On Mon 28 Nov 2005 08:13:04p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Myraide?

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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 28 Nov 2005 07:36:20p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Myraide?
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>> > Peter Aitken wrote:
>> >> "Myraide" > wrote in message
>> >> oups.com...
>> >> > over about a cup of ice in martini shaker:
>> >> >
>> >> > four oz of prime citrus vodka, like absolut or grey goose
>> >> > one to two oz cointreau
>> >> > *POM* pomegranate juice, to fill shaker
>> >> >
>> >> > makes two martinis, pour into chilled martini glasses and add:
>> >> >
>> >> > squeeze of lime or lemon
>> >> > pomegranate fruit for bottom of glass (optional decor)
>> >> >
>> >> > this is the best martini i have ever had! myraide
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> No matter how good, this is NOT A MARTINI! Putting some weird
>> >> concoction in a martini glass does not make it a martini. A martini
is
>> >> gin and vermouth.
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>> >
>> > uh oh....... i better ask oprah and rachel ray about this, then......
>> > myraide
>>
>> Well, someone needs to set them straight. It might as well be you. :-)
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> what would this drink be called then? i mean there are all different
> kinds of wine, why can't there be different kinds of martinis? myraide

Take a look at any bar book and you'll see that there are hundreds of
unique names to define drinks that were once new inventions. If bartenders
and drink promoters of those generations had been as stupid as those of the
current, they'd all have been called martinis, or mabe manhattans. The
best they seem to be able to do today is capitalize on the glass that a
real martini is served in. What a lot of crap!

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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