Message 23727 of 39188 in General Discussion

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> Also a cherry is not a default garnish for a Whisky Sour, but lots of 
> people think it is. Personally, a lemon slice is much better.
> 

A lemon wheel makes a lot more sense to me, I like to use garnishes that 
correlate in some way with the ingredients in the cocktail.  Still, I've seen 
an orange and cherry garnish listed in several books including Regan's "Joy of 
Mixology", to say nothing of the many bartenders I've worked with who would 
concur.  

That isn't to say that it's always been so, maybe the orange and cherry thing 
has only been around for a generation, I don't know what your rationale is for 
saying that it isn't the proper garnish.  My intention is not to argue about 
what the truth is, as though we could peek at God's Cocktail Recipes, but just 
to point out that if this garnish is being used by the majority of bartenders 
and is supported in modern books than it's futile to reject it as invalid.

One cannot reject reality, at least not without being considered insane.  You 
can insist that things should be done like X but if the rest of the world 
moves on to something else you can't keep insisting that X is the proper way 
and deviations from it are incorrect.  What defines a thing as the correct 
way?  Surely documentation and the common practice of professionals counts for 
something?  I don't mean to make such a big deal out of this, I don't care if 
someone garnishes a drink differently than the way I'm used to.  I just think 
it's a bit narrow-minded to dismiss something as incorrect merely because it 
doesn't coincide with what you're familiar with.