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Default Fresh Ginger Moscow Mule

On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:30:54 -0700 (PDT), Bryan-TGWWW
> wrote:

> On Friday, July 25, 2014 4:32:53 PM UTC-5, sf wrote:
> > http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/fre...MzA2MTQ0NDQ0S0
> >

> Somehow, this conjured up thoughts of a Soviet past, where for some
> arbitrary reason, ginger was banned from Moscow (maybe Stalin had
> hated it, and branded it counter-revolutionary), and folks traveling
> to the capital stuffing their asses with ginger roots. Lord help
> them if the KGB subjected them to a cavity search.
>
> To this very day, many older Muscovites thank Comrade Khrushchev for
> access to ginger that doesn't "taste like ass."
>

Did you just make that up?

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