kerouac

as = has

Phread

My Frenchman takes me out for drinks often. Like an American, or any other human, what he orders depends on his mood, the weather and the bar. At a trendy bar, he'll have a cocktail, something like the Green Hornet at Candelaria. A corner café, it will often be a beer (esp summer) or a Monoco (esp after skiing), or a flute of champagne. Wine he generally prefers with a meal and kirs are very unfashionable with the boys right now. When we go to pre-match cocktails at the rugby stadium (can't think if a more manly crowd) the host generally serves champagne.

Phread

ps... in my circle, instead of an apéro, they now invite you to "prendre un pot".

Pvoyageuse

"they now invite you to "prendre un pot".

Not very new. They've be saying it for the last 50 years.

ira

Hi Thomo,

>Thanks Ira, I'm not going on a date! just need the info for a short story. <

In which case, you cannot go wrong by having both of them order a Kir. If it's a heavy date, she can have a Kir Royale.
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>Almost no French man in Paris would order a glass of wine.<

Dang. All them guys pretending to be French certainly fooled me.
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>Pastis ... Tastes like a Campari<

<b>?</b>

ira

Hi Jus,

>...but now apparently it is offered with other liquers?<

Another example of the general lessening of standards.

It is similar to the US fad for calling anything in a cone-shaped glass a Martini, even if it doesn't have any Gin or Vermouth in it.

Dr_DoGood

<b>ira</b> you missed out a word when quoting cigalechanta: <i>Suze</i>. That's what, to her mind, "tastes like a Campari."

Deliberately disingenuous? You cad, you!

Dr D.

basingstoke2

Since it for a story, why go coventional. Make it interesting, have him seek out Slivovitz.

Jay_G

Or take it even further. Maybe he could ask for one of these;

http://www.sourtoecocktailclub.com/sourtoe.html

cigalechanta

Ira, SUZE is a French apero, yellow in color and gentian based like CAMPARI.

maitaitom

"Make it interesting, have him seek out Slivovitz."

If he does that basingstoke, I'll buy the book to see if his head explodes before dinner.

This definitely sounds like a topic I will have to do extensive research on during our September/October trip!

basingstoke2

maitai gets it.

maitaitom

a man never forgets his first one...shot of Slivovitz, that is.

basingstoke2

maitai and others - MARK your calendars - BUY your tickets - MAKE your reservation - FOR THE *Annual Slivovitz Festival* held this year, September 8th, at the Northeastern Hotel, Cloquet, Minnesota. Sponsored by the US Slivovits Drinkers Association (bet you didn't know there was one) which recently published a warning from the Serbian Monistry of Agriculture that half of all Serbian Slivovitz sold is fake - not Slivovits at all.

basingstoke2

Make that a MInistry