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mountain mad, any chance of a recipie?.............sounds fantastic!!! 
Well at least it beats my dirty hockey mates idea of making vodka drinks. Last year for a tour in Purley they invented, chilli vodka which was ok(ish), 4 cheese vodka which was pretty minging, and marmite vodka - absolutely disgusting, induced instant vom!
This year they are making "gut buster vodka", basically the "gutbuster" is an infamous meal from the Market Diner in Brighton, served between the hours of 9pm and 4am - basically a fried feast of sausage, eggs, bacon, mushrooms, hash browns, beans, tomatos, beef burger, toast, fried slice and a large mug of tea...............i think that's it  so i'm sure you can imagine it's going to be "interesting" 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Peppermint schnapps was this years tipple. And very nice it was too.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Dan wrote: |
Matteo, bombardino.................mmmmmmmm  "sampled" a few of those this year in Courmayeur & Sauze - is it an italian drink? |
Well, yes, sort of. No firm recipes, a couple of variants can be found here :
http://www.alpitalia.net/gastronomia.php?action=ricette&ric_id=16
(for those who can read Italian) some ingredients are:
coffee, VOV, wiskey or
Milk, VOV and brandy
As garnments use Whipped cream and/or cocoa powder...
The main component, I daresay, is VOV http://www.culturadelbere.it/sponsor/sil/sil-index.htm
which is a liquour composed of eggs (usually only the yoke part, even though my aunt's recipe calls for the whole, shell included) and iirc Marsala wine/liquour.
Warm VOV is also served, with whipped cream or not.
And in summer I like to drink it cold, out of the fridge.
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Just so long as it doesn't include that disgusting (sorry Matteo!) stuff called Fernet Branca, tastes like a cross between petrol and meths.... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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What we got was warmed brandy, advocaat, wipped cream with a dusting of chocolate powder. It doesn't sound so good, but it is fantastic out on the piste on a cold day...............in fact scrub that it was fantastic at any time of the day!! 
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Wed 12-05-04 15:22; edited 1 time in total
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PG, I like Fernet Branca! But prefer Branca Menta (needs to be cold).
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skanky, far too bitter for me, meant to be drunk straight too, as a "pick-me-up" (probably has the opposite effect in most cases!) Who knows what the ingredients are, dread to think.
Much prefer the likes of a Chartreuse Verte......
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Brr, my grandmother usesd to administer Frenet Branca to my mom and her brothers (when they were children) as a medicine for stomach problems...
I Will not report on the outcomes.
Anyway, PG and skanky , I can't stand the smell of it
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Not many people I've met like it (and that includes all the Italians). But then I like biscotti (sp?) too, so there's probably no help for me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Love biscotti - dunked in espresso!!!!
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| mountain mad wrote: |
| Love biscotti - dunked in espresso!!!! |
I eat it plain. 
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skanky, which biscotti do you like? Spelling is right, BTW.
Biscotti has become the generic term to indicate cookies, and I like quite a lot of types myself.
(from the French "Bis cuits"=cooked twice)
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You know it makes sense.
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Matteo, the dried bread shaped ones a bit like cold toast - of course, they may not actually be biscotti... 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Are they light? Does "Savoiardi" sound familiar?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Savoiardi are very good to be soaked with alcoholic drinks and then inbedded in puddings...
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Matteo - in the UK usually biscotti means the hard dry biscuits you get in italian coffee shops, or restaurants with your coffee. http://www.italatin.com/assorted.html - look like the ones that i call 'biscotti'.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ahh, now it's clear, I think those are a big version of the "Cantucci". Also used to be dipped into red wine, beleive it or not.
But then, in the mountains just few kilometers east from my village people used to break the fast with a hot coffe and red wine (barbera) drink, instead of coffe and milk.
This sentence to avoid being accused to stray afar from the topic-alcohol, tee hee.
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Matteo, nope. These are either breakfast or dipping things...not sure. My parents always called them biscotti, but thinking about it, I'm sure they're not. I was the only person in the hotel I ever saw eating them. They're savoury.
Cantucci I know and like, too.
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Matteo, beer used to be a breakfast tipple round here too.
At least according to the stories I like to read...
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skanky You are right, I called some colleagues in central Italy and the ones depicted in the picture have no specific name that they know of....
Mark Letho Beer in the morning coffe in place of milk? Bleah.
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Beer, milk.....not likely. Coffee needs to be very strong and very black to be worth drinking....especially the morning after the night before!!
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Matteo, I have never added beer to coffee or cornflakes.
But I bow to your superior knowledge
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Ahr Ahr!
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Jonpim, Sorry to be serious, but you've hit the nail on the head. I try to warn new clients - but to no avail! If all else fails drink masses of water. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You're all mad! Why go to all the effort of making alcohol taste boggin' ?!
it tastes lovely just as it is- why make yourselves suffer? I dont get it- your all mingers
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You know it makes sense.
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boggin, piggin, boufin, etc.
= not nice
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Prehaps there should have been a:
Occasional lapse and I thought I was nearly in control!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Welcome to snowHeads, SteveG Good plan - start yourself off in the bar
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thank you very much Ian, and your tab is.....
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........generally over limit
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've a hard enough controlling my skis and staying vertical without the added influence of lunchtime beers. Beer or even better a small liqueur + afternoon cake followed by shower, jacuzzi, dinner + more beers can have a positive effect after a day on the piste.
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Elizabeth, generally being over the limit could fall into a couple of these, would you like to be more specific?
For me. I find myself starting at the first and grandually ending at the last poll!
Of course not, it would be dangerous and irresponsible
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Rarely, and just the one
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A couple of glasses with lunch, maybe a vin chaud... (No harm)
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Occasional bad lapse - but I'm always in control (Dodgy Snow)
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Yes why not, ok I fall over a bit more but it hurts less (Ahh time to go, now the piste is empty)
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Nadenoodlee, Thanks for that link..... I'll keep it handy. The 'useful phrases" were interesting. Apparently in Glasgow
"Would you like to go out with me tonight? We could go to the cinema or the theatre."
is translated by something resembling
"Right doll, do you want to go to the flictures, or do you want to go see omelette at the tron?"
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that disgusting (sorry Matteo!) stuff called Fernet Branca
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but it's a wonderful stomach settler and not only for alcohol induced effects. And is a superb 'hair of the dog' being extremely strong stuff. PG from memory it's about 90% alcohol and 10% herbs and 'eye of newt' and 'wing of bat' stuff. Similar to Underborg.
Only to be chucked down in one in cases of dire emergency. But it works.
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SteveG, sorry, my reference was to Hopkinson's tab at the bar
As I stated earlier, I'm never over any limit.
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Yes Kuwait Ian you are correct, it's herb, I absolutely hate it, but have taken the occasional sip to settle the stomach, and I remember my mother recalling that her mother used to give it to them warm!
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