>>>But I'm not selling :). You'll have to accept a freebie from my still. Plum, apple, sour cherry (but the brandy isn't!), early tuttifrutti, late tuttifrutti, peach, apricot?
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>>>That is, if I ever visit the US again. I've had enough humiliation over the visa already, there's simply not enough incentive to go through that again. And then the TSA... pick another place.
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>>An awesome invitation!
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>>I get over to Timisoara Romania every several years.
>>Seems you are close?
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>Just 100km WSW from there.
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>>Your still sounds like the Serbian version of Palinka?
>>No doubt better :)
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>The pálinka is the hungarian word for it; romanian would be ţuica (tsuika). We call it rakija, but mostly each kind has its own name, derived from the fruit. Except that for višnjevača (the sour grape brandy) it takes some explanation: "it's not bad brandy into which you throw a bunch of sour cherries to fix the taste, it's the brandy FROM sour cherries", because the same word describes both.

Thanks for the linguistic education.
I became aware of it when my Romanian friend's buddy, a farmer, kept disappearing behind his barn to sell pálinka to his other visitors :)
I wonder if it was more profitable than his chickens and pigs?