this is the best post i have read in ages...even maybe THE best!!!wonderful use of language and melded together with a string of hits and tunes to knock santa off his rockahulla sleigh lookin for the bevvy bottles...
What's Next? Sobering Up? You jest, Sir. What's the use ;~)
OMyGod - not Hangovers (pulls covers over his head)
Quietly, [i]please[/i]
gin and juice and your blog - never would i have thought the two would cross paths. amazing.
I suppose "Scotch and Soda" from the Kingston Trio's first LP was too obvious. I have fond teenage memories of the song, one of my first grownup affectations.
Bravo !!!
Regarding what your friend Big Rock said about martinis, I have a comment (I would have commented on his blog, but I couldn't find the rant there, only on yours) -
Brian obviously likes gin, and that's great, but as much as he thinks he's a martini snob, he's not driking martinis either. He's drinking gin.
Where does the Martini get it's name? It was originally the Martini Cocktail - Named for the brand of vermouth that was used in it. That's right, it was named for the vermouth and not the gin... So how are you drinking a martini when you leave out the most important ingredient?
Now, there is a reason why every yuppie and hipster out there orders their martini "ultra dry" or "bone dry" or some other crap like that. It's because vodka cannot handle vermouth very well. It just doesn't have the balls to stand up to it the way gin does. So when you're drinking a bullshit vodka martini, it actually IS better to have the bartender use one of those stupid spritzer bottles of vermouth, or rinse out the glass with vermouth and toss the excess (should be a crime). But GIN... gin can handle a reasonable portion of vermouth. And that's what a martini is.
Don't want the vermouth? Fine. Just don't call it a martini.
Don't get me wrong, I've got a lot of respect for a man who just drinks cold gin. Hell, it was Winston Churchill who invented the Sahara Dry martini if I remember right. I believe he said something about pouring the gin and then glaring angrily across the room at the bottle of vermouth.
So, in closing, there are two types of people who don't like vermouth in their martinis - Idiots who drink vodka, and alchoholics. I'll tip my hat to the latter, but I'll still fight for long suffering vermouth.
-JB
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