Mysterious plate. Anyone please tell me the story of the pattern? Thanks.

Bourbon is North American. The Ozzies say whisky or Scotch. Or whiskey if it is Irish, but you don't hear the difference.

 

I can be obnoxious over the New York idiom of 'a scissor'. To me that's like calling the article of clothing 'a pant'. So, when asked if I have one, I'll say, No, only a pair; they work better that way.

 

But...they Taste different!

Bourbon tastes like liquid fur. Dark mink.

 

Bronwen: How very plural of you!

 

They all taste different. There are huge differences in taste between the many different Scottish whiskys for one. I used to prefer Isle of Jura whisky, my brother preferred Lagavulin, my father Tamdhu, a Speyside whisky.

 

And I like to think of myself as singular.

 

I was raised by North (New) Jersey refugees and have been known to say "scissor" instead of scissors. Guilty. Whisky however is whisky and bourbon is bourbon. I haven't had any of either in years.

 

I love furrin accents...it's one of the things I most miss about chatting with Y'all.....

 

According to my nephew who is 30, has nearly 100 bottles of "whiskey" in his collection, has completed several whiskey appreciation courses and buys whiskey from around the world: Whiskey is basically a big umbrella and each individual country has similar but different requirements for a spirit to be called whiskey. In Scotland, whiskey has to be barrel aged for a minimum of 3 years while in Australia 2 years before it can be sold as whiskey.
In Ireland, the spirit has to be triple distilled whereas Scotland only requires 2 distillations.
In America, they have Bourbon Whiskey, and for this classification, it needs to have 51% or more corn maze rather than just wheat. However, America also has rye whiskey (and I guess others) which isn't bourbon.
So there you have it. Confused? Where's the Scotch?

 

rum please !

 

The Scottish can get upset when you call their whisky whiskey. Whiskey is Irish, and the Scottish think their whisky is unique and much better than Irish whiskey. (I agree.)

 

'Tis all usquebaugh to me.

 

Speaking of Bourbon...ahem...personally, I can't stand the stuff. (The only parts of a Mint Julep I don't hate are the ice and the silver beaker!)

However, one Christmas I decided to make Bourbon Balls for my mother-in-law's Southern beau. (Now those, I like!) The recipe is basically: chocolate cookies, cocoa powder and a LOT of bourbon. Made two dozen, and put them in the bread drawer to...ripen.

That afternoon, my five-year-old took a nap. Unusual. UNHEARD OF!! However, at the time, I checked her temperature...normal...and then thanked my lucky stars and continued my Christmas wrapping.

That evening I went to the bread drawer to get the Bourbon Balls to box and wrap as well. Out of 24, there was one, lone, pathetic cookie.

No wonder my daughter napped for two hours!

 

she ate 23 of them.......

 

All at once? OOK! That would put me out too!

 

I think she passed out....rather than a ' nap ' !!!

 

Your mother-in-law's Southern beaus?

 

Or beaux if one is being pedantic and sticking to the original construction. In modern text-speak, they're the BFs.

 

OMG! Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Culpa! And me with MY background! What an incredibly sloppy sentence!! Apologies, AJ, and anyone else offended/confused, etc.

Must have been the bourbon fumes getting to me...