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Subject: Re: Answer these please...
From: Rick Stallion
Posted: Mon Mar 8. 2010, 02:54 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Answer these please..."  by Davidh  (Sun Mar 7. 2010, 10:26 UTC)
> and you didn't hate to interupt or you wouldn't have fucking done it. 
> 
Wow, What hostility.

> 
> your bringing a paperclip to a gunfight, know your place.  and dude, 
> I don't know shit, okay.  so what does that say?  
> 

What "gunfight" or any other "fight" are you refering to.

> yeah and fell out of favor?
> 
There are some 4,000+ drinks if you know all of them from memory I would be 
highly impressed. 
If your a bartender answer these questions:
How many grasshoppers, pink squirrels, tchoupitolas street guzzles, Jean 
Lafitte Cocktails, old fashions, golden slippers, headless horsemen, and hot 
brandy flips did you make this weekend? If you think drinks don't go out of 
style.

Or maybe you can tell me what the ten most popular drinks you've served in the 
last 2 weeks?


> that's why there were so many substitutes for a 100 years.  and 
> that's why it's legality was pushed because it was so unpopular...... 
> ..  I have nothing more to say to either one of you.  you don't even 
> deserve to read my mindless babble, noob.

Can you list 10 Absinthe Drinks that you have made for more than 4 different 
customers in the last months? Howmany bottles of Anis - or wahtever you used 
of the "so many substitutes"? 

You say there are no drink regions - then tell why the difference between a 
"Northern style" and "Southern Style" mint julep. Or maybe you can explain why 
a Strawberry Daiquiri from St. Thomas is completely different than one you 
would get in Mrytal Beach S. Carolina. Or why the Long Island Ice Teas I drank 
in Norfolk, VA., FT. Lauderdale, Memphis Tenn., and St. Croix were all 
different tasting?

Or if things don't go out of favor, why is it 20 years ago everyone who drank 
a White Russian wanted "Coffee Brandy" now everyone wants "Kahlua" in it 
instead? Or why if drinks don't go out of style almost no one under 60 every 
orders and "Old fashion"? Or of why Baileys and Amaretto a busy bar 20 years 
ago would barely use one bottle a month each, now go through one every 2 or 3 
days?


> 
> next thing you know, martinis will be made with vodka and people will 
> think a cuba libre is a rum and coke with a lime.  Doomsday better 
> come, because I don't want to live in a bartenders world like this.   
>  
Please don't mention Cuba Libre, I just had it out in a half dozen posts with 
Cheryl Charming who insisted that a Cuba Libre was just a Rum and Coke with a 
lime garnish, and that no lime juice, Roses or fresh squeezed went, in it.

And as far as Vodka going in a martini, I think someone already went over that 
one too. Vodka goes in a Vodka Martini, and all flavored Martinis. And as 
someone said that many people have been so used to James Bond ordering a Vodka 
Martini "shaken ot stirred", they think Vodka does go in a martini. You should 
double check what the customer wants, unless you know the customer. I know one 
guy that orders martinis all the time. But you have to know that when he asks 
for it he wants an "extra dry" (only a couple drops of vermouth, not a dash) 
vodka martini, and he wants an olive not a lemon twist (the normal garnish for 
an extra dry martini). And his wife (honestly, I think they aren't married 
just live together and they are in their 70s by now) wants you to surprise 
her, she likes them all, and want you as a bartender to pick for her.


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