Fruitfly Catching: Round 2, Cooper family shootout
Oct/107
Given that I travel a lot for work, and then also a lot for fun, the fruit fly invasion we all see periodically can some times breed (while I’m gone for weeks on end) into something of a swarm. I’ve long known that sweeter liqueurs (brandies and cognacs are often recommended; simple syrup would probably work just as well, really) attract (and then murder) fruit flies well if left out in a wine goblet, but variety’s the spice of life, so I’m working my way through some likely candidates to determine which booze, well, attracts the most flies.
This first second (I forgot that I already tried Canton v. Cognac v. Armagnac) round compares three of the four Cooper family spirits (I didn’t have any Yvette at the time). The glasses were left out, equidistantly from my sink (the eye of the swarm), for several weeks: long enough that all that remained of the spirit was congealed syrup.
First, we have Daddy Cooper’s Chambord:
Chambord's fly catching ability
Second, we have li’l Bobby Cooper’s St-Germain:
St-Germain's fly catching ability
And, finally, li’l Johnny Cooper’s Domaine de Canton:
Domaine de Canton's fly catching ability
I think we have a clear winner for this round.
Catching fruit flies with booze
Sep/102
We don’t need to go into too many details about it here (RCR prep is non-trivially to blame), but I have something of a fruit fly colony in my house right now. I’m opposed, on various grounds, to anything that ends with -icide, and fruit flies are especially easy pickin’s, but I have enough of them to conduct something of a scientific test.
In round one: Domaine de Canton is 10 times better than crappy brandy, 20 times better than decent Armagnac.
Round two is a Cooper family shoot-out: St. Germain, Domaine de Canton, and Chambord. Winner is the one with a statistically relevantly larger number of fruit flies in the respective wine goblet before I leave for the wilds of Alberta Tuesday afternoon.