Post #778938 by tikitube on Wed, Aug 16, 2017 3:21 PM

On 2017-08-16 06:31, swizzle wrote:
Well to me you definitely seem to come across as defending it. Who in hell orders a double of ANYTHING besides a nip of spirits???

"Bartender, could you please make me a double Mai Tai?"."Bartender, could i please have a double Cosmopolitan?". Bartender, give me a double beer?"." You mean a larger glass???"."Yeah".

The old fashioned glass is named so because of the drink. I have no idea where, or why, a double old fashioned glass came from or exists, but regardless, it does and it is the perfect size for a Mai Tai. Technically it's not a Mai Tai glass at all, it's a double old fashioned which happens to fit a Mai Tai perfectly. But no-one asks for a Mai Tai and a half!!!

If you mean me, I wouldn't use the term "marketing ploy" in defending something. And I didn't mean to suggest that someone would ask for a "double" Mai Tai, but rather how folks in ordinary bars might ask for a whiskey double.