memes

Reminds me of the time when I was at a really great Easter party where we had a huge fire and roasted a whole pig on a spit.

And more importantly distilled our own plum schnaps with a crazy contraption made out of an enormous pan (1 to 1.5 metres in diameter) filled with water and swimming in that an equally enormous pot filled with the plums and a thermometer at the top attached to some pipes leading to a bowl to collect the schnaps. Two guys watched the thermometer like hawks and adjusted the temperature by either putting more logs on the fire or filling new water into the pan.

I've never drank a more pure alcoholic beverage in my life and recon I never will. It tasted awesome and provided this absolutely clear buzz you can only dream of. The next day I didn't have even a hint of a headache. No hangover whatsoever. It was magical.

It was all in all a very good time with my friends. I had a great party.

So, I debated whether I should tell my mother about it. Distilling your own alcohol is illegal after all, for very good reasons. And she tends to be more on the fearful side. But in the end I decided to tell her anyways because I had such a good time.

And I told her about my initial reluctance to tell her about it. She looked me straight in the eyes and said: "Dude, I'm Norwegian!"

If you don't know, alcohol is very expensive in Norway so basically every Norwegian knows how to distill their own. Of course it's illegal there as well. Probably even more than in Germany. But I bet they even learn in school how to do it. If not from teachers then definitely from other students.