Re: Drug Use in Korea

["Patricia Winston \(Trish\)" <winstonp001@hawaii.rr.com>]

Still, nothing could be worse than Double Happiness beer.

Trish

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hickcox" <cometkazie@earthlink.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: Drug Use in Korea


> 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
>
>