Today I picked a liquor bottle off the street and took it home for eventual recycling. Not a little nip bottle, either. It could hold, like, a quart. And it used to hold pineapple vodka.
I've never been a big vodka drinker. It doesn't have much of a flavor and the flavor it has is unpleasantly medicinal, like cough syrup that doesn't do anything abut your cough.
Apparently even a large portion of those who do drink it agree, because the market has been flooded with variants that just add one soda poppy flavor before you even start mixing. Pineapple, raspberry, blueberry, etc. And if you wonder whether the trend has hit the point of absurdity yet...
I've never been a big vodka drinker. It doesn't have much of a flavor and the flavor it has is unpleasantly medicinal, like cough syrup that doesn't do anything abut your cough.
Apparently even a large portion of those who do drink it agree, because the market has been flooded with variants that just add one soda poppy flavor before you even start mixing. Pineapple, raspberry, blueberry, etc. And if you wonder whether the trend has hit the point of absurdity yet...
...wonder no longer.
2 comments:
Besides trying some particularly excreble lemon gin somebody brought to a party many years ago I've never sampled another flavored liquor. Vodka never appealed to me either but I do see your point about just how disgusting flavoring the stuff with bacon would be.
We see a lot of multiply flavored things that needn't be - so many of the juices are mixed with cranberries lately it can be hard to find a pure one. Then there are the flavored waters. Why would anyone want to drink Jalapeño and watermelon water? What's wrong with the tap?
Liqueur is fine, or at least some is. The lemon gin you mention was probably made to save a step making Tom Collinses. But they probably weren't as good as plain gin mixed with lemon juice. I doubt there's much if any real bacon in bacon vodka, but it's a symptom of jaded taste buds either way. And that's coming from someone who loves bacon in its original, crispy form.
You do see a lot of mixed juices. I figure if the juice claims to be from three fruits - pineapple/mango/kiwi, say - you can only taste two at maximum and maybe just one. Watermelon jalapeño water doesn't sound very refreshing, I'd have to say.
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