Forget Mojitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

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Forget Mojitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:40pm

Sorry Dame. There's a new drink in town and it has my name on it!

http://www.maria-brazil.org/caipirinha.htm

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Updated On: 5/3/05 at 04:40 PM

#2

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:42pm

They're a lot easier to make than mojitos too. And YUMMMY!!!!

#3

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:43pm

I've been a fan of the caipirinha for quite some time....

#4

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:44pm

That sounds absolutely delicious... and dangerous!

Makes me want to go to Rio...

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#5

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:44pm

tee hee

#6

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:46pm

They taste like lime punch. And they are dangerous. Cachaca is 80 proof and really hits you like a ton of bricks. Very refreshing and perfect for the coming months!

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#7

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:46pm

Love Caipirinha. It is my Thursday night treat! Might not be able to wait now. Cheers!

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#8

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:47pm

I fell in love with them when a hunky Brazilian bartended started mixing them for me a few years ago - I was very glad I had learned portuguese in college - he gave me all sorts of attention and lots of caipirinhas! Just thinking about watching him muddle those limes makes me thirsty again.

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#9

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:47pm

Beav - isn't that normal. Every night I have trouble pronouncing G-I-N.

#10

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:47pm

I've been drinking these since last summer, losers.

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#11

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:48pm

try three summers ago, rath....

#12

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:49pm

That is probaly when Craig fell in love wwith them too. When a hunky Brazilian insisted he have one.

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#13

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:49pm

MOJITO

M-O-J-I-T-O

#14

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:52pm

Well, I wasn't going to play *that* game, but....


.....been drinking them since summer '98 when my friend married a Brazilian!! They're divorced now, but I kept the recipe

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re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:52pm

Try since 1996, when I was introduced to them (inexplicably) in Florence, Italy. Yum yum yum.

Haven't had one in years though. Caiphiroscas are also yummy (same but with vodka also added).

When they are made with Sugar in the Raw they are phoenom.

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#16

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:52pm

Perhaps it was a Brazilian Chiquita with a Brazilian...

Actually. I was at a birthday party over the weekend and it was introduced to me. I'm not a big drinker, so I'm not on the cutting edge of what's "trendy". I also don't like to be trendy lol. But the drink is refreshing and not overpowering in the alchol-taste department, which of course makes it lethal...

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#17

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:53pm

p.s. DAME.. if you are such a fan, why ya always pushin' the Mojito?

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#18

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:54pm

LETHAL. Hmmm. I think I am going back to Mojitos.

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#19

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:55pm

Craig, our little mutual friend has a much higher tolerance than I do, and is quite talented in the peer-pressure dept. Dangerous, I tell ya. I often don't drink unless I'm with her. Siren.

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#20

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:55pm

Hey, who says you can't be a fan of more than one drink around here Craig.

The way I see it we're all a bunch of raging alkies anyway.

And anyway, is it really that important?


::Cheers to the Caipirinha and Mojito lovers of the world::

#21

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:56pm

I've been out drinking with that mutual friend and she did decent restraint. I mean - we only had two pitchers of Sangria...

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#22

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:58pm

marquise...

We have thousands of wicked threads, a few mojita threads. But until I just posted, have we had any threads about this delicious concoction that so many have been drinking for nearly a decade it appears? No! A tragedy. Where's the respect? lol

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#23

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Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:58pm

Sangria = Spanish Kool Aid

#24

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:58pm

LOL, Craig. She holds it well though. And she's proud of it.

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#25

re: Forget Mohitos - it's all about the Caipirinha

Posted: 5/3/05 at 5:00pm

So, am I the only Caipirinha virgin?

It appears I have been missing out on a special brand of fun.

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