Jargon Flashcards
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(i.e. coke water, beer) served separately. positioned at the customer’s 8 o’clock.
Comfortable
add 1/2 oz Southern Comfort
After Dark
add 1/2 oz Blackberry Brandy
In the dark
add 1/2 oz Myers Dark Rum or Kahlua
Desert Dry Martini (aka Wave)
Wave Vermouth Bottle over the mixing cup when the liquor is in it.
Diaper
serve on a cocktail napkin
Doggie style
salt the rim of glass
Double
double the amount of liquor
Frappe
think slushy, served over crushed ice in cocktail glass (limoncello)
Mist
same as frappe but in a rocks glass (mint julep)
Joan Collins
John Collins without cherry (no cherry because…)
Mexican Style
add 1/2 oz Tequila
Naked or Topless
no salt
Neat
directly from bottle, room temp
NFL
no fucking lime
With a Pillow
add cream (give my dirty mother a pillow)
Pressed
add a quick splash of club soda
Quickie
same amount of alcohol but in a smaller glass (tequila sunrise in a rocks glass)
roll
build in the glass and roll it into a mixing glass and back into the original glass (i.e. black russian, so the cream is blended into the drink)
screaming
add 1/2 oz of vodka
screw/navel/driver
add OJ
Show me
show the bottle to the customer (show me martini, present the vermouth to the customer and then put it away)
Straight up
chill the liquor by either shaking or stirring and then serve in a chilled stem/cocktail glass
suspended animation
add 1/2 oz of bacardi 151
tall
same amount of liquor, more mixer, served in a tall highball/collins glass
transfer
similar to roll but you build it in the mixing glass then transfer into the serving glass
uncomfortable
add a splash of 7up and a 1/2 oz of southern comfort
up against the wall
add 1/2 oz galliano (galliano if also displayed on the last shelf, against the wall due to the long shape of the bottle)
virgin
absolutely no alcohol
