Comments on: The Drinker’s Delphi http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/ Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Cath the Canberra Cook http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Cath the Canberra Cook Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:00:56 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-325 Is there anything better than a Negroni? Is there anything better than a Negroni?

]]> By: Francis Xavier Holden http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Francis Xavier Holden Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:46:25 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-324 1) What is the most reliable saucy beverage? (y’know, nudge nudge… hip lubricant) Past experience - long ago suggests Stone's Green Ginger Wine and / or a bottle of Corio Whisky poured into a large bottle of coke. 1) What is the most reliable saucy beverage? (y’know, nudge nudge… hip lubricant)

Past experience – long ago suggests Stone’s Green Ginger Wine and / or a bottle of Corio Whisky poured into a large bottle of coke.

]]> By: Laura http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Laura Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:14:40 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-321 I actually have a real question this week. Yay me, etc. I am not allowed to have much to drink so when I can get one it assumes a possibly disproportionately large importance. So, the other night at the local tarted-up pub I ordered a meal which the menu said was a 'salad of spicy Asian greens' and a glass of reisling to drink with it. When the food came the salad was cut-up iceberg lettuce, ie Asian greens my arse. So I sent it back, of course, and ordered something else, which when it came was edible at least and if the cook had spat in it I could see no signs of same. But my new dinner did not match the wine I chose to go with the old one. In these circumstances would I have been justified in returning the glass of wine and asking for another? I actually have a real question this week. Yay me, etc. I am not allowed to have much to drink so when I can get one it assumes a possibly disproportionately large importance. So, the other night at the local tarted-up pub I ordered a meal which the menu said was a ‘salad of spicy Asian greens’ and a glass of reisling to drink with it. When the food came the salad was cut-up iceberg lettuce, ie Asian greens my arse. So I sent it back, of course, and ordered something else, which when it came was edible at least and if the cook had spat in it I could see no signs of same.

But my new dinner did not match the wine I chose to go with the old one. In these circumstances would I have been justified in returning the glass of wine and asking for another?

]]> By: harry http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-319 harry Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:54:52 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-319 How devilish are spirits on the rocks versus those that are straight? Can i get away with calling a slug of Mt Gay straight a bi-sexual? What would you call a slug of vodka, three drops of bitters and a squeeze of lime? How devilish are spirits on the rocks versus those that are straight?

Can i get away with calling a slug of Mt Gay straight a bi-sexual?

What would you call a slug of vodka, three drops of bitters and a squeeze of lime?

]]> By: ampersand duck http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-318 ampersand duck Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:17:41 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-318 Well, apart from the wrist-slapping (the cause of which I am totally unrepentant about), that was fully worth the wait. Well, apart from the wrist-slapping (the cause of which I am totally unrepentant about), that was fully worth the wait.

]]> By: FDB http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-317 FDB Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:11:29 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-317 Cheers, Sates! Although... "Brine from a jar of olives is not alcoholic, and has no place in even a quasi-martini." Not according to my favourite barlady in the world, at the Lennox Lounge in Harlem. Tanqueray, about a teaspoon of lemon juice and a dessert-spoon of brine, 2 olives. I'd ordered a dirty, she asked if I'd "like to taste her special one" - and really, I'm not the sort to refuse that kind of double-entendre without a very good reason. Cheers, Sates!

Although…

“Brine from a jar of olives is not alcoholic, and has no place in even a quasi-martini.”

Not according to my favourite barlady in the world, at the Lennox Lounge in Harlem. Tanqueray, about a teaspoon of lemon juice and a dessert-spoon of brine, 2 olives. I’d ordered a dirty, she asked if I’d “like to taste her special one” – and really, I’m not the sort to refuse that kind of double-entendre without a very good reason.

]]> By: Zoe http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/2008/06/12/the-drinkers-delphi/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Zoe Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:20:25 +0000 http://www.progressivedinnerparty.net/?p=124#comment-315 Fussy, much! I just wanted to leave a nice hostess-y comment so no-one would feel as crook as a kid with a gutful of $1.99 passion pop too shy to ask the school spunk to dance at the Year 9 disco. Anyway, Tanqueray 10 - is it twice as good as ordinary Tanqueray? Fussy, much! I just wanted to leave a nice hostess-y comment so no-one would feel as crook as a kid with a gutful of $1.99 passion pop too shy to ask the school spunk to dance at the Year 9 disco.

Anyway, Tanqueray 10 – is it twice as good as ordinary Tanqueray?

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