Happy Hour [11/6/21]

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11/6/21 Hannibal 31

S’mores, the quintessential summer treat, or overrated snack? Are you a traditionalist with the Graham cracker, Hershey’s bar, and marshmallow? Or creative with your base and fillings? How do you feel about S’mores flavored beverages, cookies, and cakes?

I know Deadsplinters have a lot of feelings about things so let’s hear ’em! Then reward yourself with this S’mores Old Fashioned.

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31 Comments

  2. i have no opinion for ive never had smores
    over here the quintesential anytime of year snack is bitterballen (they are delicious with a drink…but i doubt they’d make for a good drink flavour cookie or cake)

  3. I am not a smore fan but the rest of my family loves them when we have fires.  I am sure at my daughters grad party tonight she will have smores if they don’t get rained out (looking iffy right now, it is raining).  Many brewers make a smore porter, I am not a fan of that either but better than the real thing at least.  The most easily found nationally are from Shiner & Dogfish Head but I would recommend supporting your local brewer of stouts and porters.  Southern Tier made a Creme Brulee Stout that was a very well done beer but a little sweet for me.  That said, I would drink that over any smore beers.

    • I hope your daughter’s party doesn’t get rained out, congrats to her! My daughter had a s’mores bar at a birthday party when she was in middle school. It was a big hit.

  6. I confess to not watching the whole video. The proportion of eyeglasses to face was off and I got kind of fixated on that, well, it’s been a day.
     
    Never ate a s’more. I just don’t get campfires. Sitting around the campfire. Sitting around the fire. It just seems like a waste of wood to me. I’ll sit in my tent with my headlamp and read a book, thanks. Bring me some of those dutch meatball things, thank-you.
     
    But, I am having some scotch, on the rock, a speyside, how fucking fancy, and I’m going to nibble on some semi-sweet chocolate chips out of the fucking bag, that is how I do dessert drinks!

  7. I came into this poised to say “S’mores are dragged down by the marshmallow, which is simultaneously too large and too low-quality to make a truly tasty treat. However, they’re also the thing that make a s’more a s’more.” Possibly use one of the cubic, “elevated” marshmallows in small amounts and you could fix it.
    But then I looked at the graham cracker and the mention of a Hershey bar and, well, it’s all bad. Just like “ants on a log” is bad as food, but fun to make. Perhaps if you deconstructed it by making a square of buttery graham cracker crust, melted a layer of dark Belgian chocolate over it [I also vote to spread a bit of halvah on as well], and then topped it a small layer of light, airy marshmallow fluff torched creme’ brulee style, that could be good. 

  8. …I like an old fashioned…& I could kinda see vanilla/chocolate bitters being a sort of ok combo…but the whole fill-the-glass-with-smoke thing seemed overwrought…& it would matter what kind of wood it was but they don’t make any mention of that…they just char what looks like a wooden coaster which seems dubious…& I don’t know in what world that precariously balanced thing qualifies as garnish for a cocktail & not a side of some sort…or possibly a non-liquid chaser?

    …all in all I think I’ll stick with the…well… old-fashioned old fashioned

    • I like the idea of the smoky flavor but wonder if that would actually work? I don’t have chocolate bitters but if I try this I’ll let you know.

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