# What kind of bartender can't mix a martini? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250 "2019-09-15T05:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250/161 "2019-09-25T03:58:53Z")
Drop olive into martini glass. Pour a finger +/- of olive juice. Pour martini. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250/162 "2019-09-25T08:26:36Z")
Today I tried [this](https://www.brewbound.com/news/sprecher-brewery-releases-wisconsin-old-fashioned-press-hard-seltzer). Seems Sprecher is jumping on the hard seltzer craze. Carbs a bit higher than most hard seltzers. Didn’t taste terrible. Taste and consistency like the very end of an Old fashioned. You know, when the ice has melted and watered down the last of your drink. Like teasing your palate with flavor that just isn’t there anymore. Wouldn’t dream of drinking this again. Not by itself, anyway. But it actual would be good to use as the press when making Old Fashioneds. And it still was better than the “Old Fashioned” cocktail I was served in phoenix. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250/163 "2019-09-29T08:50:21Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I learned many years ago never to order a martini unless I am in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. > > And NEVER ask for one outside the U.S. You should be drinking the local concoctions anyway. Went to a company dinner and my boss at the time asked me if I wanted a cocktail. I asked him what he was drinking - it was something ginger-ale colored, with ice, in an old-fashioned glass, with an extra-long toothpick threaded with an olive or two. He told me it was a martini. I declined. > [@Anny\_Middon](#): > > That’s the classic Brandy Alexander. I’m pretty sure the classic Grasshopper isn’t an ice cream drink, either. But the supper club version of these is sometimes as ice cream drinks. Any time we took my grandmother out for dinner, she asked for a Brandy Alexander. Most bartenders had no idea what she wanted. When she did get one, it was normally with cream, not ice cream. When she got the question, “ice cream or cream”, she knew she hit the jackpot. She also chose ice cream and would make them at home with ice cream. Went to the new Mexican restaurant and ordered a margarita, on the rocks. Nope. No chance. Most of the locals had only had frozen margaritas and did not know that on the rocks is possible. Only us (American) and one coworker (Italian) knew that there are different ways to serve a margarita. I went to that Mexican restaurant twice, but no more. I have heard from others is the only safe bet is to order a bottle of beer and ask them to bring it you unopened. They can’t even pour beer. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250/164 "2019-10-06T22:41:53Z")
In _The Firm_ Gene Hackman’s character laid bare the evil in his nature by ordering a martini **on the rocks**. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bartender-cant-mix-a-martini/840250.md?page=8)