Tiki Central / Tiki Drinks and Food / allow me to advocate for a "drier" mai tai
Post #585359 by telescopes on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 8:50 PM
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I can come up with other examples of the collective changing cuisine/booze palate if you guys prefer. crikey. :lol: [ Edited by: thePorpoise 2011-04-17 19:22 ] The whole point of retro is not to be revisionist, but rather to revisit. Yes, society changes and it moves on. Sometimes for best, sometimes for not. I think the martini is one where so many of our drinkers have just gotten it wrong. First, they believe that vodka is best kept in the fridge so that it doesn't dilute the ice and mix with wateer - Huh, to quote Sarah Palin, and I so rarely do..."wtf". Secondly, they believe a good mixed drink is best served straight. To quote the Donald, and I never do, "Show me the birth certificate." Third, as if this wasn't enough, a martini is dry if it doesn't have much or little or even none of dry vermouth. Okay, let's think about this. A sweet martini has sweet vermouth. A dry martini has dry vermouth. Either Italian or French, sweet or dry, you get to choose. The lack of vermouth does not make a martini dry. It makes it not a martini. Since when did straight vodka become a martini? And yet, it has. Why? Who made this decision? I''ll tell you. Idiots who don't know what the hell they are talking about. I order Scotch. I order it neat. Without ice, without being shaken. Just simply put, neat. If you want a shot of vodka, do the same. Don't say you want it shaken with ice and then call it a martini. Because as everyone knows, martinis should be stirred....NOT SHAKEN!!! If I want my Scotch cold, I have it stirred with a little ice. The ice melts, it opens up the scotch, and voila, .... I don't shake it and call it a Scotch Martini. Why? Because MARTINI does not mean "SHAKEN with ICE!" Martini means.... mixed with vermouth. God help us. Yes, examples exist far and wide that demonstrate how society has changed. But guess what....Coitus still means that the male genital was inserted through the female genital. Many other examples abound regarding that topic, but Coitus still means what it means. And for this writer, and drinker, Martini still means Gin mixed with vermouth and ice. Amen! Okay, the edit was to remind you that all of this was meant in good humor. Amen again. Who knew posting about tiki could be so contentious? [ Edited by: telescopes 2011-04-17 20:51 ] |