There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 63 (1929; rev. 1970), advice to his disciple Victor Neuburg in Paris.
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.