rewch
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jenks said:on from the czech rum (which i would heartily recommend - best drunk in a shack in moravia) is some stuff i drunk with a gang of people who lived right on the czech/polish border - they had their own language - ponashimu which was a real hybrid of various linguistic remnants - anyway they drank this stuff called lih - they put equal measures of water, lih and sugar in a saucepan and gently heated so that it was warm - it was all highly ritualised and had to be downed in one (as all these things usually do) - the problem came after 4 of these as the floor moved away from beneath my feet. when i asked for a translation of lih i was told spirit - what spirit i replied - just spirit - i wonder if what i had been drinking was white spirit's wicked cousin?!?
sounds like ethanol to me... toxic unless diluted
Pearsall said:I had some once and it went down easily enough (for being about the same consistency as rubbing alcohol) but for about a half hour after I stopped drinking it my mouth tasted like a hospital. Horrible stuff.
reminds me of a friend of mine who was given eau de cologne by some russian friends (they drank it too)
& said that not only did it make him very sick but his mouth & digestive system smelt like the proverbial french brothel... the eau de cologne wasn't very strong in alcoholic terms though