{"id":1061,"date":"2006-05-30T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2006-05-30T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:32:20","slug":"laphroaig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"Laphroaig"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, over at Making Light<\/a>, there was a discussion about making a flu-preparedness package for yourself (back when bird flu seemed like it was mere days from killing us all). During a mini-discussion of cough medicines, I remembered something the school nurse used to give me for asthma, back when I was seven or eight: a noxious yellow syrup called Quibron.<\/p>\n

Quibron is a blend of guaifenesin (an expectorant found in most cough medicines - yum) and theophylline (which expands airways). It tastes horrible. Beyond awful. I remarked on Making Light, that Quibron tasted like \"Robitussin triple-distilled over a tire fire then aged for 12 years in casks of piss oak\". I probably should have added \"with a splash of cat piss\" in addition to the Robitussin, to give it a little more of a pungent, up-front bite<\/i>. Horrible. Luckily, I haven't had any since I was a wee lad.<\/p>\n

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I bought a bottle of Laphroaig (\"la-froyg\") this weekend. It's a single-malt Scotch, from the island of Islay. I'd never tasted it before, but I like trying new things so I took a chance. As soon as the first drop hit my tounge, I thought of Quibron. Laphroaig is smokey, but not in a nice wood-smoke-on-a-cold-night way; this is more like burning plastic (peat, actually). It's medicinal. It's chemical. It's offensive. It tastes like some kind of industrial cleaner. Instead of inspiring romantic visions of the Isles off Scotland, it conjures nightmares of industrial Britain<\/a>: an afternoon spent near a burning paint factory by the sea. And yet, somehow, I enjoy it - after the first few sips, anyway. Though maybe I'm just convincing myself I like it so I don't feel bad about the price. Next time, though, I'll buy an old standby, like Macallan or Glenlivet, or Knob Creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, over at Making Light, there was a discussion about making a flu-preparedness package for yourself (back when bird flu seemed like it was mere days from killing us all). During a mini-discussion of cough medicines, I remembered something the school nurse used to give me for asthma, back when I was seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}