Re: Drug Use in Korea

[Tom Hickcox <cometkazie@earthlink.net>]

At 08:06 8/2/01, Janet Valentine wrote:

>LOL!  No doubt everyone on the list knows that gin is distilled from juniper
>berries.  I have to agree with Trish  on her assessment of  iodine as
>scotch - bleccchhhhh!  But those sorts of recollections are valuable
>historical evidence, and this one speaks of a long soldier tradition of
>creativity and flaunting of official regs.

I believe gin is flavored with rather than distilled from juniper 
berries.  At any rate, something has to be fermented to form the alcohol 
first, then distilled.  At one time the juniper berries were placed in the 
distillation column so the distillate picked up their flavor.

In Mister Roberts, his buddies tried to concoct Scotch from medicinal 
alcohol & used iodine as an ingredient.

FWIW,

Tommy