How To Drink Vodka, Have You Tried It?

[Khandro]

The correct approach, I have learnt from a Russian; (Zinovy Zinik) " The ritual of consuming vodka is a special kind of yoga with its own system of breathing, you breathe deeply, gulp down an entire glassful and then, still holding your breath, take a bite of something salty (pickled cucumber or salted herring, etc.) then you let the air out of your lungs".
I have been experimenting for the last hour and can confirm his veracity :0)

[Mamyalynne]

Are you still able to stand?

[wolf63]

You been left 'home alone' ?

[anneasquith]

so just how drunk are you ? :)

[Jackdaw33]

He can't be drunk if he's able to spell veracity.

[tonyav]

Don't forget that after downing the vodka in one gulp that your supposed to throw the empty glass at the fire place. Russian tradition !.

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe he meant to type 'elasticity' Jackdaw.

[retrocop]

Khandro
Much obliged to our old 2nd WW war allies on their advice as how to imbibe Vodka, I will have a bloody Mary when our friends threaten to nuke us. It deadens the pain as you are vapourised. :-)

[Mamyalynne]

^ Cheerful to the end.

[douglas9401]

"so just how drunk are you ? :)"

Verging on hospitalisation if the pickled cucumber and salted herring's anything to go by. :)

[Khandro]

I didn't want to confuse folk last night by continuing with the directions, but Zinik continues with a 'second system' which is the opposite; "You breathe out, emptying your lungs, gulp down the full glass and take a bite of the pickle while holding your breath. No one has so far proved which of the systems is more efficient. With the third glass, the drinker achieves a state of bliss, true paradise. The sensation does not last long however, and all the glasses that follow are attempts to regain the paradise-of-the-third-glass lost." !!!

[gingejbee]

Having travelled a lot in the USSR (way back), I dispute the "entire glassful"....entire bottle, yes!

[thugulike]

I was taught the correct way to drink vodka in Siberia many years ago. It's true, I remember drinking vast amounts of er home made vodka and never had a hangover

[Khandro]

gingejbee; Did you encounter the 'pickle method' ? It, according to Zinovy Zinik, seems to be something we have been completely unaware of, and I have wondered in the past why so many jars of pickled gherkins come from the east.

[mrs_overall]

Does anyone remember a brief fad in the 1980's for pouring vodka into your eye?

[whiskeryron]

Can anyone explain to me why (the taste of Vodka being so awful you have to immediately gulp something else down,) you don't just leave out the Vodka ?

[Jackdaw33]

Vodka distilled in this country tastes nothing like authentic Russian vodka which can easily be drunk neat.

[Khandro]

I'm accompanying my pickles for purposes of this experiment, with Moskovskaya - Premium Russian Vodka, it's smooth, clean and slides down the throat like god in silver breeches :0)