Thursdays #173 - better late than never

[RedHedd]

Seeing NASA lost all that stuff i was going to suggest the "Drunken Space Monkey"..Maybe later?

I HAD to Google it - who said Thursdays wasn't a place to get motivated

DRUNKEN SPACE MONKEY:
1 mug hot water,
2 heaping scoops Tang, (but of course! )
2 oz. vodka,
2 oz. Zwack Unicum Hungarian bitters

and stir.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Zwack Unicum Hungarian bitters? What in the world....??....?? Oops, forgot, this was an "out of this world" drink.

If I can put ice cubes in it and drink it cold instead of warm, I think I'll try one. It would be nice to be out of this world right now....in a different....more peacefull....less stressful....world....mmm...that sounds like a place I want to be. Maybe two or three or maybe 8 of these Drunken Space Monkeys will get me there.

Uummm.....speaking of drunken space monkeys, has anyone seen Mario?

[RedHedd]

Another elixir beloved by a royal has only recently become widely available in the U.S.: Unicum – the name given it by Emperor Joseph II for its singular flavor. Developed as a digestif by his physician, Dr. Zwack, this third, 18th century creation was commercially available by the 1850s; unlike Drambuie and Benedictine, it wasn’t until the 20th century that politics made life difficult for Unicum.

In fact, the Zwack family did quite well making and selling Unicum and other liqueurs until World War II, when Allied bombs destroyed their factory in Budapest. Just as they began to rebuild, the new Communist government confiscated both the family home and the factory; brothers Janos and Bela eventually emigrated to the U.S., sneaking their secret recipe out with them in a breast-pocket.

When the Hungarian Communist government tried to continue making Unicum – without the recipe or know-how – Janos saw the Zwack family name being destroyed. He eventually won an international lawsuit against the Hungarian government for their trademark, but it wasn’t until the next generation that the Zwack family would return to making Unicum.

Peter Zwack cut his teeth in the American liquor industry until political changes in Hungary opened the door for his return. In 1989 he was the first Hungarian to buy back the family business and reintroduced Hungary to its national drink. Since then it has slowly trickled into other countries, doing especially well in countries like Germany and Italy where they already have a tradition of bitter digestifs.

That’s because Unicum is, particularly for Americans, an acquired taste. Its bittersweet character is too complex to be a frat-boy shot drink like its German cousin Jaegermeister. With such a rich flavor it also isn’t ideal for today’s fruity, vodka-based cocktails. But a combination of maceration, distillation, and oak-aging gives it a rounded herbal-licorice edge with just enough sweetness to wrap up a meal. It’s traditionally served in balloon-shaped glasses (which match well with the bottle, shaped as it is like an old-school anarchist bomb); it also goes well on the rocks for an aperitif. Hungarians today still swear by its recuperative powers: I once visited Budapest in a bleak December and promptly caught a cold, but locals plied me with enough Unicum to get me up on my feet for some vigorous Hungarian folk-dancing, and I awoke the next morning with a clear head and not a sniffle in sight.



Note the cross on the bottle! This stuff sounds DANGEROUS!

[davidpizzica]

How about a double drunk space monkey? I just saw Mario swinging from the rafters and he had his space helmet on!

[catland]

Well, in that case I'm just going to have to lift up a glass of Unicum and toast Mario and all other space monkeys.

... and speaking of space, a moment of silence for the iminent de-planeting of Pluto. What is Goofy going to do now?

[davidpizzica]

Well, in that case I'm just going to have to lift up a glass of Unicum and toast Mario and all other space monkeys.

... and speaking of space, a moment of silence for the iminent de-planeting of Pluto. What is Goofy going to do now?

Why do we need three more planets? Isn't nine enough?

[RedHedd]

I guess you could say Mario's Zwacked! I'll take a Zwack-free Drunk Space Monkey for the ride home,

[Lady's Human]

I'll take one of those drunken space monkeys! (I need one, I'm still stuck in OK!)

Speaking of monkeyboys,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bartend...Gargle_Blaster

How about one o' them in that there seement mixer?