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Created at least 73 years ago to celebrate the Army-Navy football game day, this cocktail "balances the tartness of fresh lemon juice" with sweet, creamy orgeat syrup and Angostura bitters that add depth, according to Amy Traynor of MoodyMixologist.com. There, Traynor has beverage recipes for any occasion.

Ingredients
  • ¾ ounce lemon juice, fresh or bottled (if using fresh, requires 1 or 2 lemons, depending on size) + 1 lemon to make twists for garnish (optional)
  • 2 ounces gin
  • ½ ounce orgeat syrup
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters (can substitute other bitters such as chocolate or cherry)
  • Edible flowers for garnish (optional)
Instructions
1. If using fresh lemon, juice it into a small bowl.
2. Fill your cocktail shaker three-quarters full with ice.
3. Add gin, lemon juice, orgeat syrup and bitters to cocktail shaker. If using a jigger, pour and measure each ingredient into the jigger one by one, then add to cocktail shaker.
4. Shake until chilled and combined, then strain into coupe glasses.
5. Garnish with a lemon twist and edible flowers if desired.
 
Inquisitor said:
Created at least 73 years ago to celebrate the Army-Navy football game day, this cocktail "balances the tartness of fresh lemon juice" with sweet, creamy orgeat syrup and Angostura bitters that add depth, according to Amy Traynor of MoodyMixologist.com. There, Traynor has beverage recipes for any occasion.

Ingredients
  • ¾ ounce lemon juice, fresh or bottled (if using fresh, requires 1 or 2 lemons, depending on size) + 1 lemon to make twists for garnish (optional)
  • 2 ounces gin
  • ½ ounce orgeat syrup
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters (can substitute other bitters such as chocolate or cherry)
  • Edible flowers for garnish (optional)
Instructions
1. If using fresh lemon, juice it into a small bowl.
2. Fill your cocktail shaker three-quarters full with ice.
3. Add gin, lemon juice, orgeat syrup and bitters to cocktail shaker. If using a jigger, pour and measure each ingredient into the jigger one by one, then add to cocktail shaker.
4. Shake until chilled and combined, then strain into coupe glasses.
5. Garnish with a lemon twist and edible flowers if desired.
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I have all those ingredamints except for the orgy syrup
 
 
Tin Man said:
Whiskeys straight, yeah. Clear liquor begs for accompaniments.
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Not necessarily. Bombay Sapphire martini, glance at but don't add Vermouth, and keep the olive or cocktail onion on the side so the brine doesn't pollute it.
 
Jon Deaux said:
Joplin MO

before and after

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Those aren't much different than pictures of my hometown after tornadoes there,
Or for that matter my step-father's hometown (Mayfield, KY, which we always jokingly refer to as Mayberry) this morning.
They're horrible.
That doesn't change that I'd chose a tornado over an earthquake.
I spent plenty of hours during one spring or another down in the root cellar with the transistor radio (noaa weather radio station KIH 43).
One of my earliest memories is having to go hide down there because of a tornado and being pissed because I was eating a piece of cake, and my mother wouldn't let me take it to the basement with me.
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
One of my earliest memories is having to go hide down there because of a tornado and being pissed because I was eating a piece of cake, and my mother wouldn't let me take it to the basement with me.
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"Do you want to get ants? Cause that's how you get ants"
 
Hu War Yu said:
"Do you want to get ants? Cause that's how you get ants"
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Hahaha, yeah, I was too young to remember why she wouldn't let me take it into the basement, just that she wouldn't let me take it into the basement ... and that it was my grandmother's chocolate cake, which is the same chocolate cake the Cali family has been making for, well, I think it's now on the 5th generation.
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
Hahaha, yeah, I was too young to remember why she wouldn't let me take it into the basement, just that she wouldn't let me take it into the basement ... and that it was my grandmother's chocolate cake, which is the same chocolate cake the Cali family has been making for, well, I think it's now on the 5th generation.
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We could eat in two places: the table, or the back yard. No where else in the house. And the reason was always "you'll bring ants or roaches"
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
That doesn't change that I'd chose a tornado over an earthquake.
I spent plenty of hours during one spring or another down in the root cellar with the transistor radio (noaa weather radio station KIH 43).
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The last 10-15 major (6.0 or above) earthquakes going back 25 years or more on the west coast combined probably did not kill as many people or damage as much property as what happened to one city in the Midwest last night.

Also: In an earthquake you aren't stuck in limbo for hours waiting for it to happen and pass. An earthquake is over in minutes.

I've been through a couple 6.0's in Cali and a 7.0 here.

I'll take the shaking every time.
 
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Dole ver 2.0 said:
Not necessarily. Bombay Sapphire martini, glance at but don't add Vermouth, and keep the olive or cocktail onion on the side so the brine doesn't pollute it.
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Chilled gin or vodka in a glass is not a martini. The oldest publication of a martini recipe mentions gin and dry vermouth as ingredients. The cocktail morphed from 50-50 to 5-to-1 to the absurdity of dry vermouth in misting bottles. Today, “martini” is associated with the shape of a glass more than the recipe for a cocktail.
 
Early games are Raiders-Chiefs and Seahawks-Texans (fuck!!). I wanted to see Cowboys-Redskins instead.
 
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