Scotch is wasted on me. I've tried. I don't taste anything. I'm sure it's me, but it was so sad. Relatives with 12-year-old Whatthefuck they poured just for me, and I'm like"Yeah, that was cold and wet, okay." Like explaining making out to Rain Man.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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erikaj - Mar 23, 2009 10:10:01 am PDT #4468 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Calli - Mar 23, 2009 10:10:48 am PDT #4469 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Gimlets you can be pretty sure of.
Ah, if only. I've averaged about 1 in 3 vodka gimlet orders coming close--the others have been some sort of unholy vodka with a squirt of lime concoctions.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 23, 2009 10:12:22 am PDT #4470 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Yeah, I recently ordered a Periodista and was thwarted due to insufficient ingredients.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
Basically, I should live at the Eastern Standard Kitchen.
erikaj - Mar 23, 2009 10:13:36 am PDT #4471 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Raymond Chandler would be pissed. But it seems to me even Marlowe said it was hard to find a good gimlet in America.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 23, 2009 10:14:04 am PDT #4472 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
In related news: I cannot wait to go to New Orleans and have 25 cent martinis and Sazeracs to my heart's content! Also, Pimms Cups and absinthe.
Vortex - Mar 23, 2009 10:16:01 am PDT #4473 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Gimlets you can be pretty sure of.
Ah, if only.
Oh, I meant in the having the ingredients sense. The mixture, OTOH. I have asked if I can make it myself, and, failing that, said, "okay, pooooooouuuuur . . . STOP. Okay, now a splash of Rose's." He finally got it when I told him to think of it like the vermouth in a martini.
Strix - Mar 23, 2009 10:17:31 am PDT #4474 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Fresh lime juice is best for gimlets. And I agree; I either have to tell the bartender what it is, or I have to ask them to modify it. I've had a lot of "EUUUGGH, that's just cold vodka UNDO IT UNDO IT!" gimlets.
I prefer more Rose's to less, Vortx, to avoid precisely that reaction.
I drank WAY too much straight vodka in high school to want to taste it now!
DavidS - Mar 23, 2009 10:18:25 am PDT #4475 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I still stand by my Sazerac cocktail recommendation. Classy, classic, simple, badass, mysterious.
By most accounts the Sazerac is the first cocktail.
I need to go to bars that specialize in classic cocktails, single malt whiskey, micro brewed beer, and, um, port wine.
That would be Alembic in my neighborhood. And I know you like their beer since they're affiliated with Magnola where I took you drinking.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2009 10:19:24 am PDT #4476 of 30000
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My drinks of choice: Cheap red wine a la Riunite Lambrusco, and Boone's Farm Sangria.
t holder of a wussy palate since 1979 and proud of it
Strix - Mar 23, 2009 10:20:20 am PDT #4477 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
What is in a Sazerac? I don't like any kind of whisky, gin, bourbon or Scotch, so I'm pretty limited in my cocktailage.
My Celtic heritage turns up its nose at me and sniffs. I don't really like beer, either.