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philcore (317

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25 Dec 13 UTC
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i made a batch of wassail tonight

To celebrate the true meaning of Christmas ... Rowdy drinking and insisting that your neighbors feed you and give you drink.

tendmote (100 )
25 Dec 13 UTC

You do that to your neighbors every day though.

Octavious (2802 )
25 Dec 13 UTC

Bit early for Wassail, isn't It? We won't have ours for a few weeks.

tendmote (100 )
25 Dec 13 UTC

i don't drink or do christmas-y things or attend renaissance fairs, therefore i don't know shit about "wassail", but i assume "i made a batch of wassail" has to be said as if gerard butler was saying it in "the 300"

philcore (317 )
25 Dec 13 UTC

I thought it was a Christmas thing. There are carols about it and everything

philcore (317 )
25 Dec 13 UTC

I never saw 300

Octavious (2802 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

With the aid of. Wikipedia it seems that your Wassail is very different from ours. Never heard of carol singing called wassailing before, nor indeed the concept of a batch of wassail.

Ours is all about blessing apple trees for a good harvest. Officially Christian, but has a very pagan look about it

philcore (317 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

@Oct, Not sure who the "your" and "ours" are in your post, this is an English thing going back centuries. So unless you were making a distinction about different parts of England, then it seems to me that they are both yours.

Draugnar (0 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

West England serenades fruit trees, it seems.

Octavious (2802 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

Different parts of England. Wassail, as Draug keenly observes, is all about drinking cider and celebrating apple trees in a night time festival down our way. Carol singing has always just been called carol singing, and I have no idea what a batch of wassail would be. Does it have to be a certain sort of drink?

Draugnar (0 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

Wassail (the drink) is cider mixed with OJ and pineapple juice and then it often gets booze added to it. We had some last night.

Draugnar (0 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

I guess it can be different things but always seems to be apple based as it's primary (probably from Oct's tradition).

Here is one from Food Network.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/wassail-recipe/index.html

Draugnar (0 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/cider-wassail

A non alcoholic recipe similar to what we had last night.

philcore (317 )
26 Dec 13 UTC

I made the one draug posted from alton brown. He hosts a show called "good eats" about the science and history of food and cooking.

I used port instead of Madiera though, because the grocery store I went to didn't have Madiera.

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MitchellCurtiss (164

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24 Dec 13 UTC

Many Normal Diplomacies

I recently won a game and got 90

, so I created 9 new games all entitled "Normal Diplomacy" followed by a roman numeral (I'm up to XII I think). Fell free to join!

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