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Originally posted by juicylinks
Pernod?
Shit back in the day i used to bartend at thsi fancy joint we had that stuff there. I smelt more like a aniset or black licorice smell.
Hmmm Pernod....
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The stuff you had at the bar was Pernod Pastis, which is legal in the US. The Pernod absinthe is illegal because of the tiny amount of wormwood poison that it contains.
From-
http://www.beerliquors.com/buy/liquors/pastis.htm
"The liqueur that we call pastis is the direct descendant of the infamous absinthe..."