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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:48:23 +0000

[...] pomegranate juice, Wasmund’s, Whisky | Leave a Comment A little while back, our friends at Endless Simmer let on that they had received a sample of pomegranate juice from the folks at POM Wonderful. [...]

By: lc

lc — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:01:25 +0000

@gansie: I had a similar experience at Ocean Grill in NYC but not only would the bartender not let me have the martini – he didn’t want to make it with vodka at all because it’s the simplest and most boring alcohol possible. He insisted on making me try Hendrix gin even though my gin privleges have been revoked since what i refer to as the “incident.” He almost converted me to a gin drinker and cocktail snob because that gin tasted like springtime and rainbows. His scolding also won him a place among my favorite bartenders.

By: SLN

SLN — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:02:06 +0000

Dirty martinis are vile, vile stuff – even worse if you use a bad vodka. Grey Goose isn’t anything special – it is the result of marketing.

Re: Cocktail snobbery – I hate those people who insist on calling common drinks special names. Vodka + Cranberry juice = “Vodka Cranberry,” not “Cape Cod,” douchetard. And then the ones who decide to modify that further by simply naming a local geographic feature. Please die.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:43:40 +0000

I tried to be a cocktail snob about 8 years ago. I cut a recipe out of the Daily News for a blood orange martini – never made it, but if I want to snob it up I know it’s there.

By: Maids

Maids — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:28:55 +0000

@gansie, that’s simply not the same. Your favorite bartender might have the palate of an eighty-year-old woman who can toss back a “clean” martini without batting a lash, but I can’t…

By: erica

erica — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:33:10 +0000

I made a pickletini a while back, not wanting to waste the pickle juice. I should have wasted the juice.

By: gansie

gansie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:25:32 +0000

@LaMorgan – the bartender suggested that instead of ordering a dirty martini to order a martini w/ olives (sans juice)

By: Maids

Maids — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:38:15 +0000

@ LaMorgan: sounds like you are volunteering? Why don’t you make me a pitcher of pomegranate Sangria and take a picture of it and then write an ES post on the subject!?!

By: La Morgan

La Morgan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:48:18 +0000

@gansie – what’s with the hating on dirty martinis? the salty olive-y goodness cuts the edge off one-step-above-rail vodka (I wouldn’t necessarily order Grey Goose dirty, but Stolichnaya or Absolut? Hell yes.) Plus you get to eat something with your drink during the interminable wait for food, and you still get tipsy. Also it is fabulous on a hot summer day with seafood – tastes like you just got out of swimming in the ocean. Finally, since vodka is somewhat watery-flavored (the name “vodka” is derived from the Russian word for water, “voda”), pretty much ANYTHING you drink with it other than ice violates the “pureness of alcohol.” Lemon, sugar, cranberry juice, and tonic water included. Is he against mixing in general? Possibly he shouldn’t bartend in that case.

@Maids: Isn’t vodka made from potatoes or wheat? How do Congolese babies figure into that? There are plenty of poor Eastern European/Russian babies deserving of your attention here – don’t forget them! Also, red wine has antioxidants, so no need to pollute that with pom juice. It could be really good in a sangria, though – could that be a future post, pomegranate sangria? Mmmm.

By: gansie

gansie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:09:17 +0000

@BS – impressive pic! phew on not following the directions. i thought i lost you!

@maids. you fucking kill me.

so i ordered a dirty martini w/ vodka at BLT Steak in DC and after a few sips i started getting friendly w/ the bartender. he then started railing on said dirty martini and how it’s gross to add this briney salt-water solution to the pureness of alcohol. and then he went on to say a dirty martini is like drinking douche.

he is my favorite bartender. i will never drink dirty martinis again.