[rescue] withdrawn:: re: absinthe available for rescue'ers ....

[Andrew Weiss]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:31 AM, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>
> I think I have seen Vermouth for sale, here in CA sometime back, which 
> I
> seem to remember that it contains some Thujone in it, although I dunno 
> if
> the Vermouth sold in the US is a different version from the one sold
> back in Europe.
>
Indeed a lot of liquors used to have wormwood in them.. Things like 
Pernod and perhaps even Benedictine.

Vermouth actually comes from the word Wermut which means wormwood.

Vermouth in the US contains no wormwood.

Andrew