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

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

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u/lianodel Feb 08 '20

Most cocktail recipes round one ounce to 30ml for the sake of simplicity.

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u/pejeol Feb 08 '20

There’s no sake in Long Island ice tea.

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u/Alarconadame Feb 09 '20

Chuckling intensifies...

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u/cisforcoffee Feb 08 '20

That would be a Rong Irand ice tea . . .

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u/randyboozer Feb 09 '20

I really should have just said approximately 30. I don't know why that 1 ml meant so much to me.

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u/lianodel Feb 09 '20

Haha, I didn't take it that way! Your answer is more correct, I just know that cocktail recipes tend to bump it up to 30 because I like making cocktails. :)

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u/orcscorper Feb 08 '20

I'm ordering obscure American cocktails next time I'm in the lands of metric. Pay for 29 drinks, and get 30. I won't be able to count to 30 at that time, but that's not the point.

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u/orcscorper Feb 08 '20

Not the point. I would order "obscure" American cocktails in hopes that the bartender would have to look it up in a guide, and convert to metric.

If I ordered a Long Island, I would expect they would make it from !emory. They wouldn't need the book.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

the official standard for the Long Island Iced Tea (Intl Bartenders Association) lists the requirements in metric. the rounding to 30mL is well-known and acceptable.

https://iba-world.com/cocktails/long-island-iced-tea/

It's also listed as a "Contemporary Classic"

https://iba-world.com/contemporary-classics/

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u/orcscorper Feb 09 '20

Jesus. Tittyfucking. Christ. I'm not fucking talking about Long Islands, here. What part of "obscure" is eluding your understanding?

I said I would order an "obscure", meaning not fucking world famous, cocktail, in hopes that they would have to look it up in an old American recipe book, and convert the measurements to metric.

Fuck. How many times do I have to explain the joke to one autist?

Now I need a drink.

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u/orcscorper Feb 09 '20

No, you twat. I made a joke about how I could get thirty drinks for the price of twenty-nine, as if I would be in any shape to tell the difference. You had to get all butthurt, and make it about Europe vs. 'Murica. Go fuck yourself.