Sounds great.
You could call it "the vandal":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals
I guess this is remotely relevant since everyone going to the world cup is probably spending some time in airport bars...
I used to like them. I'd offer to pick friends up from the airport just for the excuse to hang around and people-watch. But today it's been like a special kind of hell. Flight delays, and all kinds of complications left me in one at CVG for a while, and I swear the guy was in another world. I ordered food, shot, and a beer, paid up front, and tipped 8 bucks on a 22 dollar tab.
Then had to ask twice for the beer, and three times for the shot. Each time he just gave me the soft, placid smile and wandered off.
I think I figured it out though. When I stopped at the rest room and saw myself in the mirror I realized that I must have forgotten to comb my hair. Wild-ass looking freak with a red goatee staring back at me.
I think he thought I was already drunk in the early afternoon on a Sunday, and was passive-aggressively trying to avoid giving me more.
Cancelled flights, missing colleague, crazy-ass flight attendant, awful cramped seats, and an OJ-style run through the Chicago airport later, I finally found a great bartender in LAX... helpful, engaging, pretty, tall blonde in her 40's...
...with a thick German accent.
Somehow that fits, huh?
Also, amazing views of wildfires a hundred miles northeast of LA. I counted 7 different fires, but some might have been controlled, intentional burns.
Oh, and the shotglass in CVG was so encrusted with dishwasher-baked orange pits they looked like barnacles.
I shouldn't have said the barteder's in her 40's looks more like 30's, and who knows... maybe she reads your blog!
call it "kohhari" old high german for quiver.
or "March Revolution", the origin of the German flag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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I've always wanted to try airport bartending. Different crowd every day, no true regulars. And freaks with fucked-up hair and red goatees!
It's been a long time since you could get to the airport bar without a ticket. Hang out, meet your loved one at the gate. I used to love watching the reunions there, while waiting for my own. Meeting-up in baggage claim just isn't the same thing. Pre-9/11 world, as they say.
Cov... great story. You should have a blog. 
I'm digging Vandal and March Revolution, but I need more. What about naming it after one of those players in that annoying Adidas commercial? Please don't make it come to that.
The US really got tagged yesterday. Sheesh!
How about you name it after everyone's favorite German Air Force officer, Col. Klink?
From a marketing viewpoint, everyone who sees "Colonel Klink" on a cocktail menu is going to ask you "what's that?"
Or how about Luftwaffe? (sp?)
OK, I'll now keep my suggestions to a bare miniumum.
nope, you should call it the "Mueller" after Gerd, the great german goal-scorer. it sounds like muller, and one can mull over a drink, can one not?
of course, one can clink a drink too. The clinkmueller? it sounds like a real world.
Why is it called a pony glass?
Okay, got it.
Love finding out stuff like this, including the name of that type of glass, which I've used a ton of times but only ever known as a shot glass.
Great suggestions... so far I'm leaning toward "Vandal" (cov) and "Klink-Mueller" (with a nod to cookie and Robert Green)
Awesome England match today... though they've made it out of their group, they're going to really have to get it together for the next round. Germany had me all nerves too... this is great stuff. I can't get enough, and it has nothing to do with how yummy footballers are, either.
Great info on the origin of the pony glass, spank. Spank you very much.
This is my very last suggestion, I promise:
"Kick in the GraSS"
And then, Jen, you could make it kinda German . . . somehow.
Last one. Honest. Never again.
After initially seeing this drink on the World Cup site, I've been trying to make this cocktail successfully, working also from the info on your page. But try as I might I can't get the grenadine to float on top of the orange juice. Can you tell me in more detail what I need to do/use?
I'm using freshly squeezed orange juice (orange), grenadine syrup (red) and Blavod (black).
I'm familiar with the technique of getting vodka to float on grenadine syrup (as in the Teraz Polska / Now Poland shot) but in this case I just can't get it to work. Perhaps I need to mix the blood orange with the grenadine? Or perhaps I shouldn't be using grenadine syrup??
Any help welcome! Thanks!
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