4 Responses:

1. Mariachi says:

   8 years ago at 9:31 pm

   WTF @ Cosmo flambé?

   And he didn’t muddle anything in the Old Fashioned.

   • dshea says:

     8 years ago at 8:47 am

     The only reason the recipe for an Old Fashioned says to muddle anything is because it predates granulated sugar. People started adding fruit because they felt like they should be muddling something, and then you're halfway down a sad, messy road.

     • Mariachi says:

       8 years ago at 11:40 am

       Huh, you’re right that an Old Fashioned pre-1930s didn’t involve fruit aside from a lemon peel. I did not know that.

       But granulated sugar has been around since the fifth century. Sugar cubes, OTOH, were not invented until 1843, so maybe that was the start of muddling cocktails.

2. Laura Rubin says:

   8 years ago at 2:25 am

   C+ for drink selection, B+ for costuming. But minus ten points for implying that we had shitty dubstep in 1995.