Things they didn't tell me at CIA

[tamidon]

when cutting a wedding cake it is helpful to be completely sober, and not in high heels.I don't feel like I did a great job because I know how it's really supposed to be done, but better than nothing I guess.I did it quick and dirty, the proper way is much more elaborate and precise, but what can you do. Now time to go get the frosting off my high heels.I must say kids, you all looked wonderful and can really get down and get funky. Props to the guy, who I don't know, who got the group boogie to "Ice Ice Baby" going, gotta love someone who just doesn't care and lets it all hang out like that.Definitely time to call a girls night to hit a club to dance the night away.BTW, got the recipe for those Key Lime Pie martinis. Before someone pops up to get their panties in a twist...feste_sylvain cough...let me point out that martinis weren't originally the concoction supposed purists would like to believe, as they weren't dry. Mixed drinks in the 1880s were invariably sweet and martinis were made with at least 1/2 sweet vermouth. The dry version popped up later, some think during prohibition, some think later, when sweet liquors were harder to find. I know some folks hate the new martinis, but it has become accepted to name any drink in a martini glass with little or no drink mixers(non alcholholic liquids like soda or sour mix) a martini. So pthbthbt

Comments

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Yes, i was just explaining to P the utter wrongness of calling something a martini just because you serve it in a martini glass- it is like calling something a Hamburger just because you serve it on a bun.

The key lime thingie sounds good though- i didn't have one. But the peach ones were yummy. Hm, we were at a 1880's theme function once and the drinks on offer, like the Gimlet, were all rather strong and not-sweet.

I'd be into a girls clubbing nite...

[ceo]

I was amused awhile back at Gargoyle's, that lyonesse and I had both ordered drinks called martinis, that had no ingredients in common. Hers was a "chocolate martini", vodka and creme de cacao, and mine was a standard dry gin martini, albeit a particularly deadly example of its kind.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I'd be way into the clubbing thing. Thanks for the drink lesson. :)

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

I knew the martini history. I looked it up a few years ago when some jackass insisted that a martini should be made with vodka instead of gin. Rather than devolve into fisticuffs, we looked up the history, and found that martinis were original those poofy things you described, and that the glasses were originally lined with sugar (much as margaritas are lined with salt).

We left our argument as allies against the resurgence of sticky-sweet concoctions calling themselves martinis. Note that I said "resurgence". They were there first. That doesn't mean they can come back without a fight.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd rather drink one of the foofy hooker drinks than either a regular vodka or gin martini any day.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with you or anyone drinking a foofy hooker drink.

I have a problem with foofy hooker drinks trying to buy respectability with the name "martini".

However, tamidon brought up an excellent point off-line: it seems that all of these foofy hooker drinks with "'tini" at the ends of their names actually contain an equivalent amount of alcohol in their three ounces that other drinks in the daiquiri family contain in eight ounces. I have to admit that this is actually a good working distinction.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Oh hell, yeah...especially the ones at Gargoyle's on the Square, here in Davis Square. Holy shit. I think that was actually the equivalent of 2-3 cocktails.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, everyone's down on the martini thing. I was amused and impressed at you and the cake-cutting. Having watched you do it a couple times before (with planning and forethought) I could see some of the errors, but the results were still great and you still rock. Even drunk and in high heels :)

--wex