Does Absinthe Really Make You Hallucinate, The Wine Lover's Meltdown, Inventing Bloody Mary & More

[@TheRealSpencerMarks]

I don’t know if it causes hallucinations, but I’ve always heard that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder! 😳

[@cecidrums2194]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chrisskarsbo]

Did you hear that from Mike Tyson perchance? 😂

[@cdcaterham]

my kind of joke 😂

[@TheRealSpencerMarks]

@@chrisskarsboWhy yes … how did you know that?!? 😂

[@cmoney209]

I like what you did there

[@PaulaMitchell-xg7mp]

The French were right about the climate being a big part of wine production. What they didn't account for are the wineries with that same climate. Burgundy France and Oregon USA are roughly at the same latitude, and the Willamette valley gets the same weather. That's one of the reasons that Oregon wine is becoming so well known. The Pinot Noir is especially highly recommended.

[@skaterrrdie]

I drank a lot of absinthe one night in my early 20s. No exaggeration when I say my kidneys and liver hurt for 72 hrs

[@joppadoni]

Bloody Weakling.. 🤣 I jest of course, in my 20s, although 'a lot' is not an IS unit i would have been well F'ed as well, being nearly 49 now.. Lol.. Glad you're still with us! Assuming you aren't 26 🤣I've only drank it once, i did not drink a lot of it. But i have drank so much whisky i really should not be here 😓😓😓 Do not drink Folks..!

[@skaterrrdie]

@@joppadoni Im 30. Quit drinking when I turned 25 after about 13 yrs of alcoholism. The time I drank the absinthe I was probably 21 or 22 at the time. Never again haha. I still remember the cup we used literally smelled like absinthe 3 months later even after washing it no BS!! Lol

[@joppadoni]

@@skaterrrdie Lol 3 Months! I'm glad you quit matey! Good on you I know how difficult is ❤

[@RealLoki]

Wow no shit

[@mkv2718]

please don’t tell me you drank it straight

[@nharber9837]

I don’t care for the licorice flavor, but I did enjoy it as a way to lower my inhibitions before an all night painting session. I get what Toulouse-Lautrec was on about. You maintain the clarity needed to paint, but loosen up a lot. Not something I’d go out of my way for though. It was about equal to me with a glass of wine or a good craft beer.

[@robertwilliamson922]

What I remember from chasing the green fairy, with a true, highly rated absinthe is……the strange sensation of being totally lucid and sober….while at the same time being drunk. I never had this effect with any other alcohol drink. Only with a high quality absinthe. Each ounce mixed with slowly dripping cold water over an ice cube to produce the lovely louche. The truth is…..real absinthe does indeed have a different effect.

[@scriptmonkeys71]

I drank some absinthe, took MDMA, and a shroom all in one night. Nothing happened! Unless staying up for 36 hours and writing a screenplay about serial killers is something.

[@Mickcotton]

😂😂✅Exactly 😂😊

[@justblack333]

That’s…fucking hilarious!

[@nathanhayes2]

That's a good time. I suggest keeping it a unique journey, though lol

[@fritz1990]

You have some serious tolerance against chemicals.

[@luciferbeelzebubmoloch8724]

Talk to Frank 😂

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

I brought a bottle of high wormwood absinthe back with me from Germany many years ago. It was an experience and I wouldn't mind another bottle.

[@FayAlexGG]

Perfectly vague

[@silvenshadow]

If it's high wormwood it's probably junk. Lol.

[@jeffdroog]

"Was an experience" meaning,It got them ad wasted as literally ANY othe alcohol would...F off lol

[@desperadox7565]

If you could buy it in Germany, it was already highly regulated. I drank Absinthe in Portugal in the 80s (only the "weaker" kind with 63%😎) and I could never get the same stuff in Germany. They don't allow high Wormwood (Wermutwurzel) content, not because of some supposed hallucinogenic effect, just because it's deemed too harmful for your body.

[@silvenshadow]

As an absinthe lover. I think the hallucinations are due to having a tasty drink that goes down like juice that basically contains a quadruple shot of 151. Have a night of five or six of these and you will probably experience some severe side effects.

[@MPHHarzy]

When The Green Fairy & The White Rabbit meet Your Mind Is Not Your Own

[@francookie9353]

... but you're still investing in BTC, right? 🟠

[@SeauxNOLALady]

As a New Orleans girl, I have had absinthe in various cocktails and concoctions since my teenage years. It definitely has a unique flavor and it’s a somewhat acquired taste… The flaming sugar cube preparation does give it a much more mellow caramel taste that cuts the strong licorice flavor

[@windhelmguard5295]

one way to deal with that flavour that my brother found out about and taught me is to inhale deeply, down the absinthe, hold your breath for a few seconds and then exhale slowly through your mouth. really makes you feel like you did not just put pure evil in your mouth.

[@Kamamura2]

Simon, living allegedly in Czech, is in unique position to "research" the production of local distiller Mr. Žufánek from Moravia - especially his St. Antoine, L'Anciene, and Dubied are worth trying, although the prices have grown to insane values, because the guy has become a sort of local "van Vinkle" of absinthe. Otherwise, the graphic material could be better prepared - especially the artificially colored glass of something horrible could be replaced with a photo of genuine absinthe, which is never "toxic green", but more of a color of tree leaves (French even have the term "feuille morte", dead leaves, because absinthe in bottle gradually turns from green to yellow as the chlorophyl decays).

[@ChopStickSoSushi]

36:30 this level of scrutiny when setting up an experiment should be the bare minimum in scientific research, no more opinions and conjectures or bias :)

[@billmullins6833]

When I was stationed in Japan in the Air Force in the early 80's we were told in no uncertain terms that if we drank absInth and got picked for a pee test the next day we WOULD be in deep s**t! The guys called it "absense". Maybe Asian absinth is different from the European kind. But there was something in it that made you show positive for opiods!

[@sotastatesoulja]

"There was something in it to show you positive for opiods" I think that's called opium my guy 😂 and the Asians are very well known for a long time about poppy production

[@FayAlexGG]

That's what made Dorothy almost fall asleep while she was already in a dream

[@jeffdroog]

That's funny,because according to this video,unless you were drinking the worst of the worst mixed absinthe ever attained,this would ALL be false.Good job! You're spreading misinformation lol

[@desperadox7565]

Positive for Opioids? 🤣 These cheeky Asians.👍🤣🤣👍

[@jeffdroog]

@billmullins6833 the literally lied to you lol Good job!

[@raymondmartin6737]

My Mother was from Switzerland, and she said the farmers there went nuts drinking Absinthe. I liked the green Japanese Midori Melon Liquor over 50 years ago, which used to advertise on the sign at Times Square in Manhattan. 😮

[@hedaron3787]

Wait, let me get some and then come back to this

[@Maxtyur]

Are you still alive ?😂

[@hedaron3787]

@@Maxtyur I've seen things... 😲

[@Maxtyur]

@@hedaron3787 LOL 😆

[@owenlong4176]

Before getting married to my Catholic wife I had to take classes about the church. After communion the plates and cups that had carried the bread and wine are rinsed with holy water and poured into a special sink that drains directly into the earth. This returns Christ's body to the earth..... hence every Sunday the priest is pouring Jesus for Jesus 😭. My wife hates me

[@VeracityLH]

That is cool!

[@_MissLoLo]

Makes me think of Moulin Rouge

[@MrSpooner1985]

There was a family friend of ours that on occasion, decades ago, would bring absinthe from other countries back home from work trips and give us a bottle ; i have no idea how high the wormwood concentration was but after several shots, we’d all get a greenout (your vision goes green like looking through ski goggles if you’ve never had it) which is usually the first step in hallucinations, sometimes we’d get tracers during the greenout, but i never saw inanimate objects move, talk, grow or shrink like true hallucinations cause.

[@corkbulb2895]

Greenout! That's pretty funny! Same thing happens if you take too high of a dose of SSRIs (typical antidepressants) and I hate it! It's a terrible feeling. Happened to me on Celexa my dose was raised to 20mg, which is a typical maintenance dose. I am apparently extremely sensitive to SSRIs. They call it "seratonin syndrome". If you take enough adderall, everything becomes orange. Like you are looking through orange tinted glasses. Funny how the typical color of adderall is orange as well. Can't imagine that is related but everything gets more colorful and bright anyway.

[@desperadox7565]

That's total BS.🤣

[@MrSpooner1985]

@@corkbulb2895 ive never had Adderall or Celexa before but ive heard of Serotonin Syndrome, usually in regard to mixing substances (like Ecstasy and SSRIs) or taking too much of an antidepressant; its effects sounded creepy and awful when i was reading up on it. Everything going orange would be different; i wonder what causes these color changes in vision. Being colorblind, the color of green ive seen may not be green at all and could be yellow or off orange in reality, 🤷‍♂️. The greenout does make driving out of the question for many hours; i imagine the same is true for an orange out. I hope Celexa is helping you though and itsnt strictly vision issue and possible Serotonin . Interesting story on other substances, thanks for sharing.

[@corkbulb2895]

@@MrSpooner1985 I haven't taken Celexa in 12 years. And no, I didn't mix it with anything it just happened. It's not just the green vision, you feel terrible. Used to make me black out too. Stuff is NASTY! I take Remeron (mirtazapine) now and I don't get any side effects whatsoever. That's because it is not an SSRI and works by binding directly to serotonin receptors

[@ericarechiga9752]

​@@desperadox7565 Yup, it's basically... 'I drank a waaay higher proof than I'm used to'

[@David_K_Booth]

Marie Corelli (referred to in the introduction) has a statue of the Angel of the Resurrection marking her grave. The angel is making a gesture that British viewers might find surprising.

[@raymondmartin6737]

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. 😊

[@pioneercynthia1]

😂

[@raymondmartin6737]

@@pioneercynthia1 Thanks 😊

[@cecidrums2194]

😂😂

[@raymondmartin6737]

@@cecidrums2194 Thanks 😊

[@carmenschubert5001]

After 4 shots: Absess makes the fart go honda

[@pioneercynthia1]

I have a very large planting of wormwood in my flower bed for the sole purpose of someday making absinthe.

[@Rr0gu3_5uture]

If you make it into a tea, it's meant to work pretty well to relieve upset stomachs and period pain.

[@bumblebee623]

Well that's kinda boring

[@edenrose1224]

It's good for worms too!

[@mkv2718]

well you’ll need more than just wormwood, specifically anise and fennel, which are both way more prevalent in absinthe than wormwood. honestly, just pick up some absinthe from the store. wormwood wont make you high, it just tastes bitter. pick up some Malort if you want a pure wormwood spirit…. it’s probably one of the worst tasting things you’ll ever consume.😅

[@dnkgy]

​@Rr0gu3_5uture the tea also tastes like astringent rancid dog shit and I would rather have any affliction it is meant to treat than ever drink another drop of the stuff.

[@glenmclendon9209]

When I drop my can of beer , I flip the tab several times before it's opened it works everytime . I always point it at someone to make sure .

[@Etymon-jt3zw]

If it happens again when your beer soda gets shaken up don't tap it. Roll it gently just a few times that usually does the trick. It could definitely be because the time it takes to roll the can gives it a little time to settle down.

[@zitrandy]

Whatever it may be, I'd enjoy having some Absinthe, with you! Thanks for posting.

[@Kyleplier]

Green Hour? I’d say someone was just… green with envy! I’ll see myself out now…… 🤣😅

[@Mickcotton]

I have some. It doesn’t do shit 💩 I guess I don’t drink enough of it 😂😂🚽

[@nathanramstorf1033]

Sour dough flavor can be very different depending on the local water used. Some I've read will only use rain water. Shrug

[@RareInTheHistory]

The wild yeasts in the area also affect the flavors. It's why certain regions have a named sourdough style and why even if you buy the starter from there it will gradually change in flavor the longer you feed the starter in the new area.

[@eagle1db]

A relative of mine who is a chemist is a big reason why it's not illegal anymore.

[@drewsmith9459]

and?

[@ValliW]

Why are the effects of drugs way overhyped? They do the same thing with pot and shrooms. By the way, where the hell are all the free drugs and alcohol adults swore we were gonna be offered? Still waitin' on those!

[@Loralanthalas]

That's how shame works.

[@coreymartin6363]

Absenthe makes the heart grow fonder.

[@corkbulb2895]

Okay! I've just done a lot of research on this and apparently, the old method of making absinthe does not contain enough oils to cause any effect. Most likely, these old drinks from the 1800s didn't actually cause the things it did. More likely, it was an easy explanation for the lead an arsenic poisoning everybody seemed to have, plus God knows what else these people were ingesting. A lot of food and drink manufacturing used harmful chemicals that were not know yet to be harmful. Also, pretty much every drug was legal back then. Modern absinthe contains distilled wormwood oil and the plants are genetically selected to produce WAY more oils, just like modern weed is. However, from what I read, absinthe doesn't actually do anything and actual blind medical studies reported no change in the effects reported by subjects who were given plain alcohol and alcohol with wormwood oil.

[@JennyLane8666]

Love the compilation format! Keep them coming, guys! :D

[@katherinecollins4685]

Well researched

[@LawNerdAmber]

I drank absynthe and all that happened was i got so drunk i fell on my face and ripped out my nose ring. I understood my Mardi Gras assignment

[@LindaB651]

Yes, as an inhabitant of North Eastern USA, my fuzzy sock collection is wonderful and warm!

[@joekellyou]

A nearly two hour video on Absinthe? How much did the script writers drink when writing this? 🤣😊

[@iPYW]

I was hoping this would put me to sleep, but it was way too interesting XD

[@saltdaemon4453]

As far as tapping on a can of soda... you can drop kick it, pick it up and use a cheap old ball-point pen to pop the button that attaches the tab the can & then you can open it regularly.

[@ricksaint2000]

Thank you Simon

[@GroberWeisenstein]

The only hallucinating is thinking you are going to be affected so.

[@corkbulb2895]

That's called the "placebo effect". That doesn't work on me. I'm either high or I'm not. I can't get high because I think I should be. Too bad all my friends seem to be able to do so. Gave a friend a crushed up aspirin once and told her it was coke. Called me back and said it was great stuff and wanted more. It was probably from how pure white is was. The brain is an amazing and strange machine.

[@windhelmguard5295]

yea my older brother drank a whole bottle worth in shots once and he got shitfaced, but sure as hell wasn't hallucinating. and he did schrooms and LSD in the past (along with pretty much every other drug that did not require a needle to consume) so the guy knows when he's trippin'.

[@NihilisticHatred]

Got a nasty headache from it.

[@TheBeavadelic]

That was Project Farm level testing on the shaken pop cans! Kudos 👏

[@EugeneEden-i6w]

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made

[@DarthTrotter]

Worked well with Transkei Gold. Spidery.

[@Mickcotton]

This guy is talking so fast !!!! Must have a ounce of Pure Merk Pharmaceutical Cocaine 😂😂😂👍❤️

[@farmer-jon]

I have had it, while in Japan. It was good. Only differences I noticed was it kicked in a lot quicker and stronger. Also, it’s the only drink I have ever scene that dyed the ice in the drink green. Not sure how, but I wasn’t about to waste money, so I ate the ice too. The ice not only was the same green as the drink but tasted like Absinthe too. It actually tasted like a much more concentrated version of the drink. By the way, the ice was clear and normal when they made my drink; I watched them make it.

[@mannacler]

I'd like to know the name of this barrier the brand of absinthe.

[@farmer-jon]

@@mannacler I don’t know what the name was. I had two drinks served different ways. One was the cloudy version that didn’t kick very hard, and I told the bar tender that it was nice but didn’t seem strong enough. The second one was straight Absinthe on ice in a Martini 🍸 glass. I probably chatted over about 15-30 minutes and by that time when I finished my drink the ice had turned a cloudy green and was quite strong once I ate the ice. The drink itself was clear green the entire time, which made it even more surprising to see the ice had turned that cloudy green. Back then, Japan was one of the few places in the world where I could try the genuine version rather than the less effective versions available in the United States where I live. I am not sure how it is these days but I hope to go back again one day and try some more of the genuine type of Absinthe. The bar was in Shinjuku near the Singing Man statue of memory serves.

[@Kamamura2]

@@farmer-jon It was probably a fake "crapsinth" similar to the Czech crappy imitations from the 90s - terrible wormwood vodka colored by artificial colors. True absinthe takes it color from chlorophyl from the botanicals which will never color ice - in fact, after louching, the drink often turns milky white, and the green color disappears. In other words, you were scammed by a Japanese tourist trap.

[@MsDsn420]

@2:13 I thought he said major doobie. 😅 I just finished smoking one so you could imagine my surprise...

[@matthewbarker1785]

Nice call out with 2pac. That song is a deep cut. That album gets looked over in his large catalog. Love all your videos across all channels. I was a history channel kid in the 90s. This fills my ears during my 12 hour shift. Very boring job might as well learn some stuff.

[@sophdog1678]

Looking for a mixer for your green absinthe? I tried so many then finally discovered that ginger beer works perfectly.

[@goclimbsomething]

Lucy > mushies > Molly imo. Careful with dissociative’s. One of the most psychedelic chems out there has gotta be DXM; cough syrup is no joke. Nothing will make one hallucinate like lack of sleep though. If you’re gonna trip: seek out a solid source in the psychedelic community. Test doses save lives! Always start small. Remember “set & setting.” There most certainly are “wonderful, curious things” to be experienced..

[@corkbulb2895]

DMX don't work on me and I was concerned about liver and kidney damage based on how much I took, and felt like I was dying. Every time I try some over the counter stuff or buy something from a smoke shop, my heart races, skips beats, I get dizzy and extremely nervous, and feel like I'm gonna die and fail to get any high. I don't get it. Same effects from every drug. Shock. Like real medical shock, like, from an injury. Had a friend that loved DMX though. Strange how different people have completely different experiences.

[@justinh.4437]

i accidently inhaled alot of the stuff and i was seeing two kinda three😂 roads i was driving on😂😂 was trying to keep all three of me on the road😂

[@yerttttt]

Where can one go to find out more about the uncovered films in Alaska?

[@absinthe4breakfast299]

I've had a bit of experience with the green fairy I've also had some experience with various hallucinogens and I can quite categorically state that Absinthe does not make you hallucinate, also many of the more common brands of Absinthe are pure trash (especially the Czech stuff) it's basically just industrial strength alcohol mixed with green food colouring. The best Absinthes are the distilled ones that come from France and Switzerland but they will cost you a pretty penny. Having said that the effect of Absinthe is quite distinct from other forms of alcohol and if you can get your hands on some good quality stuff it's worth experiencing, just don't drink it neat, dilute it with iced water to a ratio of around four or five to one and don't spoil it by adding sugar.

[@tiffanytupper8983]

I saw the Toe one Yukon on globe trekker! 😂

[@vanwinfield5412]

Who ordered the Temu simon?

[@kellyrickard9171]

One of my worse hangovers was drinking Le Fée absinthe purely because i didnt feel that drunk till it was too late

[@Iris_and_or_George]

39:33 Whenever you open a can of fizzy drink or a bottle of Champagne and it foams out, ASAP tip the bottle /can as far as you can without pouring. This is the most efficient way to save your drink. Whatever you do, DON'T try to cover the opening, this just cause it to squirt further.

[@jimmccauley9099]

Plinking the opening tab on a beer can really seems to stop the foam. You know, fingernail under the tab and plinking it like a bass string.

[@RareInTheHistory]

Yep, I've done that since I was a kid. I had 2 older brothers, and they always tried to give a fizzy can, or would make a dribble can after you opened it (poke a little hole right under where your bottom lip hits the can so tfat it dribbles out every time you drink but too small a hole to notice right away).

[@raymondmartin6737]

That's the Spirit! 😮

[@Joe_Dirt82]

I wanna buy that shaker machine... For research....

[@CamLedbetter]

Simon: Extrememly watered down version of the brew... My brain: So, it's Bud Light, then. LOL

[@alexandercorey850]

Major doobie 😂

[@tiki_trash]

Thujone's half-life can vary between 10 and 24 hours, and its long half-life is part of what makes it toxic. Thujone leaves the bloodstream through the lungs and kidneys, mostly through the kidneys. If you are drinking absinthe everyday you will be steadily increasing the thujone in your bloodstream, however small that dose is per drink.

[@RealLoki]

How mant times did Whistler change costume during this vid, oh and age hairstyle etc?

[@Mickcotton]

A Hour & a Half video 😂😂😂. I’ll need 2- Bottles to get threw this 😂😂😂🚽🤡

[@sambenson7229]

On the shaking bit... cans vs bottles. Wouldn't the bottle just produce more foam because it has a smaller exposed surface area at the top of the bottlle vs a can? Like you said earlier in the video, the bubbles being at the top of the vessel on the surface means oess liquid is foamed. I feel like a bottle has something like a third of the surface area vs a can.... but then you went on about glass bottles and i was zoned out for a moment... so i may have just missed the explanation.

[@sambenson7229]

Makes sense glasss would have less nucleation sites than plastic with how "smooth" glass is.

[@sambenson7229]

Also I just realized.... "on the shaking bit" is terribly non-specific in a video with this much alcoholism... whoops.

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

Regarding the fade off in over-fizz on drinks over time after shaking, I need someone to run this test on champagne and other fizzy wines

[@honkeykong9592]

9:03 this sounds terrible!

[@mechasentai]

Oreo Sisters, Ordinair, Major Duby? Tell me you're making these names up? 😂

[@jmr]

And the extremely high proof alcohol has nothing to do with it?

[@garmrbanalras2579]

Ive drank absinth a few times and the only time ive felt anything outside of being drunk, was when it was infused eoth thc. For obvious reasons.

[@khironkinney1667]

As far as Bloody Marys are concerned I absolutely hate tomato juice but the best Bloody Mary I have ever had was at a place called The Firehouse Grill in Auburn Maine. My friends and I refer to it as Mana juice whatever you did the night before it will invigorate you and fix it

[@khironkinney1667]

Tell Trish I sent you

[@murrayscott9546]

According to Keith Richards' autobiography " Life ", Stones' saxophone player, Bobby Keys, knows how many bottles of Champagne it takes to fill a bath+- tub. Read book to find out why and aftermath.

[@desperadox7565]

I only drink Champaign from long glasses because I like to watch the rise of the bubbles.

[@lorrainebedson7261]

i was telling my family how i don't get affected by any alcohol now so my nephew got a shot of absinthe and asked me to try it. I knocked it back and he sat there waiting for a reaction that never arrived

[@corkbulb2895]

Yeah I'll join you in that boat. Had a "kava" party once. Everyone seemed high out of there minds and even though I took twice as much as everybody else, absolutely NOTHING happened. Might as well have been vitamins to me. Or sugar pills. Different people react completely differently to things

[@1980jemstar]

I only had absinthe once, I don’t actually remember much after drinking it but I didn’t like the aniseed taste, the rest of the night is a mystery.

[@Dirtboxhor]

I've had original absithine made from original Czech Rep recipe. Best way I can describe it is a clear headed drunk and smoking some of the best weed at the same time.

[@Kamamura2]

There are no "original Czech recipes", that's all a scam invented by the unscrupulous peddlers in the 90s. There's no proof that absinthe was even drunk much in Czech - Hašek certainly does not mention it in Good Soldier Svejk, and he names all kinds of alcohol in that book. The Czech addition to absinthe was to fake it by cheap, bitter wormwood vodka colored with artificial dyes and earn money from the "hallucinations" malarkey. There are many shops in the center of Prague that sell absolutely awful "crapsinth". There are two where absinthe started - Switzerland and France.

[@spider_pig7588]

I powered through a bottle of absinthe one day in my 20s hoping to hallucinate. All I got was black out and a raging hangover haha

[@jeffreydurham2566]

I heard absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

[@AndyJarman]

I hear voices in my head, but I just ignore them and open another bottle.

[@darksteve84]

Last time i drank it in Australia i woke up with one hell of a headache and the taste of minty petrol in my mouth 😅

[@mathiasvofrey9240]

ancient video i know, But. you're not tapping hard enough. use a heavy spoon to get a result. works for me every time. (unshaken can out of fridge, no tap - foam, proper tap - no foam)

[@hlrose71]

Furtively hides coffee cup filled with wine from ... Oh, who am I kidding, I've drank wine out of a juice box with a straw.

[@julianhancock7552]

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder?!

[@DrunkenHotei]

So michelada mix was invented as a "cure" for suicidal thoughts? That's a fun fact to share with my friends here in Mexico.

[@RDOTTIN]

I grew the plant, I made the tea, I drank the whole pot. No hallucination.

[@Olikatz]

The dude who originally patented it actually stole it from women who made it for years as a medicinal tonic. I don't know that there's a ton of info on it, but I went to a lecture once with someone whose family got screwed over by the guy. Basically the guy stole their family receipe, but it was the kind of thing multiple people were making before him.

[@tubapaco]

Yukon Jack is like Drambuie but better.

[@Iris_and_or_George]

Where Simon lives Absinthe may have 35mg Thujon per kg instead of the 10mg/kg in most of the rest of Europe and they sell it at every liquor store. I even found 1 with 100mg/kg. Still not enough to hallucinate but, it does always give you a nice but different buzz.

[@MrLoobu]

I had some real deal stuff from poland one time, 2 quick doubles, and I can say there is definitely more to it than just the alcohol. I couldnt stop laughing and there were mild visual hallucinations, no fairy though. I didnt get that deep, it wasnt my bottle.

[@MercurtioCor]

You should do Johnnie Eck creating the most famous Magic Trick.

[@PeculiarCrafts]

Hey Dave 👋

[@Kurious_Kiwi]

What is a clondyke? I know I can google it but I'm sleepy and its more interesting to ask here

[@hiruluk]

Twas funky seeing another host but I 100% approve of the thorough experiment and debunking of the tapping myth 👍💪🤌

[@desperadox7565]

Make a TIFO about why so many people drink tomato juice *only* on a plane.

[@mkv2718]

no, absinthe is just really strong. wormwood isn’t really psychoactive, and it’s only “active” chemical in it, Thujone, just has the ability to cause convulsions (fun!). you know what else has wormwood in it, to the point that it’s the main flavoring? Malort- the most disgusting drink ever, courtesy of chicago. is that hallucinogenic? nope. so why would the wormwood in absinthe be? absinthe is just traditionally very strong, and anyone drinking it straight (like a dope) would be hammered beyond belief. doesn’t matter what booze you drink, drink enough and you’ll be seeing pink elephants. absinthe just tastes nice, especially with some sparkling white wine (a la a Death in the Afternoon, tho not made as strong as Hemingway originally made it 😅) so no, if you drank absinthe and thought it felt different… that’s just the placebo effect messing with you. it’s just a strong herbal spirit. it’s not acid in a cocktail. edit: and you covered these points, so good on you Simon. no guillotine for you in the near future! 😉 edit 2: yeah… wine snobbery is like 99% absolute bullsh!t 😂

[@charlesachurch7265]

Shrinks beards too!

[@Rr0gu3_5uture]

I once drank 3/4s of a bottle of the 70% La Fée stuff. Must admit I was pretty blotto, ended up drunkenly munching a whole 16" kebab shop pepperoni pizza. No hallucinations though.

[@skuddingomcwinters6119]

Absinthe does not make me hallucinate. Makes me friggin real drunk though.

[@44hawk28]

DMT does not make you hallucinate. The reason we know this is because in controlled studies, virtually everyone has the exact same experience when it fully plays out. And that cannot be a hallucination. There's no such thing as a mass hallucination

[@typo44]

Your assumption that the container types do not have different levels of carbonation is not what I heard. I actually heard the glass bottles have HIGHER levels of carbonation added because the glass bottles can hold higher pressure.