Well all, I got the job at Amtrak. I was trained to either work in the Dining
car as the manager, or work in the Lounge car. The lounge is kinda a small
convenience store, for those of you who never traveled by Amtrak trains
before. Right. So anyways.
We get a very limited selection of alcohols and mixers. I get:
Johnny Walker Scotch, Canadian Club, Absolut Vodka, Jim Beam Bourbon,
Tanqueray Gin, Bacardi Rum, Jack Daniels, some congac name I can't remember
how to type lol (VSOP congac I remember at any rate...heh) and usually 3 of
each Bailey's Irish Cream and Kahlua. Mind you, they are those small 1 shot
bitties.
The mixers and so forth I get are things such as canned bloody mary mix, tonic
h2o, ginger ale, cranberry j, club soda, orange j, coffee, pepsi (no coke,
damn their black hearts), and lemons and limes.
So anyways. Yeah, its basic, but not a whole lot to work with in my opinion,
but I'm making the best of it. These people don't demand much, but then again
I think it is because they don't KNOW what I can make for them. Sticking all
these ingredients into the webtender's neat little bar searching tool, I came
up with 55 or so recipes that I have since written down.
So I guess I have only one question: how are canned drinks? o.0 In the
lounge, we also get CANNED "gold margarita", "whiskey sour" and "pina colada"
drinks. Mixers, alcohol, and all that in the can. All I need to do is pour
it over ice -_-;; Got any ideas on how I can spice it up a little bit instead
of just having me pouring a damn can out onto ice cubes? Not a big and grand
way to present a drink to the custom, ya know? Since not many people buy them
(who wants to try a canned drink when they can get me to do a bit'o work?) I
don't know how they taste, besdies the whiskey sour. I had a lady who bought
nearly all of them on my last trip and said they were best with two packets of
suger usually reserved for the coffee drinkers, and a lime wedge. shrugs
Help is, again, always appreciated!