• Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Well, duh, to make a dry martini, you are suppose to dry all the liquid ingredients in a tumble dryer first before you mix them, of course.

    Why else do you think James Bond always asks for his “dry” vodka martini to be “shaken, not stirred”?

    Source: former bartender and current frontrunner to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond

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      8 months ago

      As you obviously understand the best way to properly dry a martini (what kind of loon would line dry the component liquids), you have my vote!

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    8 months ago

    I was wondering this too, so I looked it up

    From Google:

    First, ‘dry’ indicates that very little vermouth has been added to the cocktail, so the gin is the primary focus. The typical ratio is 6 parts gin to 1 part vermouth. However, order ‘extra dry’ and you’ll get the slightest splash of vermouth, or even just a glass-coating wash.

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      When talking about alcoholic drinks, “dry” is just the opposite of sweet. Vermouth has a slight sweetness to it, so use less vermouth to make the drink “dry”.

      Personally I like my martinis “dirty” (extra olive juice), with a good amount of vermouth. Sweet and salty with the floral notes of the gin in the background. If I wanted to just taste the gin then I’d put it in a shot glass and drink it straight instead.

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        8 months ago

        I just want to second the dirty gin martini.

        I’ve never been a fan of the martini, but dirty gin is excellent.

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      My city has a “no straight spirits” rule for bars, it’s a failed attempt to stop binge drinking

      So I would order whisky on the rocks, hold the ice

      Were I a gin fan it would be a “perfectly dry martini”

      The bar staff agree the rule is stupid and are usually happy to work around them. Binge drinking in bars hardly happens anyway as it is too expensive, we have very high alcohol taxes, except on wine.

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    8 months ago

    My buddy went to the bar at university and asked for a manhattan to see what they’d do, they handed him a bud light.

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    8 months ago

    Pro tip: Use molten lava. Lava is a liquid, but I don’t think anyone describes it as “wet”.

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      Lava doesn’t adhere to a surface like water, it won’t climb the walls of it container slightly. That is to say, it won’t wet a surface, like water or flux will.

      At least I don’t think any kinds of lava or magma do. Maybe there’s a variety that does?

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    Idiot. You’re supposed to mix a nartinit, drink it, and give her the dry glass. Bro probably just cock blocked himself.

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        Yeah, but I was reading it to myself in my head and the statement sounds incomplete. Like the guy hit “tweet” too soon and then just didn’t correct it

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      I’ll explain as if your first language is not English.

      Dry means something that has no moisture in it, like sand can be dry or wet.

      Obviously something dry contains no moisture or liquids.

      A Martini is a cocktail, mixed from mostly gin and vermouth. In this context, dry means “little vermouth”, so the taste of the gin is most prevalent.

      So the joke is between the two different meanings of the word, as obviously a dry cocktail makes no sense if you take the first meaning of the word.

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    8 months ago

    “I’l have …” - No, you don’t. You may get it, if you ask for it. I hate when people use that snobby way of stating that they already have what they trying to get!

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      You’d really hate idioms. They don’t even make any sense, unlike the phrase here

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        It depends, I propably won’t understand the most english idioms, but I am able to hate the ones in my native language, because some of them are very stupid. ^^

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          The “I’ll have the beef” way of stating an order doesn’t come off as rude or imposing. There are only a few ways of saying what you want and people like variety, perhaps it’s that which makes it a normal phrase

          If you don’t like being wrong (“I’ll have the spaghetti”; “no you won’t, we’ve sold out”) you can use phrases like “may I get …” or “I would like …” or in reply to whatever the waiter asks “the pasta marinara” with no introductory words