With flu season upon us and people keeling over like characters from Stephen King's The Stand, it's time to fight back, not with a shot, but with a spoonful of sorbet filled with a concoction that will thoroughly kick influenza's ass (well, probably not but at least it'll taste good pretending it will).
Created by the Ohio-based ice cream company Jenis Splended Ice Creams, this whopper of a flu-kicker is an old family recipe that combines Marker’s Mark bourbon,cayenne pepper, ginger, honey and orange and lemon juices that will (according to their website)...clear nasal passages, ease a sore throat, and soothe the body. It’s modeled on the home remedy my mother and grandmother made when anyone in the family was under the weather. Sniffles, aches, and fevers meant one thing: a mug of hot whiskey with honey and lemon juice, then straight to bed.
(Damn, and to think I only got a shot of NyQuil and shoved back into my room so I wouldn't contaminate the other family members).
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