If you’re going to leave the salt out, just bring me a glass of tequila.
Yeah, I read The Last Goodbye too. Each novel seems to have had its signature drink: in Farewell, My Lovely Marlowe and Moose Malloy enjoy whiskey sours in a “smoke bar.” “Smoke” being a derogatory term for an African American that I’ve never seen anywhere else.
Rose’s Lime is sugar and lime juice in a bottle. I just like to squeeze my own lime and measure my own sugar. In any case, the last time I ordered a Gimlet was in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, as my own little Chandler tribute.
I like salt on the rim. I HATE salt IN my drink. I have sent back salty margaritas. I will get all Karen on your ass about a salty margarita.
I love the salt on the margarita glass rim, but I rarely imbibe all the salt. Worse than salt on the rim? Sugar on the rim of a strawberry margarita. Ugh. Although I haven’t had one of those in about 40 years. Definitely an “introductory” drink…even more than the standard margarita.
I can deal with the salt, as I know that’s classically how they’re served (though I never salt my rims), but sugar is absolutely contraindicated. Blech.
This exactly duplicates my reply. I’m also ok with rim salting in a Bloody Mary context. My vote is Yes.
On the rocks, no salt.
I agree, although my homemade Bloody Marys are made with V-8 or Clamato (which is really a “Caesar”). Both of which are so loaded with sodium that additional salt would bring on a coronary.
Has to be margarita salt. Do not accept normal salt as a substitute.
The best cocktail etymology I’ve run across is that it’s a Prohibition-era mutation of a drink style called a Daisy, which was originally spirits, lemon juice, sweetener (alcoholic or not), and soda water.
Make it with tequila and lime juice, and leave out the soda water, and you have a Margarita on the rocks. With that in mind, I don’t think that the name is a coincidence; Margarita is Spanish for “Daisy”.
I can get behind this.