Kathy Lette: fireball sambuca
Aussies have a sense of humour drier than an AA clinic. But it’s the only dry thing about us. We do love a tipple. And why not? In this hot weather, doctors maintain it’s vital to keep up your fluids.
View image in fullscreen Kathy Lette, aged 17, while performing in a duo called The Salami Sisters. ‘We sang about meaty issues’
Spumante was my first alcoholic discovery – although spewmanti would be a more appropriate description. I got so horrifically drunk on this sickly sweet, sticky beverage aged 13 that I didn’t drink again till I was 18.
By then, the drink du jour was the fireball sambuca. The sambuca arrived in a shot glass, decorated with three coffee beans, representing health, wealth and happiness. But what the flaming sambuca inevitably represented – as the booze was set ablaze – was flambéed eyebrows and singed nostril hair.
To drink the fireball sambuca, you must always extinguish the flame first.
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