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Subject: Re: Terminology
From: Dan the Melon Man
Posted: Sat Dec 6. 2008, 04:54 UTC
Followup to: "Terminology"  by BlakeandBrooke  (Thu Dec 4. 2008, 14:41 UTC)
Pedantically and according to the Bartenders bibles, you are correct.

But to a human being and an English speaker, "straight" means "without fucking 
around with it" and "up" is a meaningless intensifier. They shouldn't be 
expected to guess that 'up' means anything to do with adding ice to it.

I mean, on analysis, it's a pretty stupid phrase on its own, right?
OK, they shouldn't use strict terminology when meaning a vague idea, but who 
would have known that those were reserved words?

.dan.

> Do you find that customers don't really know what straight up means?  
> Twice in the past week, someone has ordered a drink "Staight up."  
> When it comes cold and in a chilled glass, they go what the hell is 
> that?  I hate to say to them are you sure you know what straight up 
> means? But on the other hand, I'm sick of wasting because they don't 
> know what terminology to use when ordering.  


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