Restating the "Riverside Cocktail" question

[ellen_kushner]

Loving everyone's suggestions for cocktails for Swordspoint!

It is, however, hard for me to imagine the actual people on the Hill or Riverside doing mixed drinks.  --Though maybe that's my folly? The whole point of inventing that world was that it was a glorious stew of everything I particularly like.  Maybe I need to spend more time down at Death

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[jry]

I don't know what the cocktail would be, but I do know that it has to have a garnish of some kind so that said garnish can be pierced by one of those little plastic swords.

[ellen_kushner]

But of course! That's already covered in the previous post:
http://ellen-kushner.livejournal.com/365650.html

You'll probably like the cocktails there, too.

[jry]

What I get for reading my Friends from the top down. Yay plastic swords!

[ellen_kushner]

Because it would be so wrong of me to neglect the obvious.

[ljgeoff]

I can totally see cocktails on the Hill, and in Riverside, too. A cocktail is a foodie's drink. It's fun and indulgent.

[ljgeoff]

For a sophisticated, sweet drink: The Red and the Black -- goes to Food and Wine.

- black pepper infused syrup
- muddled strawberries
- blanco tequila
- lime juice

[ellen_kushner]

That sounds crazygood. And, yeah, appropriate.

[foi_nefaste]

Well, if it helps at all, part of the advantage of cocktails is that you can use utterly shit liquor, and, as long as your mixers are sweet/citrus-y enough, it'll taste decent (why do you think coke is such a popular mixer? You can hide anything in that!)

[heartofoshun]

I'm pretty sure that cocktails became so popular in the US during Prohibition in order to hide the poor quality of bathtub gin. That concept would work for Riverside--cheap alcohol hidden in mixers.

[tylik]

And here I was imagining a backstory based on Riversiders stealing bits of this and that from the houses of the well to do who were out of town, perhaps involving unsanctioned social gatherings.

More practially, purloined goods from those in the (perhaps temporary) employ of the well to do?

It also has such a sense of what children do with alcohol. Hm...

[ellen_kushner]

Is there anyone who did NOT try mixing something from half the bottles in their parents' liquor cabinet when they were at that difficult age?

I love it! I can just imagine. I may have to invent a whole new character who makes it a specialty. I will probably forget to credit you - but you can come after me with a loaded seltzer bottle.