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C capheind Member Bakersfield, CA Joined: Aug 24, 2010 Posts: 43	C capheind Posted posted on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 3:06 PM Actually I've had the Appletini (mostly because I'm a very large man and it amuses me to see wait staff and patrons want to say something and yet still keep it muzzled) I don't have a problem with adding tini to something, but calling something X Martini (chocolate martini, cool-whip martini whatever) kinda bothers me when nowhere in the drink is there even the rudiments of a fine martini. You can change of the gnosh, you can add some bitters, I'm even tolerant of a twist of lime or some olive juice, but I've ended friendships when someone asked to go further than 5:1 (or an FDR, best president ever)

Actually I've had the Appletini (mostly because I'm a very large man and it amuses me to see wait staff and patrons want to say something and yet still keep it muzzled) I don't have a problem with adding tini to something, but calling something X Martini (chocolate martini, cool-whip martini whatever) kinda bothers me when nowhere in the drink is there even the rudiments of a fine martini. You can change of the gnosh, you can add some bitters, I'm even tolerant of a twist of lime or some olive juice, but I've ended friendships when someone asked to go further than 5:1 (or an FDR, best president ever)

Post #585484 by capheind on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 3:06 PM