Taking Back the Martini - it was ours to begin with

[Surreal]

http://www.urbandaddy.com/dc/nightlife/ ... _Chinatown

Just because you put a drink in a martini glass, this does not make it a martini.

Big Bang theory for Drunkards = This would be the event, a singular event which led to the formation of the drunkard universe. It can be argued that the event which started it all was the creation of the martini. I'm not talking about some apple/cosmo/chocolate/pumpkin martini bullshit. I'm talking about that bowl of loud mouth soup that many of us hold near and dear to our livers.

I'm talking about the grab a bottle of gin, poured over then shaken gently over ice, drained into an appropriate glass that has sat near a bottle of dry vermouth then garnished with a lemon twist.

For me, maybe you, maybe not, that is a freakin martini. It was ours when it was invented. It's been ours ever since. It is ours to take back now.

For those of you that clicked through, I know they aren't touting it as a martini, but it kinda looked like one and I'm well into a 5th of Crown Black and the visual pissed me off.

Drunkards own the martini. Drunkards invented the martini. How these two-bit, lilly-livered, cork-sniffing, douche-bagging, metro-sexual, brand-bragging, "look-at-me-I'm-drinking-the latest-drink-highlighted-in-People-magazine" mother fuckers were allowed to take THE cocktail and twist it into some kinda joke is too much.

It's time to take back the martini. now.

that is all.

[ThirstyDrunk]

OO

[Surreal]

infinity?

[ThirstyDrunk]

Old Overholt

[Screwball]

The last week I was in Dallas I asked the little punk behind the bar for a martini he asked me "What flavor?"



I walked to a bodega and bought a 40 of Mickey's malt liquor.

For the kid's safety and me not going to jail, it was the best thing to do.

[greygoose]

while not a fan of the martini, your prose was very well-crafted and your cause is definitely a worthy one.

[Smatter Noguts]

Great rant, compadre.

Take Silver Bullets and all vodkas off the list as well; and if there's an onion it's a Gibson.

[peetie44]

Put a gin bottle to your lips, tip your head back and quit pretending.

[Surreal]

Put a gin bottle to your lips, tip your head back and quit pretending.

Brilliant.

[Fabricsoftner]

I blame vodka. People who don't like the taste of booze love it. Then they want to feel sophisticated, so the put their shitty mixed drink in a martini glass and call it a martini.

[waahoohah]

I saw a thing in the so-called "style" section of our local paper a couple of years ago, hyping up some sort of "chocolate martini".

I swear to God, the model posing for the paper's picture looked like she was holding up a glass of foamy shit to the camera. The glass had a crust on it. 'Nuff said.

I called and bitched, as I am wont to do. They did nothing, as they are wont to do.

Kids these days, I tells ya....

[Gin McGuinness]

hubby bought me one of these a few years back - the gesture kept him from being bumped off.

[felinamojokitty]

fuck all the drivel talk..

the martini is the be all end all of clear elegant and eloquent liquor drinks

divisionists!

it is gin dammnitt

you have to love the gin and the glass and the wisp of vermouth anything other than extra dry vermouth is verboten

personally as you may know i prefer lemon twist and a squeeze of lemon juice in my tipple..

i make a damn good martini a couple of folks can attest here drinking with me

*sigh* all is past now


this is the true martini anthem..gin drinkers unite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT27A6Sa10k

[NYDingbat]

Forgive me, Surreal, for I have sinned. It has been almost 20 years since I last celebrated gin.

I, despite having enjoyed the nectar of the fragrant juniper berry swaddled in tonic on a hot summer day on more than twelve occasions, have shunned The Martini.

Yay, but I have enJOYED the vodka "martini", shamefully enJOYED the heathen "cosmo" - I have even sampled, enJOYED and encouraged others to do the same with the devil's nectar itself - yes - the chocolate "martini".

As Jimmy and Tammy Faye before me, I submit my offenses for your judgment. In my defense - I never stooped to having a beertini. That very pretty glass deserves better than that.

[Savage]

Forgive me, Surreal, for I have sinned. It has been almost 20 years since I last celebrated gin.

I, despite having enjoyed the nectar of the fragrant juniper berry swaddled in tonic on a hot summer day on more than twelve occasions, have shunned The Martini.

Yay, but I have enJOYED the vodka "martini", shamefully enJOYED the heathen "cosmo" - I have even sampled, enJOYED and encouraged others to do the same with the devil's nectar itself - yes - the chocolate "martini".

As Jimmy and Tammy Faye before me, I submit my offenses for your judgment. In my defense - I never stooped to having a beertini. That very pretty glass deserves better than that.

Well, you're just such a girl. Pink little sissy mary.

But seriously, today's real martinis are ridiculous. Please. Just call it a glass of gin. Nothing wrong with that. A proper martini of my grandparents' age was 1 to 4 vermouth and gin.