![]() ![]() He looks around but doesn’t see anybody nearby. While he's waiting for the bartender, he hears a little voice saying, "Hey, you look really good today is that a new suit?" Someone orders a drink “for the road” to signal this will be the last drink before traveling home.Ī guy walks into a bar and sits down on a stool. He says to the bartender, "I'll have the usual and one for the road."Įxplanation: Someone who regularly drinks at the same bar is called a “regular.” Because he comes so often, all the employees know his “usual” drink. A three-legged dog is obviously missing one leg the word for a dog’s foot is “paw.”Ī regular walks into a bar, sits down, and pulls out a piece of asphalt. dialects, the word for father is Pa (or Paw). The bartender was referring to a minty-sweet, green alcoholic drink (crème de menthe and white crème de cacao) called a “grasshopper.”Ī three-legged dog walks into a saloon and says, “I’m looking for the man that shot my paw.”Įxplanation: A common theme in cowboy movies is revenge hunting: looking for justice after one’s relative was killed. Below are some of my favorites, along with explanations. This makes the bar a perfect setting for strange encounters and funny stories. If you stay there long enough, you will see all kinds of people walk in. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.Bars, taverns, and pubs have long been places where people go to meet friends, socialize over alcoholic drinks, and forget about their troubles. “ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. It is sharing of these moments of good food, good wine but above all good friends that marks the best in life… even sharing those groan-filled dad jokes. I had to admit to never having tasted either corvina or rondinella so a trip to Murrumbateman is on the cards. So dear reader, get some in quick before Bryan sells out this vintage.īryan tells me that he now makes 18 different wines but the majority are Italian-based grape varieties including some wines that are not within the popular lexicon: corvina, montepulciano, fiano, primitivo (zinfandel) and rondinella. We have released the 2018 now, from March.” We make close to 1500 cases and they sell out within months. Doing Malaysian food, he doesn’t need to do wine, so it’s good that he’s chosen this one. “Abel has had it on the wine list for a long time as he thinks it goes well with the style of cooking he adopts. ![]() This wine doesn’t need a big block of meat to go with it, it can take Asian vegetables. “Abel’s food is sort of left field for sangiovese but I made it to go well with savoury food, particularly because of the acidity and fine tannins. “My background in cooking, I used to be a chef, meaning that this was the first variety I planted,” he said. I asked him if he had made the sangiovese as a food wine rather than a quaffer. I called Bryan feeling guilty about disturbing him during harvest, but he told me he was already at the bottling stage. My friends murmured praise for the balance in the wine, a good mixture of fruit and savoury with a very clean, lightly tannic finish. And that I knew Bryan from when I worked with him as a writer for another journal. I mentioned to my friends that Bryan Martin, the owner and winemaker at Ravensworth, is also the winemaker at Clonakilla, the vineyard that carries the Canberra district’s shiraz viognier as a flagship wine. It complemented the chilli lamb and the duck dish. I saw a website where it was retailing at $28 but with the clear indication it had sold out at that price. At $49.90 a bottle in the restaurant, it is not cheap. I suggested that we order this wine not only because of its extraordinary compatibility with Asian food, but to show off some of the best wine from the region. The Ravensworth 2017 sangiovese was the local wine of choice. We decided to have dinner where spicy food prevailed given the autumnal night temperatures and we went to Abel’s Kopi Tiam at Manuka. Wow says the barman, I have never in my life before served a weasel, what can I get you? Elevated by this reaction he says: “Oh, what about this one, it’s better:Ī weasel walks into a bar. Okay, so my mate doesn’t get it until, excruciatingly, I explain it by reference to what termites eat… wood, the bar. So, see how cryptic you think it is: Richard Calver.Ī termite walks into a bar and says: Where’s the bartender? They are amongst a number who haven’t connected with my latest “walk-into-a-bar joke”. TWO Sydney friends arrived for a sojourn. ![]()
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