sf wrote on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:31:56 -0800:

??>> But according to Sheldon, "the cheapest and nastiest
??>> vodka" is fine, and if you buy anything else for mixed
??>> drinks, you are a fool. You mean Sheldon is wrong?

s> If you can cover up the taste (like in a White Russian), why
s> not? I'd save the better stuff for when I can actually
s> taste the vodka.

Since a blind test has already established that the preferred
vodka of an expert panel was diluted USP alcohol, what is the
taste of a better vodka?

However, I think I have mentioned that the only vodka I really
like is pepper vodka made and kept in the freezer by steeping a
dried hot pepper in the cheapest vodka that I can find :-) If
you like pepper vodka, it is hard to buy and what Absolut calls
Peppar Vodka is obviously made with green sweet peppers.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not