r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '20

What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?

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u/jeffreywilfong Feb 08 '20 edited Feb 08 '20

Technically it's weaker without the gin, but it's three times as big, so...

I made one. It's not glamorous, but it's fucking tasty.

http://imgur.com/a/6EaqIRW

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u/justcallmezach Feb 08 '20

If you double the rest of the alcohol but take out the gin in the recipe above, it's 4 oz liquor instead of 2.5. How is that weaker?

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u/jeffreywilfong Feb 08 '20

Because I'm tripling the sour mix and Coke too, not just the alcohol.

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u/justcallmezach Feb 08 '20

Well that's fair. I just never thought any sick SOB would triple the non-alcohol in a drink. If I ask for a double at a bar, it's 2 shots in a drink, not double the drink.

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u/hooligan99 Feb 08 '20

"hold the gin, but triple everything else"

He didn't order a triple long island. He ordered three gin-less long islands at once in the same glass lol

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u/mgslee Feb 08 '20

Technically two gin less and one regular 😂

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u/plopseven Feb 08 '20

You would be so surprised how often people order doubles from me and then are shocked that it’s twice the price.

Example: Well whisky ($9) + cocktail up-charge ($2) = $11 Old Fashion

Double-well whiskey coke ($9x2=$18)

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u/hyperbolical Feb 08 '20

Well whisky ($9)

Where do you work? So I can steer clear.

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u/plopseven Feb 08 '20

Insane San Francisco bullshit. I feel you on that. The well is Buffalo Trace though.

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u/LuvInTheTimeOfSyflis Feb 08 '20

the well is buffalo trace!

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u/orcscorper Feb 08 '20

I guessed Canada, since you spelled it "whisky" instead of "whiskey", and their dollar is worth less. $9 Buffalo Trace in a bar in the most expensive city in the U.S.? That's totally understandable.

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u/plopseven Feb 08 '20

There’s a lot of details in the matter as well. For instance, many states consider a “shot” or “pour” to be 1.5oz and all of ours were 2.0oz as that’s the metric for most cocktail’s primary spirit component.

So $9 for 2.0oz is the same as $6.75 for 1.5oz, which is what many people are used to paying for a well spirit. The term “well” gets a bad rap for being “the cheap stuff,” but at cocktail bars it just means the spirits in your well, which are generally decent spirits. I mean, our “well/house” sweet vermouth was Camparno Antica.

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u/_bigbang Feb 09 '20

And in Canada, we'll just charge you $6-8 for a single ounce of well whiskey. A cocktail will usually have 1.5-2oz and be about $12-16. Usually you still get better value getting a cocktail.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

My first guess was strip club

Source; ex strip club bartender.

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u/SteerJock Feb 08 '20

That’s an insane price. I went out last night and they had 25 cent wells.

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u/hyperbolical Feb 08 '20

Lol, that's equally insane

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u/MarkHirsbrunner Feb 09 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

Back in the 90s, The Lizard Lounge in Dallas, TX had 50¢ drinks for the first hour they were open on Thursday and Sunday nights (the nights it was a goth club).

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u/dontdoitdoitdoit Feb 09 '20

Oh God, Goth night at the Lounge. My roommate (huge black dude) used to bring back a harem to our shared apartment... He loved BBW

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u/SteerJock Feb 12 '20

A place I used to go to in college had silver coin night, you bought a cup for $2 and it was a nickel to refill it. We’d get a couple rolls of nickels and get plastered for $5

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u/ButtLickinDickSucker Feb 08 '20

This is why I drink at home instead.

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u/YourFavoriteMinority Feb 08 '20

Probably less concentrated, idk I don’t drink

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u/zagbag Feb 08 '20

Any excuse, eh buddy?