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DavidS - Dec 21, 2006 10:54:40 am PST #7494 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Gimlets need sugar, dammit!

That's why you have simple syrup. Rose's is yuck compared to real lime.

David, two ingredients does not make "a proper cocktail," no matter how you serve it, so why make dishes? Dishes suck.

Yeah, it does. A highball is just booze plus mixer. 7&7, Rum and coke, etc.


Atropa - Dec 21, 2006 10:55:10 am PST #7495 of 10007
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

It's very satisfying to build a proper cocktail.

Especially because in our house, it usually involves antique implements, setting something on fire, or, on really good nights, both!


Jesse - Dec 21, 2006 10:56:09 am PST #7496 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, it does. A highball is just booze plus mixer. 7&7, Rum and coke, etc.

But they aren't made better by being put in a glass! Rum and coke is made better by adding a lime, but then you have three ingredients! Is what I was getting at.


Laga - Dec 21, 2006 10:56:36 am PST #7497 of 10007
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I think a cocktail needs a garnish. Twist of lemon for the 7&7 and a lime wedge for the rum & coke. Therefore if you take a swig of diet coke, add some vanilla vodka and squeeze a little lime before you swallow that'd be a cocktail.


Aims - Dec 21, 2006 10:56:41 am PST #7498 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.

antique implements

Pete makes all the cocktails?


bon bon - Dec 21, 2006 10:56:54 am PST #7499 of 10007
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

That's why you have simple syrup. Rose's is yuck compared to real lime.

As a serious gimlet drinker, I respectfully dissent.


Daisy Jane - Dec 21, 2006 10:57:43 am PST #7500 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I will agree with Hec, though I'm likely biased since even at home, mine are made by a professional.


Steph L. - Dec 21, 2006 10:59:44 am PST #7501 of 10007
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I avoid the problem by drinking beer or wine at home. Though wine involves a glass, which is a dish to wash. (I refuse to drink wine out of the bottle, because even though I can eat a whole family-size box of Oreos in one sitting, there's just something unseemly about drinking a nicely aged cabernet right out of its bottle.)


Sophia Brooks - Dec 21, 2006 10:59:51 am PST #7502 of 10007
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

And I am going to have to agree with bon bon, at least when the gimlets are made by me. I LIKE the Rose's.


Jesse - Dec 21, 2006 10:59:52 am PST #7503 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In other news, now I have the special events assistant sitting outside my office door, and she's making follow-up calls to some invitations we sent out. Practically everyone she's calling is Someone, and I can tell she has no clue who any of them are. It's kind of funny, really.