Blank-tini
Two nights ago when I was at dinner in Chelsea, a waiter charged at me with a small glass filled with orange fluid and orange crystals sticking to the rim.
“Care for a Tang-tini? It’s made with Tang, like the astronauts used to drink,” he said.
I accepted with trepidation and ventured a sip. The smack of saccharine was so cloying that I rushed to find a side table where I could ditch the drink. Fortunately there was also Pol Roger rose 1998 being poured. Pink was much better than orange.
Clearly almost any drink can be sold now simply by adding the suffix “-tini.” This happened during Fashion Week when fashionistas swilled “eccotinis” made with Gallo wine. Hmm, it must be time to launch “tini” into space with the Tang.
Feb
24
2006
On February 24th, 2006 at 6:05 pm ,tduchesne wrote:
Dr. Vino, you joke but a “tang-tini” in space may not be so far fetched.
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/InTheNews/Etc/1116636394.html
On February 24th, 2006 at 8:48 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Those crazy cosmonauts! 😉
On February 24th, 2006 at 8:56 pm ,tduchesne wrote:
you have no idea 😉
On March 1st, 2006 at 10:28 pm ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert said served up a “truth-tini: two parts vodka, zero part fact.”
OK Colbert can do it. But the rest of you…