Kentucky Derby Party Invitation

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Bob Stockler propounded (on Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:48:57PM -0400):
>| Mike Schwartz wrote (on Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:31:09PM -0500):
>| 
>| |      (top post)  I don't know where to get any mint sprigs here in Northern
>| | Wisconsin and I would probably try to make my Mint Julep with rye whiskey,
>| | anyway, but I've just "penciled in" the first "official" on-line party for
>| | the filePro room on my PDA...
>| | 
>| |      (Isn't there usually sugar or syrup or something else added to a Mint
>| | Julep???) 
>| 
>| Yeah, a lotta people put some powdered sugar or simple syrup
>| in their's.
>| 
>| Actually, you can leave out the mint andi/or sweetener and still
>| call it a Mint Julep or whatever you like.
>
>Well, that reminds me of nothing so much as people who put only gin and
>ice in a glass, and still have the chutzpah to call it a martini.

True.  One has to whisper the work Vermouth over the glass.
Actually the way my father taught me to make martinis when I was
about 10 was to swish a bit of vermouth in a jigger, pour it out,
then add the gin (and he tried in vain to keep me from eating all
the cocktail onions :-).

Bill
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