Word: scotchness
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...boutiques, went out of business. Shelves of imported alcohol have been stripped bare, except for lonely bottles of German alcohol-free wine. The posh Bosco Café in Red Square, Moscow, famous for its cocktails and elaborate wine list, now typically restricts its aperitif offerings to unimaginative gin or scotch, while patrons wash down fish dishes with overpriced Chianti from Bosco's depleted stocks, as no white wine is to be had. Retailers smell a conspiracy. "These are the first steps to reinstate a state monopoly on the alcohol trade," says Vera Nefedova, general manager of Vincroft, a private company...
...sample of etymologist Eric Partridge's "vulgar dictionary" contained the commonest four-letter words, but they were masked with asterisks. The fun came in definitions of such obscure but piquant phrases as Back Gammon Player, Brother of the Gusset, Fire Ship, Irish Whist, Nogging House, Pushing School, Scotch Warming Pan and Whiffles. I suppose they might have raised a giggle from the youth of Olde England or 60s Middle America, but kids of the latter era were getting naughtier word play from Ian Fleming. Remember Pussy Galore...
Thomas, an infamous drunkard, had already had a few beers earlier in the day, Hall says. His reading done, Thomas declared, “I’ve done my serious stuff, scotch will...
Bandar was grim. "Scotch...
...Shipping beer the 4,000 km from Scotland has proved too much of a challenge, though, so the ale is mostly Russian, German and, yes, Irish. But there are Scotch whisky brands aplenty and the menu tries hard to stay on theme. Full Duncan salad (named after the Highlander hero Duncan MacLeod) and Dundee lamb chop are on offer, as is an Orkney Island salad?although the menu acknowledges with disarming honesty that, while the calamari it's made of are very fresh, "O.K. maybe they're not brought in all the way from Scotland...