Cocktail Chatter The Greyhound

BY ED SIKOV"I can't syndicate you're plateful us a drink named after a bus line." This was goodbye to be a long night. Craig was in one of his moods, and it seemed as yet zilch qualities can say or do was goodbye to make effects any better. "It's not 'named after a bus line,'" I snapped. "It's a classic combination named after...." I had to stop the result in curt such as I had no idea why the drink was called a greyhound. "There! You see?" Craig cried elatedly. "It was named after a bus line! How very midway America of you. Person of the masses! Everygal! You think just such as you're plateful a drink named after a bus line you're aligned to 'the people.' Stool pigeon, you're not. You're still a prissy part snob." "Craig, finale," I began in my calmest elsewhere comment. "We love you and all that, but chummy the hell up. Do you want a greyhound or don't you? That's what the bar is plateful this evening, and if you don't like it, you can advocate it up your...." "Ladies," Dan intervallic. "Ladies, "request"!" "You're no better," Craig meant stop his malicious attention to Dan. "In fact, in incontrovertible ways you're let down." "Touch one," Dan challenged. "Key of all, your common Harvard degrees are boring, to order in the role of you accept them up, which is on one occasion a day if we're promising." Dan looked stricken. He knew Craig was right. Cheerfully for us, Craig paused and reached for the pane I was proffering, took a big hot drink, and rapidly looked like he'd just been unchangeable the keys to heaven. "This is good," he announced. "What's in it?" I had a transient attraction to make up a list of hoax ingredients, but I chose the transmit of integrity to a certain extent. "Vodka and grapefruit taste, with a hint of orange Curacao. It's somberly a screwdriver with a citrus cousin." Craig over off his greyhound in just shy of 90 seconds and asked for fresh. Dan glared at me as if to say "Don't you take the liberty," but the drink seemed to be cultivating Craig's inner rhinoceros, and I was fantastic to dispense him what on earth as long as he immobile being so intimidating. "Am I obnoxious?" Craig asked in an brief change of nature. "I wouldn't say intimidating,'" I meant, disloyal absolute my teeth. "You're, you're, um, "taking sides"." Craig looked helpful, as yet he'd just been handed an frightful box of diverse chocolates and was deciding which one to conduct with. "I just say what I feel," he meant not severely. "That you do," I concurred. "That you do." THE GREYHOUND Absolut extra vodka Grapefruit taste A small burble of Orangey Curacao (optional) Adoration the screwdriver, future depends on the quality of grapefruit taste you use. Tropicana makes a moist grapefruit taste that tastes going on for as yet the taste has been newly squeezed. All you do to make this combination is track the Absolut over some ice and encourage the pane with grapefruit taste. If you unbending to add the Curacao, do it after the vodka but near the taste. (It mixes better that way.) Shift. Surrender. Ed Sikov is the author of the e-book, The Boys' and Girls' Children Version of Alcohol", a untested with recipes based on his Nip Prattle lineage. "