Cocktail is called CockTail Because CockMouth is always busy in CHUGGA.
2006-11-28 20:17:50
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answered by Anonymous
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There are several plausible theories as to the origin of the term "cocktail". Among them are:
Colonial taverns kept their spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, applejack) in casks, and as the liquid in the casks lowered, the spirits would tend to lose both flavor and potency, so the tavern keeper would have an additional cask into which the tailings from the low casks could be combined and sold at a reduced price, the patrons requesting the "**** tailings" or the tailings from the stop **** of the cask. This was H.L. Mencken's belief.
Cocktails were originally a morning beverage, and the cocktail was the name given as metaphor for the rooster (cocktail) heralding morning light of day. This was first posited in 2004 by Ted Haigh in "Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails", and can be distinguished from the theory "take two snips of the hair of the dog that bit you", which refers to consuming a small bit of alcohol the morning after a "binge drinking night" to curb the effects of the symptoms of the hangover, which symptoms are actually the result of a mini-withdrawal/down-regulation effect.
Some say that it was customary to put a feather, presumably from a ****'s tail, in the drink to serve both as decoration and to signal to teetotalers that the drink contained alcohol. However, some also say otherwise.
Another etymology is that the term is derived from coquetier, a French egg-cup which was used to serve the beverage in New Orleans in the early 19th century.[1]
The beverage was named for a mixed breed horse, known as a "****-tail" as the beverage, like the horse, was neither strictly spirit nor wine - it was a mixed breed.
The word could also be a distortion of Latin [aqua] decocta, meaning "distilled water".
Non-alcoholic cocktails are referred to as being "Virgin Cocktails", free from the "sin" of alcohol consumption. They are also known as "mocktails" in India and parts of the United States.
2006-11-25 17:04:05
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answered by Anonymous
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H. L. Mencken once called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet", and E. B. White called it "the elixir of quietude". It is also the proverbial drink of the one-time "three-martini lunch" of business executives, now largely abandoned as part of companies' "fitness for duty" programs.
2006-11-25 16:45:15
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answered by Matthew N 5
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You get enough of them in a lady you are gonna get your **** in some tail.
2006-11-25 16:44:13
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answered by jon 3
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