Talk:Absinthe spoon

Copyright issues
The serving instructions section appears verbatim on an absinthe vendors site and is most likely copyrighted, thus it has been removed. Besides there is already instructions on the absinthe page. Ari 02:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Stub
I'm not sure I see this page becoming anything more than a stub unless someone wants to research the history of the absinthe spoon such as when and why it came about and its use in advertising.Ari 02:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Fire?
In a snippet of a documentary on Absinthe I watched a few years ago, the "ritual" was a bit different in that it consisted of melting the cube through heat rather than water. The absinthe (probably with added water) was filled into the glass, then the spoon with the sugar was placed above it and the cube was drenched in a bit absinthe (via pouring), then lit on fire (because of the high alcohol content), which would result in the characteristically coloured ethanol flame. Any sources for this procedure? I remember them showing this as well, so it's apparently possible. -- Ashmodai


 * Possibly worth noting. The ritual you describe is often called the "czech method" and was invented in the 1990s.  There are a number of different variations on the burning sugar cube theme some use a normal spoon, others the slotted spoon.  In some variations the cube is dropped into the absinth, setting it on fire then water is poured till it goes out. -- Ari 16:34, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Absinthiana
I started the Absinthiana page to encompass not only absinthe spoons but other items as well. I copied over part of the absinthe spoon page. In general the Absinthiana page needs some work and any additions would be nice. Anyone against turning this into a redirect to that page? -- Ari 22:31, 6 November 2006 (UTC)