If they’re putting it gin bottles, that could happen.
I’ve used sanitizers that smelled like they used an off-batch of rye as their base.
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have they checked ebay?
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Unfortunately in Northern Ontario, drinking it is an everyday occurrence, so we need to be really cognizant of what hand sanitizers contain. Dry reserves and hugh alchohol prices drive people towards whats cheap and available, which leads deaths due to mislabelled hand sanitizer containing methanol instead of just pure ethanol every few months. I’d guess that’s the meaning behind industrial grade vs maybe food grade
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I can’t place exactly what. But it’s very similar to standardized boating safety signage and buoy markers. Where as signal flags are more colored rectangles or triangles with stripes and crosses.
It’s something like a diamond shape is a warning/no boats. Squares are navigation info and circles are caution or shit like speed limits. A circle with a boxed X is something, just can’t remember what.
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I didn’t say it was an Iron Cross. Maybe I should have written “has some vague similarities”.
I repeat, you better avoid any allusion if you name anything SS something something. Better still: don’t. Just don’t. You will just attract attention you would not have wanted.
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Yeah well maybe no.
The bottle symbol commemorates the company flag and flew on that ship from 1882 so dubious connection with the colour of the Nazi flag may be a result of too much imbibing of hand sanitizer.
The Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Company Flag
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The handle “ActuallyARegular” is not by any chance a play on – forgive me – “Actually Irregular”?
Don’t get me wrong: I like aloe. (Also, I have devoted my life to never again having near-fatal constipation for weeks on end.)
I’ll bet aloe makes great margaritas! and as my inner empiricist is forever externalizing – “Only one way to find out!”
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It designates a steam ship
It’s not commonly used on actual ships these days. But it’s well understood enough to be a boat thing that media often appends it to any and all boats. Like the SS Minnow from Gilligan’s Island.
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I almost bought some of the hand sanitizer from a local distillery, but it was $7 for a smallish bottle (6 oz?). I bought some isopropyl alcohol as a cheap but less convenient substitute for use after pumping gas. Worked great until the dog knocked the entire bottle over in the car and the fumes were terrible for the next 3 days.
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No! No WAY! I didn’t know that!
WHOA, it also is an abbreviation of the Secret Service.
And “Casino” also is a place to play around in! What a mess!
All those words! Why don’t they have just ONE clear meaning?
/s, and sorry to both @Ryuthrowsstuff, @ludd and @knappa. Not meant personally. I simply could not resist.
Just to clarify, if anyone actually didn’t catch what I was trying to say: an SS-Casino was the mess of a Schutzstaffel regiment. German speakers of a certain age and/or political inclination will certainly notice. You do NOT want that latter people buying your spirit.
ETA. @karl_jones:
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Not at all. I had in mind the aloe drinks you find in Asia. I figured since Aloe was from the southwest, it would make a fine additive, and enjoyed the texture it gave.
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Just means it doesn’t meet FCC (Food chemicals codex) regs. There aren’t any particular impurities that it definitely has, but there may be low levels of heavy metals or carcinogens that prevent it from being safe for applying to human skin.
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IIRC the big one with ethanol is high levels of methanol and heavier fusel alcohols which can be pretty nasty if consumed beyond a certain concentration. If it’s not meant for human consumption you may not be seperating heads and tails or watching to make sure that stuff doesn’t concentrate in any given package.
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This new hand sanitizer I got from Quiktrip smells like moonshine.
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does hand sanitizer pour the same way Gin does? did they not notice it was a bit thick?
maybe they just drank it straight out of the bottle, maybe that was the issue?
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A lot of the ad hoc products are thinner and smell like vodka.
It also seems only one person drank any.
Savor this fine sample from Ian Fleming’s Moonraker (1955), as Bond and M begin their meal at the latter’s exclusive club, Blades:
“Ah, Grimley, some vodka, please.” He turned to Bond. “Not the stuff you had in your cocktail. This is real pre-war Wolfschmidt from Riga. Like some with your smoked salmon?”
… When M. poured him three fingers from the frosted carafe Bond took a pinch of black pepper and dropped it on the surface of the vodka. The pepper slowly settled to the bottom of the glass leaving a few grains on the surface which Bond dabbed up with the tip of a finger. Then he tossed the cold liquor well to the back of his throat and put his glass, with the dregs of the pepper at the bottom, back on the table.
M. gave him a glance of rather ironical inquiry.
“It’s a trick the Russians taught me that time you attached me to the Embassy in Moscow,” apologized Bond. “There’s often quite a lot of fusel oil on the surface of this stuff-at least there used to be when it was badly distilled. Poisonous. In Russia, where you get a lot of bath-tub liquor, it’s an understood thing to sprinkle a little pepper in your glass. It takes the fusel oil to the bottom. I got to like the taste and now it’s a habit. But I shouldn’t have insulted the club Wolf-schmidt,” he added with a grin.
Book Bond is very, very different from film Bond. Read Moonraker. I’ll say no more.
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Hand sanitizer is, per volume, still at least 5 times as expensive as gin, at least online - I haven’t dared go into a pharmacy lately…
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For more info on S.S. Casino:
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