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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 15, 2012 at 10:25pm

You're kidding! (Scratch that, I forgot, you're British.) I'm impressed - that was good! I'm more of a prose writer, having written only a couple of pieces of poetry in my life. Once, in a drunken stupor (my favorite kind) I contemplated the similarities between the words, "tortoise" and "porpoise," and came up with,

The Purple Porpoise

If a tortoise
Is a turtle,
Is a porpoise,
A purple?
If not,
Why not?

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 16, 2012 at 12:05am

OK, so here's the thing - once I learn the meaning of a word not in my birth language, it ceases to be "babble" to me, and becomes a real word. I learned (from a TV show) as early as the '60's (which I recall as 'through a glass darkly'), that "Strega," in Italian, means, "witch" - therefore, I add such modifiers as, "La Stega," or "Lady la Strega," simply because you seem like a nice lady, and when I call you simply, "Strega," I feel I should be screaming the word, pointing accusingly, and carrying a torch, and I just don't feel that your apparent temperament deserves that treatment.

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Permalink Reply by Molly Brown-Fuller on October 16, 2012 at 12:36pm

Strega is also a rather delicious Italian liquor. If you like oranges, that is. 

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 16, 2012 at 1:01pm

She said, in an earlier comment on another thread, that that's where she got the name, while spending time in Italy.

Is it a bit like Cointreau, a triple-sec? Sounds like it would be good in coffee. I've also used a blender and vanilla icecream to make liqueur milkshakes - sure, they're fattening, but after a few, you don't care.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on October 16, 2012 at 8:28pm

I think Galliano is probably the most famous brand name strega-type liquor available in the U.S. 

If you like Harvey Wallbangers, strega (typically Galliano) is one of the main ingredients.

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Permalink Reply by Strega on October 16, 2012 at 9:37pm

Thanks Unseen, I hadn't compared the two, and you are right, they do have similarities.  But Strega is kind of deeper somehow.  In my mind, anyway :)

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on October 16, 2012 at 11:36pm

I think in a way we're both right. There is a Liquore Strega as a brand name, but strega is also a style of liqueur, and Galliano is classified as a liquer in the strega style. Liquore Strega and Galliano are similar but different, as you observed, but both are strega style liqueurs. 

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on October 17, 2012 at 12:57am

Minor observation, does discussing causation some how map to liqueur consumption?

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Permalink Reply by Strega on October 16, 2012 at 9:18pm

Why yes it is, Molly, yes it is :)

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Permalink Reply by Strega on October 16, 2012 at 9:19pm

Arch! You just don't want to be known as cavorting with witches, you old charmer :)

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 16, 2012 at 10:53pm

I've been accused of doing far worse, but so far, no convictions --

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on October 16, 2012 at 12:16am

(See, you replace the "t's" in "tortoise" with "p's," and you get, "porpoise" and "purple" - just in case you hadn't figured it out. I usually present this with green "t's" and purple "p's," but it's such a hassle to manipulate the HTML to make that happen, so I didn't do it) - and that's the truth

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