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Contents 1 Southern Potato? 2 Classification Dispute 3 Someone changed it 4 parts of the article.. 5 History of the Recipes

[edit] Southern Potato?

What's "Southern Potato" on the first line of the "History" section of this article? Is that what the liqueur was originally called, or is this an error? ChrisMofNS (talk) 07:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification Dispute

As a very long time SoCo lover, and having just discovered that it no longer says "Orange Liqueur" on the back label, I came to the Wiki site to see what wisdom I might find. It seems not many SoCo lovers have had much input into this Wiki. I can assure you that all SoCo bottles previously were labeled as being an orange liqueur. I no longer collect empty bottles, too old for that now, but if you have an old one around, a photo of the back label uploaded on here would solve a lot of argument.

Are you sure its peach flavoured? I can't recall ever seeing that on the package or even it vaguely tasting that way.

Ah, its been changed to caramel flvoured. Perhaps I should clarify; I don;t think it contains any flavourings, so would it not be better to say "with a flavour akin to...."

It is liquer...it says so right on the bottle...and it does contain caramel (again, right on the bottle). One thing that the bottle does not claim that it is, however, is whiskey.

I work at a bartending school, Southern Comfort is NOT a whiskey, it is NOT even a liquor. It is classified as a liqueur and it does state this on the bottle. It is Peach and Whiskey FLAVORED but again it is NOT a whiskey like Seagram's 7 is.

[edit] Someone changed it

The article originally stated that it was a liqueur and not whiskey. I have reverted it back to that version. --One Salient Oversight 09:51, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The website says:

Enjoy your moment responsibly. Southern Comfort Company, Louisville, KY ©2004. Liqueur, 21-50% Alc. by Volume

So it's a liqueur.

--One Salient Oversight 10:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Where can you find information saying that it's nuetral spirits based and not bourbon based? I've always heard that it was based on bourbon.

• So did I. But when I went to the website I found otherwise. If Southern Comfort is a Bourbon then the company who mkaes it would say so. Click on the link above that says "The Website Says". It is in small print underneath the image. --One Salient Oversight 23:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

But I don't think the point is whether or not it's a bourbon. It's whether or not it's bourbon-based. The fact that it's a liqueur just means that it's an alcoholic beverage with sweet flavoring added.

I'm not arguing the point either way. I'm just saying that I, like you guys, had always heard that it's bourbon-based, and the fact that the web site calls it a "liqueur" doesn't mean it isn't bourbon-based, it means it isn't a bourbon (which it clearly isn't, and which nobody says it is). TomTheHand 22:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

And here I answer my own question. This link to an article from the San Francisco Chronicle states that according to sources at Brown-Forman, it's made with a neutral base. I'll add the source to the article. TomTheHand 22:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

If you go to the website http://www.southerncomfort.com/ and click on the "New Orleans Roots" link, then the "Soco Story" link, it has the information about its origins and original ingredients. According to the website it was invented to "'Rectify' the sometimes rough-tasting barrel whiskey coming down the Mississippi" and contains peach, orange, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar flavors. So it is a liqueur based on whiskey (not necessarily bourbon whiskey) and does contain peach flavoring (which someone seems intent on removing from the article). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.190.253 (talk) 12:31, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] parts of the article..

I feel that parts of the article seem to read like an ad. Probably not intentional it just reads that way from the way things are said. "It is made from a secret blend of whiskey, peach, orange, vanilla, sugar & cinnamon." Here I feel secret sounds more like an advertising term, and less like formal reference language. Also, parts of "In Cocktails" reads possibly subjectively to me.

Any thoughts?--59.100.7.61 09:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of the Recipes

The article provides the present ingredients, and later the original ingredients. It would be a fine thing if someone knowledgeable in these matters could provide more detail about when, how, and why the recipe has changed over time. (I regret that I do not possess such competence.) —12.72.73.14 01:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)