Learning the art of the drink in a public forum. My name is Joe Peppercorn, father of 2, musician, server/bartender. This blog is a chronicle of my efforts to learn as much as I can about cocktails and drinks and how to make them and serve them.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
100 Reasons Vodka Is Kind of Lame 100-90
100. It is boring
99. It tastes like nothing in most cases
98. While it is entirely untrue that if someone drinks vodka, they are an asshole; if someone is an asshole, they are 99% of the time drinking vodka.
97. It mixes poorly with almost all Italian vermouth and liqueur (maraschino, amaro, campari, good amaretto). While a skilled bartender CAN mix vodka with these things, gin, aquavit, whiskey or even tequila makes for a much better balanced drink when working with
96. This:
95. Blue cheese stuffed olives are disgusting and have no business being anywhere near a drink. It's like putting wasabi in coffee.
94. The extra dry/extra cold vodka "martini" is a chilled double shot of vodka in an inverted cone glass and is dumb.
93. One time, when I was watching Real Housewives of New Jersey with my wife, the "Italian" guys who were some strange combination of boyfriends or husbands or in-laws, went to a vodka bar and talked about how much they loved vodka. Not sure this really counts as a reason why vodka is lame, but it at least counts as EVIDENCE that vodka is imbibed by idiots.
92. The only people that drank vodka before the 50s were Russians.
91. http://www.threeolives.com/flavor/smores
90. The lame joke that the extra dry vodka martini spawned where the bartender holds the bottle of vermouth over the shaker in lieu of putting any vermouth in the drink. Or worse, when they look at the vermouth when they pour the drink.
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