cocktails (was Re: [thechat] Laphroig?)

[Erika Meyer]

BTW speaking as a former bartender (aka 'pusher'), my perception is 
that the whole point of cocktails like "Sex on the Beach" (an overly 
complicated juice drink) and "Screaming Orgasm"  (a mudslide-like 
shooter) is that the names are supposed to get repeated loudly by the 
bartender, and/or your friends.  It's part of the experience.

In some bars, ordering ANY cocktail opens you up to some type of 
ridicule and/or eye-rolling.  While in other bars, ordering a 
non-alcoholic beverage will make you subject to ridicule.

I went into a bar Saturday night to meet a potential client and asked 
for tea.  Boy I've never seen such an surly response from a cocktail 
waitress...   except once in Wisconsin when I ordered coffee with 
milk and was told point blank, "This is a bar, it ain't a 
restaurant." (it was actually a 3-2 dive that sold nothing but watery 
extra-weak beer.)

ah, drugs.

Erika


>Probably easier to order 'Stingers at the Beach' at the Price of Wales
>Grille than 'Sex on the Beach' which always seems to get repeated loudly by
>the friendly bartender. Or so I've heard.
>
>spinhead
>

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