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Subject: Re: Manhattan and oil workers
From: D
Posted: Fri Oct 6. 2000, 12:57 UTC
Followup to: "Manhattan and oil workers"  by Renee  (Fri Oct 6. 2000, 06:27 UTC)
> Can anyone tell me the answer to these two questions?
> 1) Which cocktail got its name from the way oil workers stirred it 
> with their tools?
> 2) Who invented the Manhattan Cocktail? (I've been told that it was 
> invented at New York's Manhattan Club, but I need to know who)
> 
> Thanks for any help. 

1) The Screwdriver.  Seems the workers stirred their drinks with their 
screwdrivers.

2) One story I've heard says that a Supreme Court justice by the name of Traux 
(something like that) commissioned the drink at the Manhattan Club.

-D


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