14 Replies to “The Endangered American Crafts Tradition [Dan Collins]”

1. maggie katzen says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:14 pm

   first! *hic*

2. maggie katzen says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:17 pm

   sorry…. sorry. I’m not feeling well.

3. Carin says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:21 pm

   Glad to see my new commenting suggestions have been taken seriously. Now, just watch the quality trolls appear.

4. RiverC says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:47 pm

   Man, that’s a old dude. Like, Methuselah had nothin’ on him.

5. Slartibartfast says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:47 pm

   Jack Daniels poured down the drain just might serve a useful purpose. Until now, I was having a hard time coming up with one.

6. Slartibartfast says:

   November 20, 2007 at 12:49 pm

   I mean, if you’re into alcoholic self-abuse, Slivovitz is probably more cost-effective.

7. Rob Crawford says:

   November 20, 2007 at 1:27 pm

   I’ve got a couple of mini-kegs of homebrew in the basement. I wouldn’t recommend them (they’re close to six years old), but who knows…

8. B Moe says:

   November 20, 2007 at 1:48 pm

   “One seized bottle dates to 1914, with its seal unbroken. Elks said it is worth $10,000 on the collectors market. Investigators are looking into whether the liquor was being sold for the value of the bottles rather than the whiskey.”

   I think we may have found a career for andy.

9. Sticky B says:

   November 20, 2007 at 2:03 pm

   I gotta agree with you Slarti. When I first started experimenting with whiskey, everybody and their dog was drinking some type of sour mash bourbon, most of them drinking Jack Daniels or Jim Beam. I couldn’t ever get into it. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that shit but I prefer to drink whiskey bottled north of the US border.

10. memomachine says:

    November 20, 2007 at 2:48 pm

    Hmmm.

    Ok so let me get this straight. Someone was **stealing** the whiskey and illegally selling the **stolen** whiskey and now they’re going to dump the **stolen** whiskey because someone else might **steal** the whiskey all over again?

    This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of. Where’s Jack Daniels in all this? Don’t they want to get their damn property back?

    Like the cops haven’t already gone over those bottles like a hobo at a Goodwill box.

11. memomachine says:

    November 20, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    Hmmm.

    I mean, if you’re into alcoholic self-abuse, Slivovitz is probably more cost-effective.

    I’d rather drink lighter fluid. I’ve got two bottles of Slivowitz, plum brandy, and all I can say that “harsh tasting crap” is too nice a term.

    Frankly if plum flavored alcohol is your bag, then infusing good vodka with ripe plums is a much better idea overall.

12. Kresh says:

    November 20, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    It’s bottled history. Of course it’s going down the drain. That’s what we do these days. I’m not surprised in the slightest.

    I am very sad about it though. I don’t even like JD, but I know many who will think this a tragedy on par with the sinking of the Titanic. Only, you know, this time they actually care about how many soldiers are dying. So to speak. *shrug*

13. Slartibartfast says:

    November 20, 2007 at 3:38 pm

    Frankly if plum flavored alcohol is your bag, then infusing good vodka with ripe plums is a much better idea overall.

    Slivovitz, although it claims to be plum brandy, doesn’t taste anything like plums. In fact, it might be somewhat accurately stated that it tastes almost (but not quite) entirely unlike plums.

    Slivovitz is more like what bad tequila aspires (and fails) to be.

14. Mikey NTH says:

    November 20, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    The human (life-forms) drinking Slivovitz aren’t doing that for the tase –
    as Yuri Andropov found out when he began his anti-alcohol campaign in the Soviet Union.

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