Lounge lizard experiment: Advanced Edition
If you remember a few weeks ago the previous experiment was described here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018347511
I didn't get around to doing anything culinary with my drunken dried cherries and sort of forgot about them for a while. I tried one of them and found it mostly flavorless now. The cherries have given up their flavor and I have what is essentially cherry extract. However, it's damn good cherry extract. Now what do people think about when they smell alcohol and cherries? Cough syrup. So what you do is you take an old cough syrup bottle, wash it (preferably), then fill it with this wonderful elixir. Imagine the possibilities. The next time nanna comes over you just cough a couple of times and she'll never be the wiser. It would make a great travel flask (albeit probably not TSA approved).
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sheesh! 
I'm enjoying Jack Daniels single barrel right now...2 cubes a splash of club soda...anything else is sacrilege! 
Until, on my second or third day in the UK I ordered some, in what would become my watering hole of choice for the next few years.
The publican shook his head and said, well, if you wish Yank, but here we drink whisky (no e). The man sort of adopted me, and over the next few years took me on a magical mystery tour of single malts. Highlands, lowlands, speysides, Irish, and a few other things. Oh, meads too. I was never the same again.
Anyway, I still keep JD around, but I pretty much just serve it to guests. And put it in eggnog. Having said that, I didn't have any straight bourbon around when the cherries string happened, so I used JD instead. Just the black label slop, no single barrel in the house. By the time I remembered the cherries had been soaking for days, I poured what was left off into a spare old fashioned glass.
As it turns out, that cherry flavored JD was all that stood between me going to sleep at 9:00, and me getting lucky that night. And so I did what needed to be done.
Yes, it was an appalling expenditure of fine whiskey, but . . . it served its purpose. (I'm so ashamed . . . . 
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Heh. No I'm not. But that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Being shameless myself, I will accept either version of your story! 
I was drinking Glenlivet Nadurra last night... I drank nothing but scotch, or the occasional martini, for years, then bourbons.... Today I drink mainly small batch bourbons or single malt scotchs. I really like Scapa 16 year single malt.
And an excellent cough syrup too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
Doesn't make any sense that a plant can be illegal.
Sadly (or maybe fortunately) me and (always legally prescribed) opiates don't play well together. Whatever buzz I get is overwhelmingly defeated by itchy skin, nausea, fuzzy-mindedness, and constipation.
So usually I keep coughing or hurting until it stops.
