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Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey
 By whom? Had it been decanted into a silver-filigree-decanter or something? I mean, maybe the Japs claimed it was worth $5,800, but are we seriously expected to believe that any Japanese whisky is worth more than about $10?
It's whisky, of sorts, I suppose. I wouldn't expect anyone to have drunk it, but maybe Mrs Pompeo used it in her cooking. I wouldn't put it in a trifle, but maybe it ended up in a fruit cake? |
I've never heard of Japanese liquor used in cooking, maybe taken with live squid tentacles (perhaps) (that's more Korean though isn't it?) but would not recommend searching that topic like I just did however occasionally when sourcing Icelandic sloe vodka as an alternative when Polish rose-petal liqueur is unavailable (for use in a trifle) I meet an unusual gentleman. The head is like something from Frans Hals; he claims to be an Irish Dutchman and trades by the docks but is frequently absent getting in even more expensive liquor priced from around $7,000 and up. Chatting away at one of his tastings (there was usually one taking place but not of the ten grand stuff) I asked if he sold much?
“Oh, yes,” he said. “Quite a lot, or at least regular enough to keep a good selection in.” And it was certainly that. He was promoting a Tasmanian raspberry concoction that looked like a pink milkshake but was rather confusing.
“Who buys it?” I wondered. Around there are some large shipping HQ's and exporting manufacturers (well, that's his story and he stuck to it) which is plausible even from a Dutch Irishman who looks like he lost his razor halfway to reducing the beard down to Laughing Cavalier proportions.
“Sometimes they have a good month,” he looked like he slept under a hedge, “‘Hurrah!’ they say, ‘Let's all whack in a few hundred out of this large bonus we won't be mentioning to SO's and get some of that muck he's got around the corner.’” Which they do. They get to keep most of the bonus accompanied by ludicrously overpriced cigars (he kept a range to choose from) and a tot they'd otherwise never get to sample.
He made very good sense but as the details show, I hope, someone looking like that in his shop down the docks selling $10,000 bottles of anything with a Dutch-Irish accent is mot always reliable. The raspberry stuff was OK though. I bought some of that. Perhaps Mrs Pompeo would like some?