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Cocktail humor

Bar back

by Michael Dietsch on November 11, 2011 · 2 comments

in Cocktail humor,Serious Eats

Preparing a Serious Eats post on Thanksgiving cocktails. Someone decided to help.

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A Boy Named Glenfiddich

by Michael Dietsch on April 6, 2007 · 4 comments

in Cocktail humor,Rye,Scotch

So that’s why I’m called Glenfiddich

A MAN named after his father’s favourite whisky has travelled 4,000 miles to see the distillery that makes it.

The American, Nicholas Glenfiddich Lahren, thought to be the only person christened Glenfiddich, made a pilgrimage to the Speyside distillery where the single malt is made.

Hmmmm… How does Sazerac Dietsch sound?

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SPOON!

by Michael Dietsch on January 2, 2007 · 0 comments

in Cocktail humor

Why should it be that when I search for “bar spoon” on Amazon.com, I get this little bit of creepiness?

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I can’t reproduce the image without paying a damn expensive license fee, but Cartoonbank has a fun little mixology-related cartoon that was recently in the New Yorker. It’s worth a click. Thanks to Emdashes for the link. (I know, I know–from a computer-nerd standpoint, I could easily reproduce it, but I don’t want lawyers after [...]

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