I've had a jar of coffee and you can't stop me from sleeping all weekend

[venta]

I am a big fan of mint milkshakes. They are, however, tricky to find. Java, the internet café in Whitby, sells them. I found a stall at Glastonbury that sold them. But that's it.

A while back, I bought some peppermint oil from Culpeper's. I wondered if a few drops, mixed with milk, would be nice.

It wasn't.

It really, really wasn't. It was all the bad stuff mint can be: harsh, and bitter, and making the back of your throat feel like someone was blowing freezing cold air down it. I suspect I put too much in (though it was only a few drops). But I don't think it'd be nice even if you got the quantities right.

Don't do it, kids. I've gone back to the banana Nesquik.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I reckon you need that Sirop de Menthe stuff you can buy in France: you know, where it comes in a cylindrical container with a green lid in the centre of the top, and you can buy blackcurrant, strawberry, aniseed and almost every other flavour you can think of as well. That stuff is very sweet, and I'm sure it would be delicious with milk. (If, y'know, you liked milk, which I personally don't).

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Actually that wouldn't be very nice, I suspect - you'd end up with something a lot like toothpaste !

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nope, I think purple_pen might be right. Certainly the stuff which Java uses to make them is the same as the flavoured syrups (sirops?) that they put in coffee. Which is green, in the case of mint :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with the exact stuff in that packaging, but that does sound very like what I want. But I don't really want to go to the bother of ordering stuff on line, and I've yet to locate somewhere from where it can be bought!

(Incidentally, did your parcel-ling arrive OK ? I never trust the PO these days.)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I've never really seen it on sale here, or I'd be buying it regularly! I guess it's a case of begging someone who's going to France to bring you some back so you can try it out.

Yes, the parcel did arrive safely: thanks so much for the lovely thought! You should be getting a thank-you card for it any day now, but I still have a few left to write.

[(Anonymous)]

I even found a place in teh UK that looked like they were selling it online, but it turned out that they had put the wrong picture on their page. It is just a case of getting someone to come back from France with some. My friends are always confused when what I want from their booze cruise is Sirop de Menthe.

The Schwepps pepermint cordial that you can get in this country is just wrong. It might do well in cocktails, but never with water or milk.

David