Post #414780 by Herbsaint on Tue, Oct 21, 2008 10:20 PM

*On 2008-10-20 16:38, toofastjim wrote:*in Dick Santiago's notepad, it was spelled "absainthe" - not sure if this was a typo, the way they spelled absinthe back then or the correct spelling of one of the absinthe substitutes.

Something like this:

The post prohibition absinthe substitutes used a number of clever word plays on these type of products in the U.S., so there were several odd spellings back in the day.

[ Edited by: Herbsaint 2008-10-21 22:22 ]