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What is "Five Fruits" in this 1920s cocktail recipe?
From Shake 'Em Up! A Handbook of Polite Drinking (1930), page 46:
GIN PUNCH NUMBER ONE
2 quarts of grapefruit juice
2 quarts of gin
and one quarter cup of Five Fruits or Grenadine
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Origin of the "lick, sip, suck" tequila shot technique
I was browsing through Here's How (1928), a Prohibition-era collection of cocktail recipes, and found something surprisingly familiar on page 48.
The Swiss Itch
Invented by one James Norton of ...
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Other than the USA, do any other countries have dry counties?
Other than the USA, do any other countries have dry counties?
I understand that the term county may not exist in some counties, so one can adopt a different term that may be better suited for a ...
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Has Prohibition ever worked?
Historically, is there any case in which prohibition of alcohol has actually dissuaded its consumption?
It failed miserably in the United States, for example...
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