Fruity Drink!

[roseembolism]

 For lack of anything else, and out of inspiration, I'm going to start posting recipes.  Tonight: how to appease the fierce  racerxmachinawith an improvised drink.  

So the racerexmachina demands a martini, and then abruptly changes her mind and "requests" a fruity drink.  Normally, this is code for a voda-lingonberrry spritzer, but horrors, you have no seltzer water!  What to do?  WHAT DO YOU DO!?

You come up with this version of the highball, which I call, modestly,

The Roseembolism:

You need the following:

Vodka that RxM says is indistinguishable from Skyy, even though it costs half as much
Lingonberry syrup
Diet Coke
a highball glass
ice

Toss the ice into the highball glass
Pour 1.5 jiggers of cheap vodka you want to get rid of as fast as possible  into the glass
Splash lingonberry syrup  to taste into the glass
 fill with diet coke

Serve on a silver platter, or barring that, plop it on the mouse pad, and run.

Go back to the kitchen and make your own.

Enjoy.


 

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Vodka that RxM says is indistinguishable from Skyy, even though it costs half as much

Sadly, ohmygoditburns.com is gone, but it used to document the process of turning cheap-ass vodka into something enjoyable by passing it through a Brita filter three times.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

I think this vodka's been passed through a Ukranian's bladder at least once....

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Yes! Even though that site is gone, the legend has passed into internet lore. It's easy enough to find sites where brave individuals have sacrificed their kidneys to replicate the experiment, with varying results. The jury seems to be out on how effective filtration is, but it seems to make bad vodkas at least palatable to the Skyy level, if not to the point of being really good stuff.

It's probably not a substitute for a good vodka, but if one already has a Brita filter, it's worth a try. Now, if someone can test to see if it will get rid of the icky flavoring in "flavored" vodkas...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for the Wayback Machine.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Thank you wayback machine. Still, I owe it to myself to get some decent vodka for the next convention to celebrate the upcoming LARP's success.

I have to admit I still feel it's a bit inappropriate to take good vodka to a con, given that at my first Baycon no less a personage than Dean Ing taught me the proper way to drink bad vodka...

[devonapple.livejournal.com]

They successfully tested this on MythBusters. The process "works," but they concluded that the "good stuff" is always going to taste better than sextuple-filtered cheap stuff.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised in the least. One can filter out gross impurities, but the quality of the basic ingrediants has to play an important role.

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