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OT Absinthe That's slightly misleading. It is legal again in the EU and IIRC never was illegal in the UK or Portugal. The amount of Thujone (the active substance in Wormwood) however is regulated. Recent research shows that widely available brands of Absinthe in its heyday would be perfectly legal today, since they never contained that much Thujone anyway. In short: you would've (and still will) succumb to alcohol poisioning before you will have any substantial effect from the Thujone. This is a bit of a generalisation. There's a bar in Leipzig that sells abou 90 different Absinthes. When I was there a few years ago with some friends we managed to taste about 30 different brands between us and the differences between them were rather astounding. Some were rather sublime, some very powerful, some simply awful. Furthermore, Absinthe is not designed to be drunk neat, but instead always diluted with water (cold for French style, hot for Czech style) and depending on the bitterness and your tastes you dip a more or less substantial piece of sugar in the Absinthe, set it on fire and let it drip into your glbutt, before you pour in the water. If you forget about the myths around it and the slightly dramatic way it is served, Absinthe is just another hard liquor. Some people like it, some people don't. Markus
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