It tastes like pine trees.

As it should. I love to indoctrinate people in the ways of sloe gin: pine trees and sweet plums. Christmas drink. It is to yum.

A proper Collins is also made with gin, and that doesn't taste like pine trees at all.

(What is with vodka taking over all of gin's former jobs?)

I mean, I guess it wasn't yucky, as long as there's tonic to cut it. It just seems like such an odd taste. It's refreshing, though.

YABMV

Your Alcoholic Beagle May Vary?

What is with vodka taking over all of gin's former jobs?

Vodka doesn't have a taste, I guess, therefore better to make non-alcohol tasting drinks out of? I don't understand (not that I have a problem with it, it just makes no sense to me) trying to make a drink not taste like the thing you put in it.

Your Alcoholic Beagle May Vary?

puts finger on nose, points at P-C

puts finger on nose, points at P-C

So you want me to throw a strike?

As it should. I love to indoctrinate people in the ways of sloe gin: pine trees and sweet plums. Christmas drink. It is to yum.

Heh. The alcohol chair for my club in college the year before I got there had bought, for no reason anyone could figure out, cases of sloe gin. Seriously, it was crappy beer, a handle of vodka, and sloe gin out our ears. Led to some very odd drinks. (I was fond of sloe gin and sprite, myself.)

Regular gin I can't cope with, though.

I'm happy to set something up on b.org, but it would require someone to hand count the ballots.

Fred Pete had volunteered earlier to count votes. If he's still willing then I'm thinking we can go with the b.org ballot system, it seems to have the least potential for error.

I'm waiting to get on a plane bound for Seattle, so I'll get the list of cities that are up for the vote in the next day or so. We'll double check to make sure that we aren't missing any cities, and then get the voting up and running. I'm thinking next week we'll open the polling.

ND, sounds good, on the polling.

Kicking the olives off a muffaletta negates the point of the muffaletta.

Not if the olives put you in the hospital, yo.

Well, it does seem that that would make it essentially an Italian sub. Not a muffaletta.

So I don't think you can kick the olives out of a muffaletta -- but you can have a completely different sandwich, this one without olives.