Subj : Re: 6/19 Nat Martini Day
To   : JIM WELLER
From : Dave Drum
Date : Tue Jun 21 2022 06:07:23

-=> JIM WELLER wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 -=> Quoting Dave Drum to Jim Weller <=-

 >     Title: Peppermint Martini
 >     Title: Dill Pickle Martini
 >     Title: Ruby Red Grapefruit Martini

 JW> These cocktails are no more martinis ... than clam chowder
 JW> is chili con carne because they are both served in soups bowls!

 DD> You missed the one specifying Noilly Pratt vermouth

 JW> I did not miss it. I skipped it. Because that one was a proper martini.

 DD> in place of the Martini & Rossi for which the drink was named.

 JW> Maybe. Maybe not. https://tinyurl.com/martini-history

Interesting. When I worked as a beer tender at the Elbow Room I once
had an old, tatty, customer who ordered a glass of gin over ice. No
chaser. Then a "suit" came in and ordered an "extra-dry" Martini - 
which I made by using a straw as an eyedropper to add a single drop of
Martini & Rossi dry vermouth to the Gilbey's gin. After about three of 
those the "suit" began to get loud and somewhat obnoxious berating the
smelly workingmen in their sweaty clothes as if he was the arbiter of
all things proper.

I asked him, just to put a damper on his gob before one of my regular
(workman) customers clocked him one upside his jaw "Do you have any
idea what the difference between you and that (pointing to the old guy
nursing his glass of iced gin) is? Just a single tiny drop of Vermouth!"

Taking umbrage he tossed back the last of his drink a left. Problem
solved. 

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Sloe Gin Fizz
 Categories: Booze, Beverages, Citrus
      Yield: 1 Guzzle
 
  1 1/2 oz Sloe gin
      2 tb Lemon juice
      1 ts Powdered sugar
      6 oz Club soda; or to fill
      1    Maraschino cherry
      1    Lemon slice
 
  Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add sloe gin, lemon juice,
  and powdered sugar. Shake and strain into a Collins glass
  filled with ice cubes. Fill with club soda. Garnish with
  a cherry and an lemon slice.
  
  Source: Old Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's Guide
  
  RECIPE FROM: http://www.recipesource.com
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
MMMMM



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