Okay, not Alka-Seltzer.
I've just finished reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and, right before something beastly happens, the title character offers someone a hock-and-seltzer. As a snobbish wine drinker I thought the idea sounded rather like a boorish method of ruining German wine, but the more I thought about it the more interesting it became. It seemed more like poor man's champagne than something "society" ought to be drinking. I had to try it.
Due to my generally high rate of susceptibility to suggestion I immediately went out and purchased the cheapest* bottle of Hock I could find, shaped like a cat no less, and added some club soda to it.
Ta-da!Not sure what to make of it really. Watered down sparkling wine comes to mind... But it's definitely not the season for cool refreshing drinks, and that is what hock-and-seltzer is probably meant to be. However, the experiment has got me thinking that I should probably be adding seltzer to virtually every cold drink I can imagine. So I guess I like bubbles well enough?
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*Actually no - I was bamboozled. As it turns out, the kitsch kitty-chimney-bottle-thingy only holds 500ml, not the traditional 750ml. Curses!
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