AK 47 Show and Tell

[snorko]

No guns today, but I did score some nice Izzy plums. They go great with a glass of Slivovitz!

Russian mags and Slovenian booze?

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

No guns today, but I did score some nice Izzy plums. They go great with a glass of Slivovitz!

A lot of available goods out there, just the price points are beyond crazy.


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[IUKalash429]

Russian mags and Slovenian booze?

Because of the plums. Plum brandy. Bad joke. And my bottle of slivo here at home is from Serbia.

Živeli

 

[snorko]

Went right over my head. I just checked, my very old half bottle is from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia!

Course 100 proof don't spoil.

 

[IUKalash429]

First time I had slivo was back in college, introduced to some homemade stuff one quiet weekday night with the old timer Polish owner of my favorite dive bar (he later turned me onto Dyngus Day, but that's another story). He pulled out a bottle, took a swig, turned and spit it against the wall. We watched the paint loosen a bit and he started laughing, calling the stuff the best thinner one could ever use as he proceeded to pour me a shot on the house. Stuff was awful, like drinking rancid lava. Rotgut, for sure.

It became an instant tradition that very night, and my buddies and I would toast to damn near everything with it. It was also the "initiation" for our younger siblings or friends from other colleges who'd come to visit. "You want us to buy you beer?" Shot. "You want to crash on our couch?" Shot. You wan- ahh hell, just take a shot."

Twenty years later, we still gift each other bottles when one of us gets married, has a kid, gets divorced, etc. That old Pole is long gone, but his legendary paint thinner definitely lives on.

 

[snorko]

With a proper shot glass

 

[rutheborger]

If my dong was on the other side... I'd be very confused. I wouldn't know if I was coming or going.

These days you can have your dong wherever you want, assuming you have the money to pay for it.

 

[Angrysauce]

With a proper shot glass

If we're on Eastern European liquors check out Pálinka. A friend of mine's wife emigrated from Hungary. She brought a bottle of apricot pálinka in an unmarked corked bottle to dinner one evening.
It tasted like peach ring candies and was lethal. You could slam it down and it would hit you until you tried to stand up.

 

[snorko]

I'm a quarter Hungarian as well as a quarter Slovenian. Genetically geared towards AKs and fruit liquor. In 2019 my father and I took a two week tour of the Hungarian wine regions. Included was a visit to the Palinka Museum in Budapest as well as the factory where they make Unicum. Drank a LOT of Palinka that trip.

It is a tradition to greet visitors with shots of Palinka and pogasca - a small biscuit bread with bacon in the dough. Yep, everywhere we went were offered bacon biscuits and booze. Best. Trip. Ever.

In keeping with the thread, one of the many AKs I regret letting go (SGL-21).

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Anyone get lucky with AOA and the Beryl today?


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[IUKalash429]

Well hell, looks like we're starting a new tradition. I have some maple leaf AK mags, so here's a bottle from Croatia as well...

 

[kawtech87]

Man you all can have that stuff. I've tried it exactly once. Really does taste like lacquer thinner. Yes I've actually tasted lacquer thinner (not on purpose). But being of Irish decent I have no genetic ties to it. I suppose I should be into AR-180s, FALs and Whiskey. AKs and whiskey? Yeah that works.

 

[IUKalash429]

AKs and whiskey? Yeah that works.

Oh that definitely works. Sláinte!

And the IRA had AKs from Libya, so here's another African Kalashnikov, by way of Egypt:

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Greenies came today.


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[KokomoDave]

Where do you guys buy that?
Is there any traditional Polish liquors to avoid? I don't drink but a guy I grew up with does and he's Polish but born in the states.

 

[IUKalash429]

Where do you guys buy that?
Is there any traditional Polish liquors to avoid? I don't drink but a guy I grew up with does and he's Polish but born in the states.

There are a fair amount of Slivovitz brands from a number of countries available stateside. I've had liquor stores special order particular brands for me before, but I know the Total Wine in Indy carries some Czech slivo, and Kahn's here has the Serbian variety. Might be worth calling around to the shops in your area.

 

[KokomoDave]

There are a fair amount of Slivovitz brands from a number of countries available stateside. I've had liquor stores special order particular brands for me before, but I know the Total Wine in Indy carries some Czech slivo, and Kahn's here has the Serbian variety. Might be worth calling around to the shops in your area.

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[AllenM]

Just finished successful test fire. Now back apart for Cerakoting.

 

[KokomoDave]

First family photo! Yup, all loaded! Nope, no-one can get into my armory!! 4 of them came from INGO trades or purchases!!!

 

[Expat]