Hungarian national drink japery
On a stag weekend in Budapest last year we decided we had to try the national tipples. One of them was the hilariously-monikered Unicum, which tastes like Jagermeister with aspirin crushed up in it. Excellent at the end of the night to settle your stomach, apparently.

The other is pálinka, which is drunk in a stemmed glass, and comes in various flavours ranging from "really quite nice" to "somebody shoot me please".

One evening saw us in a cool-looking cellar bar called Cactus Juice. Me and another chap Nathan were at the bar, getting a couple more beers before our taxi arrived. Suspended above our heads was a giant green glass ball, with a tap on the bottom. Truly it was a beauteous thing to see.

"What's that?" we asked
"Pálinka" replied the barmaid "Honeyed peach flavour!"

Nathan and I looked at each other. Honeyed peach! That sounded delicious! Two were ordered, and downed at the bar as was customary.

Ho.

Lee.

Fuck

O_o

Honeyed peach? Undead peaches in diesel, more like. Nathan and I gasped, spluttered, swore, clung to the bar as consciousness wavered, then staggered back to where the rest of the group was sitting. Not only did our beers completely fail to mask the taste of the horror we'd just drunk, but everyone made us sit at the far end of the table as the smell of the pálinka was making them all feel sick...

tl;dr - me and a friend drunk some horrible booze and I described the experience beautifully
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 14:11, 6 replies)

You may have a click
for "undead peaches in diesel".
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 14:12, closed)

you may touch me

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 14:36, closed)

a friend brought back a bottle of palinka for me from his trip to hungary
it was revolting
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 14:37, closed)

What flavour was it?
it makes all the difference, believe me
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 14:39, closed)

oh, i don't even know
i didn't realise it came in different flavours. it was revolting though, made me almost insta-sick
( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 15:03, closed)

Unicum - so named because you don't know whether to spit or swallow

And now you're telling me that there's something that tastes worse?

What is it with these Magyars???
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 20 Feb 2013, 15:34, closed)