Kinell I've got enough on fighting off the match thread usurpers(mrs has got me watching GOT) to remember tihs anarl. Anyway Dennis is the man for this
Kali was rainbow crystals. please log in to view this image Sherbet was what was in the middle of these. please log in to view this image At least, that's how I recall it. Language is fairly dynamic and meaning can evolve surprisingly quickly. For example having a few sherbets can leave you kaylied. Both words are holding completely different meanings here. I love a bit of etymology, me.
Thanks DMD, gave me a few minutes fun. Kali is the name given to a plant that was used by Venetian glass makers in the glass making process, when it is burn the ashes are dissolved in water and the ash float's to the bottom. The liquid is Sodium carbonate and when evaporated it forms crystals. This can be used as an ingredient of sherbet/kali. The Hindi goddess Kali destroys ego's and she is strongly linked with cremation. She also got carried away after drinking blood and had to be subdued.
Don't know where the word came from or even how it's spelt but I remember buying bags of it (loose from a big jar) with a stick of liquorice to dip in. The stick was about 5-6 inches long and the top 2-3 inches was flattened so you could scoop the kali out, I think the brand name was 'Orozo' or something like that.
Extract form an article in the Northern Echo 2006, BACK to the black stuff, if not to the blackclocks. The previous week's column had been chewing on about liquorice - "Spanish" to North-East bairns - thus stirring memories for Mike Heaviside, in Cockfield. Over that way, he recalls, kids in the 50s could buy rock-like liquorice sticks, about five inches long and with a flattened on which the legend "Orozo hardjuice" was inscribed. Bugger all to do with Christmas booze though...
Christmas spirit drinking this year will mainly comprise of Bacardi 8. We have a lot of wine in and I will be buying some exotic beers.
Further alcoholic update Mrs Tash went shopping today We now also have 10year old port Advocaat Triple Sec (God knows why...maybe I'll have to get some Tequila after all) Prosecco Red wine (mainly Aussie Shiraz) White wine (all New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc) 6 bottles of champagne (3 normal and 3 pink...for Christmas breakfast) I am slightly regretting not buying the bottle of plum saki I was tasting at the House of Townend place at Melton
Auchentoshan 3 wood whisky Gran Mare Gin Kraken Rum Pussers gunpowder Rum Jim Beam Rye Royal Lochnagar whiskey Bacardi oakheart Rum and various beers though its mostly Guinness Newcastle brown San Miguel
We're all going round to Dennis'zz for a bit of Snowballing, and not the dirty kind. I've not got any booze in yet as I was laid low all weekend, still went to work today like. I'm hoping there's some exotic fruit Perry's knocking about.
Some nice choices there Auchentoshan is a nice drink as is Pussers I was drinking Kraken in cocktails in a bar in Notting Hill recently but I haven't had it on its own, what's it like?
