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Subject: Re: "Brass Monkey" History ??
From: Fillup
Posted: Fri Sep 8. 2000, 04:24 UTC
Followup to: ""Brass Monkey" History ??"  by severin  (Fri Sep 8. 2000, 02:53 UTC)
> Does anyone know the origin & history of the drink, "Brass Monkey." 
> Someone I work with says she heard a wild story of it being named for 
> a bar somewhere in Morocco, where spies would gather to trade 
> information and misinformation during World War II. 
> 
> As she was telling this, I got a vague memory of someone -- Hueblein, 
> I think -- including the Brass Monkey in a line of pre-mixed bottled 
> drinks they introduced in the 70s (?). They had big magazine ads 
> about these drinks, and the ones for the Brass Monkey told a story 
> something like the one my co-woprker heard.
> 
> Anyone else heard this story? Anyone know if it's true or just an 
> ad-man's invention. And if true, what else can you tell me . . . like 
> what city was the bar in, is it still in business, or if not, when 
> did it close?
> 
> Thanks . . . 

     The Brass monkey was invented at a bar in downtown Los Angeles, on 
Wilshire blvd, and the recipe was a closely guarded secret. It was purchased 
and sold in can in the mid to late seventies.

      Fillup.


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