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T TikiHardBop Tiki Socialite Rockledge, FL Joined: Feb 21, 2009 Posts: 584	T TikiHardBop Posted posted on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 1:57 PM Read up on John Martin and his marketing of Smirnoff vodka in the 1950's to see how vodka overtook gin for martinis and most everything else as a base for cocktails. And to add my $.02 to the topic, classics are classics for a reason. I'm certainly OK with modifying classic cocktail recipes, but you should definitely delineate the new recipe. I would like to think that if I order a Manhattan, I'm going to get a Manhattan, not your take on a Manhattan, unless it specifically states that. Of course, I live in a cocktail-impaired area of the world where you are lucky if the drink you get even remotely resembles what it is supposed to be.

Read up on John Martin and his marketing of Smirnoff vodka in the 1950's to see how vodka overtook gin for martinis and most everything else as a base for cocktails.

And to add my $.02 to the topic, classics are classics for a reason. I'm certainly OK with modifying classic cocktail recipes, but you should definitely delineate the new recipe. I would like to think that if I order a Manhattan, I'm going to get a Manhattan, not your take on a Manhattan, unless it specifically states that.

Of course, I live in a cocktail-impaired area of the world where you are lucky if the drink you get even remotely resembles what it is supposed to be.

Post #585478 by TikiHardBop on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 1:57 PM