From: Tavia tavia@btinternet.com
Jacqui asked:
What is the green liquid the characters in B7 drink ?
Water coloured with green food colouring for that essential science fiction feel? (Is absinthe green? I fear my closest encounter with the drink is the eponymous Degas painting...)
I had some Pernod once (which is more or less absinthe without the hallucinogens) and it was kind of yellow IIRC. But in "The Sun Also Rises" the narrator refers to the same drink as "greenish imitation absinthe"-- dunno if that means absinthe is more or less green than Pernod.
In "Gambit" Cally appears to be spooning sugar into the green substance, which might suggest that it *is* absinthe (or meant to be absinthe) cos that seems to be how people in 1920s novels always drink it. But then again, she might have been spooning some other white, grainy substance into a totally different drink.
Then again, maybe they're drinking creme-de-menthe.
Fiona
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