hahaha

i'd forgotten this one!

scene: posh cheshire hotel
event: dad's 60th birthday
wine: expensive and free-flowing
in attendance: 4 year old cousin

my little cousin wanted to feel grown up, so she was drinking her dandelion & burdock out of a wine glass. the hotel was beautiful, but it was also quite dimly lit.

my cousin tugged on my hand and invited me to take her to the toilet. much as i was flattered by this charming invitation, it is not the kind of thing you can turn down. so i took her off to the ladies.

whilst we were gone, the waiter, topping up people's glasses with a vintage red, came across kate's half empty glass. presuming in the candlelight that it was red wine, he filled it up, and carried on his merry way.

when we arrived back at the table, my brothers and other cousin, kate's much older half brother, were suspiciously silent. eyes gleaming, they watched kate. i could tell something was up, but they wouldn't admit it.

after a few minutes of anticlimax, brother 1 said softly: "kaaaaate. don't you want some nice dandelion and burdock?"

the resulting temper tantrum took half an hour and a sack of maltesers to calm down. people 5 tables away found themselves covered in alcoholic dandelion and burdock and 4 year old's spit. my brothers thought it was well worth it.




i have just read this and realised you reeeeeally had to be there. oh well, suck it up, bitches!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:16, 7 replies)

...
www.b3ta.com/questions/abusingfreebies/post99269

*wonders if guzzling wine as a child is unusual*

Duzzint seem to of dun me enny harm.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:18, closed)

Dandelion & Burdock
Is the second greatest drink on the planet.

There is a pub in wigan that does D&B Beer which romps home as the greatest. It is sexier than waking up with Claire Danes, Kate Blanchett and enough viagra to raise Lenin
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:20, closed)

It is sexier than waking up with Claire Danes, Kate Blanchett and enough viagra to raise Lenin
No it isn't.

*shuffles uncomfortably on chair*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:29, closed)

twas a tough choice
but the beer won!
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:33, closed)

.
Whereabouts is this pub?

I must know, tell me nooowww!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 11:48, closed)

no idea
it was at the Cambridge real ale festival a couple of years ago, I have had a nose through the Camra site but cannot find it im afraid :(
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 12:19, closed)

online recipe
www.azdrinkrecipes.com/dandelion_and_burdock_beer_recipe-1009.htm

It works, and it works gooood.
(One_Winged_Angel Ich Dien, Thu 25 Sep 2008, 12:26, closed)