Sundowner...

[DougC]

Poked arond and found this link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J4_...0drink&f=false

Seems like a sundowner is a tody at sunset.

[BoldHighlander]

Poked arond and found this link:

http://books.google.com/books?id=J4_...0drink&f=false

Seems like a sundowner is a tody at sunset.

And I notice in the example given that the gentleman "kept to his 3 whiskies at sundown."

Thanks for the link!

[BoldHighlander]

Came across an interesting tid-bit while reading White Hunters; the golden age of the African safaris, though I don't know if it applies to Sundowners or not.

pg 61:
"All manner of luxuries, including champagne (in preference to wine, which did not travel well on the heads of porters) and caviar, were transported into the wilderness at great cost."

This was around 1904.

Cheers!

[artificer]

pg 61:[/B]
"All manner of luxuries, including champagne (in preference to wine, which did not travel well on the heads of porters) and caviar, were transported into the wilderness at great cost."

This was around 1904.

Cheers!

THAT is how I prefer my camping! Talk about 'roughing it'

[Mike_Oettle]

Basically a sundowner is whatever you prefer to have as the sun hits the horizon.
When I was in the army, and especially when I was on active duty, that was a (small) bottle of beer. (My regiment had a beer ration; during my initial training we were not permitted alcohol.)
Beer time in Owambo was an especially enjoyable aspect of my service there, since we also enjoyed snacks (courtesy of our better halves, who posted them to us from home).
In my parents’ home it was often sherry, port, muscadel (a deliciously sweet fortified wine) or jeripigo (similar).
Regards,
Mike

[Lallans]

Is it Cliff Clavin time again already? Oh well.

As far as Africa and the tropics go... before 1940 or so, quinine was the only effective treatment against malaria and became a traditional mixer in Sundowners as I understand them (quinine was used to make tonic water and inparts the 'interesting' original taste). Of course quinine, when consumed in large quantities, supposedly makes one quite deaf as the years go by.

What?

[Irish Jack O'Brian]

Is it Cliff Clavin time again already? Oh well.

As far as Africa and the tropics go... before 1940 or so, quinine was the only effective treatment against malaria and became a traditional mixer in Sundowners as I understand them (quinine was used to make tonic water and inparts the 'interesting' original taste). Of course quinine, when consumed in large quantities, supposedly makes one quite deaf as the years go by.

What?

I was in Niger in the sixties and had a kerosene refrigerator which could make six ice cubes in 24 hours. Just enough for two gin and tonics! (I can taste the quinine now.) When I forgot to put water in the ice trays one day, I was forced to drink my sundowners HOT. That oversight led to my Third Law of Life: "Always Fill the Ice Trays."

I still came back with malaria.