Saturday, August 30, 2008

On opening a new bottle of Springbank 10-year scotch

Imagine the Loch Ness monster binging on a box of Turkish Delight sweetened with aspartame, taking a nap, and then unleashing a mean piss on a new bar of Ivory Soap. Now imagine deep-throating that bar of soap.
This is what Springbank tastes like.

2 comments:

Carla said...

The thing is: it's actually kind of good.

Thi N said...

I like this description very much.

It reminds me of the piece of food writing I am the proudest of. Not the most florid or complex, but the the most brutally accurate.

Writing of a certain northern chinese noodle soup, that was full of oil and cumin and cheap ground meat that had been thrice-fried and redredged in oil and spice and chile, I said: "I think this is what dog food tastes like to a dog."