Is there a traditional New Orleans liquor?

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Chauncey wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:55 am
LWTCS wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:26 am Dumpster Juice recipe?
Crushed up cups 1cl
Cigarette butts 1cl
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Chauncey wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:55 am
LWTCS wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:26 am Dumpster Juice recipe?
Crushed up cups 1cl
Cigarette butts 1cl
Served in a handgrenade….
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A hand grenade cup and a pair of Mardi gras beads on and it ain't Mardi gras in most hoods makes you a mark. It's the official uniform of ROLL ME I AINT FROM HERE. them youngsters out there brazen as fuck. That's why I bring my cuz smith and his buddy wesson everywhere
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Went to brunch with my wife and her uncle today for his 83rd birthday. Her uncle after retirement went to work for grey lines who did tours in nola, he stopped doing the tour after Hurricane Katrina. The one he did was a walking cocktail tour. Pics below of a book he wrote which is basically the tour he did, a history of what cocktails that were started in nola.

A short movie about Sazerac where Uncle Joe has a couple tibits in it.

https://imbibemagazine.com/the-sazerac/
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Lol weird I have or had a copy of that around here.
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Chauncey wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 2:40 am... That's why I bring my cuz smith and his buddy wesson everywhere …
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still_stirrin wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:49 am
Chauncey wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 2:40 am... That's why I bring my cuz smith and his buddy wesson everywhere …
Personally, I like “the ponies”. That’s why my Colts are my best friends. And “the snakes” are especially well respected. However, my CCW is a Colt New Agent, a robust 1911 in 9mm with a Crimson Trace laser.
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Back on topic Chauncey, do they still have the drive-in daiquiri stores there. Back in the ‘80s when I lived there, they were springing up all around town. I remember fondly grabbing a big “Highway 190” for the drive back to Slidell from Metairie. Oh, to be young once again.
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I'm from north Louisiana, we still have them up here. They are not illegal until you put the straw into the cup.
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Yea we got them here still.
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still_stirrin wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2023 3:54 pm do they still have the drive-in daiquiri stores there.
:shock: :shock: Drive in daiquiri's ??? Damn I missed out there.
First Daiquiri I ever tasted was a Mango Daiquiri in a strange little Mexican Restaurant in Lansing, Michigan....it was in a huge glass and after two of those and a huge Mexican Meal I needed a short nap.
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Salty,,,what were you doing in Lansing, MI of all places to visit in the US?
Not that parts of Michigan aren't very beautiful......
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Just passing through and visiting people Larry. I tend to steer clear of the major tourist destinations when I travel. Get to see the real country and meet the real people that way.........saw and did things most tourists will never see or do.
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Saltbush Bill wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:12 pm Just passing through and visiting people Larry. I tend to steer clear of the major tourist destinations when I travel. Get to see the real country and meet the real people that way.........saw and did things most tourists will never see or do.
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Not sure, but I do know I’m a sucker for a good sazerac.
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Chauncey wrote: Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:37 pm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafia
So, what you're saying Chancey, is this noobie, cranking out sugar washes down here on the bayou, is carrying on a Louisiana tradition? :D

I've lived within 50 miles of New Orleans my whole life, spent my teen years in the early 80s in the French Quarter every weekend. I'm kinda like Steve, I don't remember a specific liquor, but just LOTS of it.

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Them daiquiri places have made it to small town Texas now. No, just…. No.
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