Margarita

Silver. Rocks. Salt.  Garnished with fresh jalapenos sans seeds.

Epignosis wrote: jammun wrote: Epignosis wrote: jammun wrote: Gin?  Put an olive in the glass, pour in very cold gin generously, and you have a dry martini. Don't forget dry vermouth! In my experience, vermouth just waters it down.  You can buy olives in vermouth that do the trick.  My preferred martini is closer to a 50/50 (technically a different cocktail), and I like it extra dirty. Something like 2.5 oz of gin (or vodka), 1.5 oz of dry vermouth, a splash of olive juice, and more than one olive.

Not with you on the proportions, but I'm with you on the olives.  When drinking martinis, those olives are dinner.

Epignosis wrote: jammun wrote: Gin?  Put an olive in the glass, pour in very cold gin generously, and you have a dry martini. Don't forget dry vermouth!

In my experience, vermouth just waters it down.  You can buy olives in vermouth that do the trick. 

Gin?  Put an olive in the glass, pour in very cold gin generously, and you have a dry martini.

Angelo wrote: Buy a bottle of tonic water to go with it. Slice of lemon added and it becomes very drinkable.

Good advice (though I prefer lime).

I've never even had a margarita.  But right now I have Beefeater dry gin and would honestly mix it with anything if I had it.  This is horrible.

Angelo wrote: I'd settle for gin-n-tonic... Actually, I worked with a project manager some years back, and we travelled to the US a couple of times. In the hotel, he used to drink Margaritas all the time. And he would brag in the office: "Sure, when I'm sucking on a Margarita in the US again, I feel I'm really the man." Then one day, a big black guy from Curacao joined our project - 2 meters high, one meter wide, and his last name was Margarita. We never heard the phrase 'sucking a margarita' form that day onward...

I'd settle for gin-n-tonic...


Actually, I worked with a project manager some years back, and we travelled to the US a couple of times. In the hotel, he used to drink Margaritas all the time. And he would brag in the office: "Sure, when I'm sucking on a Margarita in the US again, I feel I'm really the man."
Then one day, a big black guy from Curacao joined our project - 2 meters high, one meter wide, and his last name was Margarita. We never heard the phrase 'sucking a margarita' form that day onward...

On the rock/salted. Best way to drink it. You get more alcohol for your money as well. 

The salt never had any appeal to me.  Fresh lime juice and good tequila and I can go on the rocks or the adult slushy version.  This if funny though.  There's a restaurant in the area called Mexico City Gourmet and they used to do a mix a margarita in your mouth.  You'd lay on your back on a table with your mouth open and they'd pour the ingredients in.  I'm fairly sure they don't offer this any more.  Probably for legal reasons.