Use Your Noggin 2015-12-29

[FirehawkShadowchild]

It has to be a printing mistake, surely meant to be bonbon ... the sugar has to come somewhere, right?

And yes ... those were/are hangover bubbles.

Link: http://wapsisquare.com/comic/use-your-noggin/

[jeffepp]

Oopsie! Looks like someone messed up somewhere. Maybe they didn't think Atsali looked under 30, and didn't card her? Maybe they didn't look at her face at all? And we know how bird-brained she can be about things like this... (How can they not know what Bourbon is?)

[FirehawkShadowchild]

Somehow I don't think they went out to buy the eggnog. I guess they just raided the fridge.

[TazManiac]

It might be that the clerk didn't know it was the 'Leaded' version (general distraction), and/or that selling Atsali anything is a very easy thing to contribute to (Siren/Succubus unintended influence).

DinkyInky!, they need some native guide/ Big Sis leadership in discovering what Bourbon be. To the Batcave!

[Opus the Poet]

Iowa bourbon?

[TazManiac]

Iowa bourbon?

Well, 1st off it's Paul writing this stuff, but in any case you might be surprised not only by the old timey small batch distillers (not just pre-prohibition but pre-statehood) but also the current upwelling in boutique distillery production.

edit- Yep, IOWA; http://whiskey.underthelabel.com/l/450/ ... on-Whiskey

[Gyrrakavian]

Iowa bourbon?

Well, 1st off it's Paul writing this stuff, but in any case you might be surprised not only by the old timey small batch distillers (not just pre-prohibition but pre-statehood) but also the current upwelling in boutique distillery production.

edit- Yep, IOWA; http://whiskey.underthelabel.com/l/450/ ... on-Whiskey

So long as it tastes good, I don't care what state it comes from.

...unless we're talking states of matter. I'd imagine freezing it ruins it (though it'd take some effort to freeze it). And I don't know of any baking recipes that call for bourbon. Though, I'd imagine it'd be something to do with chocolate.

[FreeFlier]

Okay, I hadn't thought of that one . . . . . . But she's almost 17 and doesn't know what bourbon is?

By the time I was 17, several of my classmates had made booze . . . I was told that moonshine made from green peppers tastes weird.

As far as Iowa bourbon . . . lots of corn in Iowa, so it makes sense that some of it would be made into bourbon. And the craft distilleries are turning up everywhere. However, according to this article, 95% of bourbon is made in Kentucky.

And I suspect they raided the fridge somewhere . . . but whose fridge?

--FreeFlier

[FirehawkShadowchild]

Thinking about it ... how would Atsali know what Bourbon is? She grew up in an orphanage and if Kath doesn't like to drink Bourbon now and then, there isn't much chance that Atsali got in contact with any good booze.

Now why Nadette doesn't know is another question.

As for "whose fridge" ... they are in a luxurious cabin, sure there are enough fridges around for one to hold eggnog in christmas season.

[Akeche]

As a proud Kentuckian I'd like to state my bristly dissatisfaction at the notion of any bourbon made outside of the state being called 'fine'.

[GlytchMeister]

As a proud Kentuckian I'd like to state my bristly dissatisfaction at the notion of any bourbon made outside of the state being called 'fine'.

I have a feeling this bristly dissatisfaction is similar to what is felt by any self-respecting Chicagoan when they hear "Willis Tower."

As for the strip:

Oh boy... If Atsali googles bourbon, I predict she is gonna freak out and feel super guilty...

[TazManiac]

As a proud Kentuckian I'd like to state my bristly dissatisfaction at the notion of any bourbon made outside of the state being called 'fine'.

I think, just in the last 48 hours, I saw some film dialog where two guys where about to rush into some kind of action and the one asks the other

"American?"

and was replied to with:

"Me? Naw, I'm from Kentucky!"

[Bud_Fanboi]

As a proud Kentuckian I'd like to state my bristly dissatisfaction at the notion of any bourbon made outside of the state being called 'fine'.

Look up Cedar Ridge. They don't do as high a proof on their Rye Whiskey as I'd preffer but they're not half bad for being in Iowa.

[chicgeek]

Earlier, remember Atsali commenting on how rich her sweetie's family was, and the luxury cabin? Yep, they raided a fridge. Hee, is anyone else having 'wake up, little Suzie' run through their head? These girls are going to get 'nudge nudge wink wink suuure you fell asleep' from everyone. While hungover.
Just don't go for the candy, girls, that box of weird tasting chocolates is probably bourbon balls.

[jwhouk]

I'm just trying to figure out how a carton eggnog has bourbon in it... Most stuff 'round here in cartons is NA. Of course, I live on the "right" side of the river, where eggnog is better known for its dairy content than its alcohol...

[FreeFlier]

Thinking about it ... how would Atsali know what Bourbon is? She grew up in an orphanage and if Kath doesn't like to drink Bourbon now and then, there isn't much chance that Atsali got in contact with any good booze.

Actually, I suspect that Atsali does know, intellectually . . . but hadn't read the carton. She'll probably start off with where the term originated, and how Bourbon County got split up, and . . . you know, her usual wrong-time display of book-learnin'.

Unless the hangover is too oppressive/distracting.

Now why Nadette doesn't know is another question.

That's who I was wondering about.

As for "whose fridge" ... they are in a luxurious cabin, sure there are enough fridges around for one to hold eggnog in christmas season.

But why would you have it in a fridge at a place you weren't planning to use . . . and if you were planning on using it, where are the others? Unless this is Christmas morning and the plan was to be there starting on say Boxing Day (26 December).

. . . Oh boy... If Atsali googles bourbon, I predict she is gonna freak out and feel super guilty...

Oh, of course . . . or Nadette, if she's the one the swiped/poured the eggnog . . .

Will Atsali start with the "Just a game" again?

I'm just trying to figure out how a carton eggnog has bourbon in it... Most stuff 'round here in cartons is NA. Of course, I live on the "right" side of the river, where eggnog is better known for its dairy content than its alcohol...

It is offered, though it's usually not the better stuff (not that I like eggnog or alcohol- blech - alcohol is a solvent or motor fuel).

--FreeFlier

[Dave]

As a proud Kentuckian I'd like to state my bristly dissatisfaction at the notion of any bourbon made outside of the state being called 'fine'.

'"Old Smoky, 1968" has been compared favourably to a Welch claret...' as the Python sketch about Australian table wines put it...

I think, just in the last 48 hours, I saw some film dialog where two guys where about to rush into some kind of action and the one asks the other

"American?"

and was replied to with:

"Me? Naw, I'm from Kentucky!"

My wife and I were staying in Carcassonne (southeastern France) a few months ago and had walked from our apartment to a local home-in-the-wall food store to buy supplies for dinner. A rather harried-looking elderly man dashed in the door, looked around, came over to us, and asked rather urgently "Do you speak English?" in what was clearly an English accent.

"Yes. Well, American... close enough" I replied.

Accuracy in such matters is sometimes important... even critical. Phrases such as "Knock me up in the morning" could prove troublesome if interpreted in the wrong local context.

(The Pun Jar wishes it could compel Paul to pay for the Pun in today's strip title, but it knows better than to insist.)

[Skywatcher68]

Last panel is missing a closing quote.

[DilyV]

Where did my post go?

EDIT: My post about 3:15 am said:

Good old Dack Janiels Egg Nog... Goes Down Smooth... Kicks like a mule!

Oh yeah... and Nadette? Bourbon was a Pitcher for the Reds back in the 70s I think... hehehe (Pedro Borbon was a relief pitcher who played 10 seasons for the Cincinnati Reds 1970-1979)

*Upon further rumination, drops a left handed catchers mitt and a baseball in the Pun Jar*

[Warrl]

So long as it tastes good, I don't care what state it comes from.

...unless we're talking states of matter. I'd imagine freezing it ruins it (though it'd take some effort to freeze it).

Actually, freezing is a way to increase the concentration of alcohol. The water it's mixed with will freeze first, so you want to catch the stuff while there's still some liquid. Separate out the liquid and then throw away the ice.

This is my guess for what "ambrosia" originally was. The ancient Greeks associated it with their gods, who were thought to live on a mountaintop... where one would routinely find freezing temperatures in winter. They certainly didn't have heat-based distilling apparatus, so this is probably the only way they'd encounter alcohol at concentrations higher than those produced directly by fermentation.

And I don't know of any baking recipes that call for bourbon. Though, I'd imagine it'd be something to do with chocolate.

Bourbon bacon brownies

Or, for more variety...