Booze?

I'll grab another to try and even things up a bit if you want.
Anything for a mate.

 

I seem to be ahead in this week's stupid **** stakes.

 

Only IRL, which counts for nothing on here.

 

Why's that?

 

Crashing the gixxer.

 

So that's only 3/2 to me - keep going Ben, you'll get there
;-)

Or maybe we could count it as a *whooosh* of Champs?

 

That too, why not!

 

And coloured blue.....

 

Err, no. Triple Sec is the generic term for a liqueur of which
Cointreau is a specific brand.

http://www.webtender.com/db/ingred/213

Depends what brand you get. Obviously there's some variation between
manufacturers.

 

he's thinking of Curacao, the senile old ****.

 

Which is also triple sec, of course.

 

"is also /a/ triple sec" is more accurate, because it helps identify
that there exists a generic triple sec in its own right (the Bols one,
probably).

 

Eh? 'Generic' implies that the product can be made/packaged/sold by
anyone who so desires. There are several well-known brands selling
product simply as 'brand X triple sec', as well as the others, like
Cointreau and Grand Marnier, who just market it under their own brand
names.

 

yes, yes, yes - I meant "eponymous", not "generic". I always think of
the Bols-branded "triple sec" as Triple Sec, IYSWIM.

 

Noting, of course, that Bols Blue is labelled as curacao...

 

well, yes.

Slightly more confusingly, you can get "Curacao" that /isn't/ blue.

 

Indeed.

<Wanders sadly back to mug of Horlicks>

 

No. It's not. Find it, post the link.

 

Rubbish. All of the various brands capitalise the name on the bottle.

Nope, the XXX is the full brand name. Triple Sec, capitalised or not,
is the type of product, very much like you might get Gordon's,
Gilbey's, Simian's or whatever other brand of gin.

Nope, it'd be like him saying he had both Glenmorangie and Whisky.

Or Bols. In fact, I'd think that one the most common by far.