Originally Posted By: Micah

For the rest of you, Van Gogh was said to be in the depths of an Absinthe binge the night he cut his own ear off. But the Absinthe made today only has 10 parts per million of thujone (that's the stuff that gives you halucinations) in it... compared to the stuff they made back in his day that had more like 260 parts per million. So we may actually make it out of there with all our ears intact!


I brought a couple bottles back from Prague a few years ago. It took almost two years to finish them off. I didn’t care for it much (tasted like menthol flavored Listerine to me). I’d pour a shot for the more “daring” individuals at my parties. Whatever the heck is in it is for real. I’ve never had anything that would mess me up like it, but maybe some Uzzo I had in Turkey about twenty years ago.... Everyone else who tried it said the same thing the next time I’d see them.