wrote:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:00:56 -0600, Conan the Librarian
wrote:

[snip of another of Richard's hallucinations :-)]

(of course, it could have been the wormwood)

If wormwood was involved, you would have had to been at the New Absinthe
House...

I'm afaid I'm missing some inside joke here, but I'll bite.

I'm guessing no place in NoLa would be serving absinthe (or at least
no place would do it openly). I know they still make a drink with
Pernod that's supposed to be similar to the old absinthe drip, but
there's no wormwood in it. (Wormwood was outlawed in the twenties.(?))

Now that I think about it, I remember seeing two "absinthe houses"
in the Vieux Carre. One was pretty rundown and very quiet, while the
other was bustling. We stopped at the one that was rundown.


Chuck Vance (absinthe makes the heart grow fon ... naw, I can't
do it)