Comments on: Oh Great Lord Brita http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/ Website of Joshua McGee Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56722 Joshua (Site Owner) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:53:40 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56722 Oh, on the topic of high-quality ingredients: you, Amal, and I are all bergamot nuts, right? I just recently learned of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009VK7LM?ie=UTF8&tag=mcgeesorg-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0009VK7LM" rel="nofollow">an Italian marmalade made solely of Bergamot oranges and sugar</a>. Wow. Meh wants nao -- but I cannot find it in stock anywhere. Oh, on the topic of high-quality ingredients: you, Amal, and I are all bergamot nuts, right?  I just recently learned of an Italian marmalade made solely of Bergamot oranges and sugar.  Wow.  Meh wants nao — but I cannot find it in stock anywhere.

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56721 Joshua (Site Owner) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:47:39 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56721 Didn't both you and Amal partake of my (OK, yes, bizarre) rosemary liqueur? That period of experimentation taught me that, counterintuitively to me, sugar and herbs cannot mask poor-quality vodka. There's a Grand Marnier reserve of some sort in the wild right now -- <a href="http://www.wineandliquordepot.com/" rel="nofollow">W&LD</a> has it IIRC -- that builds on a 25-year-old cognac (or thereabouts). I was left wondering if the other ingredients were of a higher grade as well. Didn’t both you and Amal partake of my (OK, yes, bizarre) rosemary liqueur?  That period of experimentation taught me that, counterintuitively to me, sugar and herbs cannot mask poor-quality vodka.

There’s a Grand Marnier reserve of some sort in the wild right now — W&LD has it IIRC — that builds on a 25-year-old cognac (or thereabouts).  I was left wondering if the other ingredients were of a higher grade as well.

]]> By: Petra http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56720 Petra Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:41:04 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56720 The safety guy at work saw that Mythbusters episode and bought a dedicated vodka filter. He loves it. In other news, he's making his own mock Grand Marnier now, too. The safety guy at work saw that Mythbusters episode and bought a dedicated vodka filter.  He loves it.

In other news, he’s making his own mock Grand Marnier now, too.

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56707 Joshua (Site Owner) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:53:24 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56707 Oh, why be circumspect? Fairly certain that was for "ingesting dangerous amounts of toxic sludge" also. Oh, why be circumspect?  Fairly certain that was for “ingesting dangerous amounts of toxic sludge” also.

]]> By: Bob Mike http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56705 Bob Mike Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:40:41 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56705 The <I>Mythbusters</I> <a href="http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/episode_50_bullets_fired_up_vo.html" rel="nofollow">episode</I> where they run vodka through a filter was fascinating, because while the did say that you can't turn cheap vodka into top-shelf stuff that way, the vodka expert that they brought in was able to rank with perfect accuracy how many times each of ten shots had been passed through the filter. It's not the sort of thing that a layman would be likely to notice, but it is pretty effective. I don't know about the stuff that someone would get at a pet store, but plenty of my friends have had paramedics administer activated charcoal to them for ::<I>ahem</I>:: various reasons. The Mythbusters episode where they run vodka through a filter was fascinating, because while the did say that you can’t turn cheap vodka into top-shelf stuff that way, the vodka expert that they brought in was able to rank with perfect accuracy how many times each of ten shots had been passed through the filter. It’s not the sort of thing that a layman would be likely to notice, but it is pretty effective.

I don’t know about the stuff that someone would get at a pet store, but plenty of my friends have had paramedics administer activated charcoal to them for ::ahem:: various reasons.

]]> By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56703 Joshua (Site Owner) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:22:18 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56703 Neal Stephenson has a scene in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802143156?ie=UTF8&tag=mcgeesorg-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802143156" rel="nofollow"><i>Zodiac</i></a> in which the protagonist (an eco-kinda-terrorist) swallows water polluted by toxic discharge and goes to an aquarium supply store to buy activated charcoal so he can grind it up and eat it. I never did bother to look up whether this is absurd or not. Neal Stephenson has a scene in Zodiac in which the protagonist (an eco-kinda-terrorist) swallows water polluted by toxic discharge and goes to an aquarium supply store to buy activated charcoal so he can grind it up and eat it.

I never did bother to look up whether this is absurd or not.

]]> By: Amal http://mcgees.org/2009/06/19/oh-great-lord-brita/comment-page-1/#comment-56701 Amal Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:50:10 +0000 http://mcgees.org/?p=1538#comment-56701 The first time I tried Brita filtered water, I was impressed. It does a lovely job. The first time I tried Brita filtered water, I was impressed. It does a lovely job.

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