Found a bottle in the back corner of the fire locker recently. This dates back to the early days of the lab, when the shop shared some storage space with us.
This was really good acetone for cleaning vacuum parts, and we didn’t want anyone to mistake it for the cheaper acetone one might use to degrease parts. It’s just a matter of putting it in terms a wider audience might understand.
It was the the Lagavulin of single malt acetone! If you have a bowl of very cold French vanillia ice cream, pour a jigger of Laphroaig over it instead.
In 2001 I went to a conference in Scotland, and was tasked to get an “official” pronunciation of some words, including Laphroaig. I was all set to ask the cabbie, since the trip from Glasgow to St. Andrews was going to take a few minutes, and a fellow passenger saw my list and remarked, “Oh, la-frog. I’ve had that.”
The cabbie gave a rather dismissive, “That’d be (la froyg)”