Conan taking Absinth in Prague

Absinth - evil psychedelic in a bottle. The real stuff is banned from every Western Nation, they sell a weak version without the drug effect.

The real Absinth is fermented with wormwood, the locals rate the individual bottles by the strength of 1. the alcohol content and 2. the wormwood content, the worm wood is 50 times stronger.


This nasty tasting hallucinagenic alcohol, is rumoured to give you horrid hallucinations and nightmares.
Ever wonder why Van Goghs stuff had lots of dismembered parts and is extremely trippy? Well now you know.
You poor the absinth, then dip a spoon full of sugar into the liquid. This you then light and burn until the sugar melts, at this point you dump the sugar into the drink stir quickly, blow the flames out and skull the drink in one hit.
The first shot the two Robs, an unknown participant, and I had sent all of us into convulsive heaves, two of the others made for the toilets in quick time, unable to even stomach the drink - it is that bad.

To the absolute horror of the bar tenders I was drinking Absinth mixed with Red Bull by the end of the night. The shock on their faces as I poured the Absinth into my Redbull can was great fun.


Anyway that night I dreamt that I had millions of fish hooks being placed through my skin and all pulling out in different directions. It is the worst nightmare i have ever had.

I talked to a Kiwi guy and he would drink it every day and wake up his whole hotel screeaming in his sleep from the nightmares.... puzzled I asked him why he still drank it.... because it gets me smashed.

Typical response from an Aussie or a Kiwi

* Kiwi is slang for a New Zealander