notbob > wrote in
:

> On 2005-02-21, Amarantha > wrote:
>
>> Ah, yes, I've had a salty dog But for some reason I thought those
>> were made with vodka....
>
> This is because the x/y/z/whatever generation is too wimpy to drink
> gin and too lazy too create new names for gin origin/vodka clone
> drinks.
>
> nb

Hehe - I suspected something of the sort And I'm perplexed by this new
fad of calling all mixed drinks "martinis". I was on a web board
somewhere, and everyone was saying stuff like, "i had this great martini it
was southern and apple and cinnamon wot's ur fave martini"? I don't get
what's so uncool all of a sudden about the word "cocktail".

K
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