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The Confradiction
1 barspoon sugar
Yi lemon—juice only
1 jigger rye whiskey
Mix in a barglass. Fill with cracked ice. Clap on the shaker
dnd shake vigorously before straining into a cocktail glass.
This is the drink a Frenchman had in mind when he
walked into a New Orleans cocktail lounge and said to
the man behind the bar:
^Mix for rne, sil vous plait, a contradictions."
which? demanded the puzzled barkeep.
^^e great Am^ricain drink—a contradictions."
Never heard of it, mister . . . how's it made?"
You use whiskee to make eet strong; water to make
eet weak; lemon juice to make eet sour, an' sugar to make
eet sweet, explained the French visitor. "Zen you say:
Here to you, an' you drink eet yourself! Zat, sar, ees
zee contradictions."
Whereupon the barkeep mixed the drink-which you
will have no difficulty in recognizing as the old reliable
time-tested Whiskey Sour.
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