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do you ever think about the word cocktail

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Ancient Mystery Revealed! The Real History (Maybe) of How the Cocktail Got its Name Spirits historian David Wondrich explores the origins of mixed drinks and finds out why a cocktail is called a cocktail. Saveur

Hey if you had asked me to guess a hundred times I would never have gotten this.

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  • You are a bartender
  • You wanna make a drink.
  • Sometimes you put mixings in your drinks because fuck it, it tastes good.
  • Some of those mixings are things like ginger and pepper
  • You are a con artist
  • You wanna sell a horse
  • Everybody’s like, you know what’s a sign of a healthy happy horse? When its tail is raised
  • So you get more money for the horse if it’s got a perky tail
  • Now you could get a perky tail in that horse by having a healthy happy horse
  • OR you could irritate its butthole by shoving things up its ass
  • A lot of things that you shove up a horse’s butt to irritate its asshole are things like ginger and pepper
  • You are a bartender
  • You wanna name a drink
  • Someone points out the stuff in the drink is the same stuff you’d shove up a horses ass if you were the kind of person who shoved things up horses asses willy nilly
  • You call the drink that
  • Times change and you jump a continent and eventually that usage changes to mean basically anything mixed together
  • No one remembers it’s a word for weird horse butt suppositories