminalized.

>>12599400
There was never "real deal" absinth, it's just strong alcohol.
Anything beyond drunkenness was caused by bathtub distillers using heavy metals and other poisons to dye inferior product.

>>12599721
>during prohibition
It was a meme drink during the 1800’s and was banned in the US a decade before prohibition. It has always had a crazy reputation due to writers/artists/poets claiming it’s what gave them their inspiration (among the cocaine, opium and every other drug they were taking).
I’ve had the “real deal” wormwood kind and it was just licorice booze.

>>12599361

I've been drinking it for well over a decade now but it's mainly because I REALLY like anise. Seriously I'd eat anises out of an anus I like it that much. Good stuff.

>>12599400
The real deal isnt illegal, faggot. Very little thujone ever made it into the final product since it has a different vaporization temperature than alcohol, and spectrographic analysis of vintage absinthes confirm this. Low IQ noscience plebs like yourself are just too fucking stupid to realize this elementary fact.

>>12599410
Tequila makes me physically ill for some reason but I think thats something beside the alcohol

>>12599896
so why do you choose it over other anisettes? certainly not the price rag

>>12599397
>butthurt plebbit coastie
lol

>Absinth
>new

Wormwood as a flavor was reintroduced a decade ago, it is a flavor, not actual wormwood extract.
Wormwood is a toxic plant, it's main toxin is thujone.
Thujone will kill you before it will make you hallucinate, it was previously thought to bind in your brain the same way as THC, but this is no longer the case.

Have fun, drink deep, don't die.

>>12599361

you want wormwood flavor? I'm your Huckleberry!

>>12600462
Actually not that bad. Breathing is interesting afterwards though.

>>12599370
>2004?
I was going to say 2003.

*TSA blocks your path*
Does this product contain more than 1% wormwood?
*sips pastis*

>>12599410
anybody I've ever met who claimed they couldn't drink a specific type of alcohol cuz it got them soooooooooo wasted one time and angry and whatever the fuck else was a god damn retard with no sense of self control or idea what their limit was.

my buddy brought back something from eastern europe called "piolunoka" or some shit a decade or so ago and it's the closest thing to the 'eurotrip' absinthe you can get
it's basically a tincture, just mashed up wormwood in vodka

>>12599650
The fuck is mead? Sounds like a gruel of some sort.

>>12599400
Bull fucking shit it is. Maybe in muttland, but here in europe it is dead easy to find in any well-stocked liquor store. Hell, some countries never stopped producing absinthe.

>>12599773
retard
bet you've never done mescaline

>>12599370
The faggits in Murder by Numbers were so edgy drinking absinthe, and that movie came out in 2002.

>>12600365
don't eat the worm

>>12600377
It's kind of important for some cocktails.

i still have a bottle of absinthe I picked up in Hungary. For some reason I have been waiting really long for the right reason to open it... I should probably crack it soon and experience what its all about.

>>12601009
Honey wine. It’s tasty stuff.

>>12601440

Share with us your experience when you do

>>12599407
>the original stuff... makes you hallucinate.
No, stop repeating long since debunked bullshit.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jf703568f
>Thirteen samples of authentic absinthe dating from the preban era (i.e., prior to 1915) were analyzed for parameters that were hypothesized as contributing to the toxicity of the spirit, including naturally occurring herbal essences (thujone, pinocamphone, fenchone), methanol, higher alcohols, copper, and antimony. The total thujone content of preban absinthe was found to range between 0.5 and 48.3 mg/L, with an average concentration of 25.4 ± 20.3 mg/L and a median concentration of 33.3 mg/L. The authors conclude that the thujone concentration of preban absinthe was generally overestimated in the past. The analysis of postban (1915–1988) and modern commercial absinthes (2003–2006) showed that the encompassed thujone ranges of all absinthes are quite similar, disproving the supposition that a fundamental difference exists between preban and modern absinthes manufactured according to historical recipes. Analyses of pinocamphone, fenchone, base spirits, copper, and antimony were inconspicuous. All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome “absinthism”.

>>12599361
see >>12599370
Absinthe has been a meme drink since the 19th fucking century

The belief that absinthe induces hallucinogenic effects is at least partly rooted in the fact that following some ten years of experiments with wormwood oil in the 19th century, the French psychiatrist Valentin Magnan studied 250 cases of alcoholism, and claimed that those who drank absinthe were worse off than those drinking ordinary alcohol, having experienced rapid-onset hallucinations.[81] Such accounts by opponents of absinthe (like Magnan) were cheerfully embraced by famous absinthe drinkers, many of whom were bohemian artists or writers.[82]

>Two famous artists who helped popularise the notion that absinthe had powerful psychoactive properties were Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh. In one of the best-known written accounts of absinthe drinking, an inebriated Oscar Wilde described a phantom sensation of having tulips brush against his legs after leaving a bar at closing time.[83]

>Notions of absinthe's alleged hallucinogenic properties were again fuelled in the 1970s, when a scientific paper suggested that thujone's structural similarity to THC, the active chemical in cannabis, presented the possibility of THC receptor affinity.[84][85] This theory was conclusively disproven in 1999.[86]

>>12601131
>Murder by Numbers
Holy shit, talk about a movie I'd practically forgotten about but instantly brings me back. I was around the same age as the characters and had just started reading Nietzsche and all that shit and even I thought it was kind of cringe.

>>12600462
based malört poster

>>12599400
Only illegal in your country, fag

>>12600579
>>12599370
You mean 1904

>>12600462
Chicago and everything within a 1000 mile radius should be range banned from posting on /ck/, desu.

>>12602332
Eh, 1000 miles might have been a little harsh. Here's a more accurate map.

>>12599361
who tf isnt putting siracha on their takeout? i get gentiles ruin shit but its not like the recipe has changed, its easily a top tier condiment. sriacha aioli is great for fusion style sandwiches as well, and im sure there are more creative uses for it. imagine being this dense...

absinth on the other hand, especially if you follow the ole 1800s ass way of preparing it, is fucking prententious as shit. that being said ive never tried it and the kid in me wants to think that shit tastes as delicious as it looks. knowing how fuckin old it is its probably mostly bitter and spiced to all fuck though

>>12602622
It has a very strong anise flavor. I had some very nice absinthe that I sampled in a specialty liquor store in the Venetian in Las Vegas. They did the whole pour over sugar thing, and it wasn't bitter and overspiced. It was very different from what I'm used to drinking though, and it's not something that I would drink regularly.

>>12602622
It tastes like liquorice and makes you dizzy an hour after consumption.

>>12599361
you put absinthe on tacos???

>>12602674
wtf you put sriracha on tacos? save that shit for breakfast or asian foods bruh... havent you heard of valentina? best mexican food hot sauce

>>12599410
i once drank cognac a bit too much and was drunk for several hours after it. i was able to behave myself but felt like shit.

>>12601014
Thuione content castrated to regulatory levels in the EU.

>>12599867
Absinthe wasn’t a meme drink.
Absinthe was originally distributed to Napoleon’s troops as a treatment and preventative for malaria, which was prevalent in certain swampy areas.

Absinthe contains Wormwood, which is known to kill parasites.
Absinthe also contains a high alcohol percentage, which works as a muscle relaxant, which is helpfull for fighting muscle cramping, that can be caused by sicknesses like malaria.
The high alcohol content would also likely help sterilize water, to prevent other sicknesses such as typhoid.
Currently, malaria strains have become resistant to quinine, and treatments have been developed and used based on Wormwood.

>>12602352
>Montana
>Wyoming
>Dakotas
>fucking Utah
what are you even doing you complete gibbering retard?

>Absinth
>new
huh?

>>12604085
The pic literally says, "for development purposes only". If I could have greened out all of Texas and Florida I would have.

>>12601901
>methanol

wat

>>12604582
BRAP

>>12599361
you're about 10 years late newfag