Pros: pretty blue bottle- find an empty one if you want one that bad
Cons: lethal- affects you severely one-day-and-not-as-badly-the-next, smooth and deadly, hits HARD and unexpectedly
The Bottom Line: Beguiling with a beautiful blue bottle, this spirit is deadly. Unpredictably crippling one day and not the next, this vodka is best avoided.
....The fine maiden turns to see an old woman holding out a frosted glass of the most alluring turquoise blue beverage.
She walks slowly toward the woman, her eyes riveted upon the pretty crystal glass bathed in sparkling blue liquid.
" But, m'am, most things of the color blue have a harsh synthetic flavor. I think I will not partake."
She turns to go, but the attractive old woman with a beautiful hat crowned with flowers speaks smoothly to her, "Oh, no, my pretty, this is the finest blue beverage you will taste. It is smooth and pleasing to the palate. Please try just one sip and see that I am telling the truth."
The maiden turned back again and looked wistfully at the glittering blue liquid. " Perhaps, just one taste."
She slowly raised the glass to her ruby red lips. She carefully took a sip. "Why, this is the best drink I have ever had!" she exclaimed taking the glass in both of her hands. She sipped again and again marveling at the smooth way the liquid slid down her throat. She barely noticed the old woman departing, let alone the wisps of ratty snarled hair escaping from her hat, or the gloves that now showed the wrinkly green skin of her bony old arms.
The fair maiden held out her glass and asked for yet another sip of this alluring smooth drink and the old woman took a sapphire blue bottle and poured a thick clear liquid into the glass. "This time you do not need any flavoring. You can drink this plain, it is so smooth," she cooed.
The maiden eagerly ingested the thick clear liquid. "Why, I feel wonderful, I think I shall have more," she said.
But as she walked quickly toward the spot where the old woman once stood, she fell to the ground, losing control of her senses. She felt sick to her stomach, as if her internal organs would explode and be ejected from her body. As the darkness of unconsciousness rapidly descended on her, she heard a high pitched cackling fading off into the distance......
Okay, you hear this story, and if you are still with me, you are probably wondering what this has to do with anything - especially with Skyy Vodka.
I will tell you what it has to do with it. It is merely a richly enhanced tale of what I have observed about that poisonous liquid that comes in the beautiful deceiving blue bottle called Skyy Vodka.
The first time I saw the blue bottle, I was intrigued. Surely such a pretty blue bottle had to house some kind of tolerable beverage. I never bought any though, as I tend not to indulge in hard liquor often. I was interested in the claim that it was ultra purified, since we are very concerned about food and beverage quality. Supposedly, the Skyy vodka was made by a man who was concerned about the bad residue left in the body after consuming most vodkas(aka. headache or hangover). This stuff was to be the resulting new and improved vodka.
It was at a wonderful little avant garde restaurant where my first introduction to this seductive little poison occurred. I was intrigued by their featured drink called the "blue martini". They had Skyy vodka in it and a little blue curacao for color in it. I had it on ice. It was a very big drink and I enjoyed it thoroughly. The smoothness with which this beverage caressed my throat as it went down was very nice.
The flavor was hard for me to describe, but it is close to say that it has a sweet, yet acrid flavor. A tiny bit of a licorice effect, but not overpowering. It lacked that overpowering alcohol taste that is present in most other vodkas. The kind that makes you blink and shake your head if you drink it too quickly. Overall, the smooth quality was what made it enjoyable. It made me want more. But I did not have any more.
A while later, we were out on a date (my husband and I) when I decided to try a regular martini with Skyy in it. I had not stopped thinking about it since that Blue Martini, so I finally had to try it again. My husband had an Absolut martini, and the taste in comparison- well, Skyy won hands down. It was so SMOOTH and delightful- slightly sweet, a trace of licorice without that slamming grain alcohol effect. It smells like other vodkas, but the taste is quite tamer and interesting with that anise like dimension.
I had another while engaged in a wonderful conversation over a couple of hours. Ordinarily I would have felt very little effect from that few drinks over such a long time. And I WAS fine- until we decided to leave and got out to our car, then it hit me. I have never felt so sick in my life. I mean deathly ill. I have had food poisoning before and that was not as bad as this reaction to the SKYY.
I tried to excuse it. Surely it could not have been the Skyy- after all, it had not affected me that way before. I was so sick that it took me a whole day to recover. NOTHING has ever affected me like this. I blamed the food. The night. My frame of mind.
Amazing what you will do to excuse something you want to believe is good....
I came here to this section in EPINIONS and noticed that there were a lot of people really into this stuff and it was highly rated. THERE- YOU SEE? I told myself that I was right.
Then came that bothersome lengthy review by a woman - kmennie- that bashed Skyy badly and virtually described my experience and then some about this lethal drink. It disturbed me. I tried to rationalize it away, but I could not. I gave it a low rating just to defend my position, but I let it work on me.
Then came the final straw. My husband (who hates vodka, by the way) was at a dinner with his boss and they bought everyone a drink. There was not much that he could have there, so what do you think he had......A Skyy martini. Ordinarily, he does not drink much at one time of anything and makes a drink go a long while. So nothing affects him much. He had thought that he would be safe with the Skyy martini from past experience.
He had fun with the guys and was ready to leave after a long nice dinner and then he got out to the car. It hit him harder than it did me. He said that he has never been so sick in his life. And it takes a lot for him to FEEL sick. Not even the food poisoning he had affected him like this (we both had it at the same time quite a few years ago)
He was so sick that he had to sleep in the car for 6 hours just to be able to drive home. He was not drunk, just very , very sick. Just like me, he said that all he could think of was that he was going to throw up all of his insides and then some.
Well, it was time to face reality for me. It took my poor husband a whole day and a half to recover from something that should have barely affected him. If you just mention the name SKYY to him, he looks at you with this pained expression and says loudly, "That stuff is vile. It is POISON. There is something LETHAL in that stuff! Never again!!!!"
He is right. There is.
And many thanks to kmennie that had the guts to speak out on this forum about Skyy. She probably saved my life by calling attention to this bewitching and dangerous substance.
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