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Zombian:
I oz. amber rum
I oz. silver rum
I oz. Jamaica rum
4 dashes cherry brandy
4 dashes apricot brandy
I dash papaya juice
juice of half lime
Serve in tall glass with cracked ice. Top
with
%
oz. 151 proof rum. Stir. Decorate
with green and red cherry and slice of
orange. Serve with straws.
Nobody seems ever with any impressive degree
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persuasiveness to
have been able to say just when such arrangements as a Zombie
should he served
(i£
ever) and present any logical reason why one
time
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day or night is any better (or worse) suited to their inhalation.
True purists will scream that all mixed drinks save, perhaps, a ver–
mouth cassis or gin and bitters are an abomination, and as such
we have no concern with their cant. The fact stands that many people
like many drinks at many times; some even going on record to the
effect th11t they like all drinks at any time. The author of this book
makes no attempt, save along the broadest
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conceivable lines, to
indicate the propriety
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any given drink at any given time. The
only person fit to he an arbiter in such matters is th_e consumer him–
self who will, in any case, drink just as he pleases in complete and
magnificent disregard for what any authority in the matter may say.
Anyhow, the author's Uncle Ned, who early
in
life
absented himself
from Framingham, Massachusetts, to live in Paris where he wore for
many decades t:P.e same pearl gray derby and made astonishing sums
0£
money playing roulette at the Banker's Club, believed the best
time to drink an Haute Sauterne was at breakfast. The admission of
this family solecism has always seemed an adequate excuse for the
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