Fever-Tree tonic water

I just went and googled that up, and, hmmmm...intriguing. We're making faint efforts chez Zmayhem to eat and drink a little better, and it's been bugging me that most of the drink mixers have HFCS in them.

Not finding much for grenadine, though. Just one bartender's blog recommending Torani pomegranate syrup as a good HFCS-free decent-tasting substitute.

eta: And another blog commenter recommends just making your own. It sounds ridiculously simple: 1 part POM pomegranate juice, 1 part (or less, per your taste) superfine sugar, mix until sugar is melted (I guess you could use simple syrup instead), keeps basically forever in the fridge.

Isn't the alcohol kind of a given in Scotland, or is that just my extended family?

The Scots-Irish side of my family is mostly teetotalers except for me (well, in theory if not in practice) and the one family drunk. But I'd imagine winter in Scotland involves a pretty high blood-alcohol level on average.

I don't think I've ever been put off liquor by getting sick the way I have off fudge, fried fish, and most recently chili. But I think I've only ever been sick or hung over from drinking one time, despite imbibing heavily on occasion.

Thank you for your mighty tolerance genes, distant Irish ancestor!

Aimee, I thought your weekend was going to include breaking and entering. It's not, right?

Not at all!! Wholesome projects like sewing and Girl Scout stuff. Nothing criminal at all!

Nope.

Not at all.

That's the part of the io9 article that's eating at me right now (aside from the link back to us).

I don't understand why it rankles to have a link here. I know that b.org is supposed to be under the radar, so we don't make it a point to go around advertising ourselves, but it's a public site that anyone is free to peruse and join. I feel the same way about my LJ, which is technically public but I don't want real-life people to find. So I understand the "Crap, people are going to come over here" feeling, but I don't understand the "Grrrr, how could she possibly link to a site that was being discussed?" feeling. What's the linking policy?

P-C wins the internets today.

Hurrah! I will treat them well.

gstraley

Maybe his name is Gus T. Raley.

Just doing my part to help out Polter-Cow.

I appreciate it.

I wonder how to ever find out.

I'll be seeing her at the Writers with Drinks Salon on Sunday, probably.

P-C, my personal discomfort with it is just that all the commenters on the io9 article so far are extremely TV Tropes-fannish and loving (which is totally their right, and I don't begrudge them a bit of that; it's not my beautiful cake, but yay them), and so I'm a little wary of possible kerfuffles if their fannishness collides with our bitterness/burnt-outness.

I'm a little wary of possible kerfuffles if their fannishness collides with our bitterness/burnt-outness.

This, pretty much.

As far as internet etiquette, there's nothing wrong with linking to us. But in this particular case, I'd rather she didn't.

I don't understand the "Grrrr, how could she possibly link to a site that was being discussed?" feeling.

People! You know...people! Actually, it weirds me out, more than bothers me. It's nothing like seeing us listed as Joss's official site on the TV Guide crawler. That was a bunch of wrong.

I'm wagering that most people will just click on tvtropes and get lost there for the better part of the day. Nobody would care enough to construct a URL and check us out.

But I bet not that many people clicked on the link when it appeared anyway. TVTropes is definitely the meat of that article.

I don't understand the "Grrrr, how could she possibly link to a site that was being discussed?" feeling.

For my part, it's not necessarily that it's a high-profile link to us (there's more than a couple of people I like who are here because of a high-profile link). It's because the link to us comes in that specific article.

Or possibly I just got all old and cranky somewhere.

As far as internet etiquette, there's nothing wrong with linking to us.

Ah, got it.

But in this particular case, I'd rather she didn't.

That makes sense. This is not the influx we'd want. Although anyone who was really curious could Google anyway. Thankfully, people on the Internet are lazy.

I'm wagering that most people will just click on tvtropes and get lost there for the better part of the day.

That happens.

Thanks for explaining, guys.

I used to not be able to drink tequila except masked in a margarita and then I had good tequila. I don't like cough syrupy drinks and I'm not a huge fan of gin (I do like a gin & tonic w/ lime on a hot hot day though). None of my bad drinking experiences have led to a prohibition of any kind of liquor in my life. Oh...possibly I wouldn't be able to drink a wine cooler. I haven't had occasion to try one in 20+ years though.

You guys have been cracking me up like crazy these last two days. Thank you.