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Blair P. Houghton said:

Totally coincidentally, I just finished a glass of Wild Turkey 101 Rye
on the rocks. Great, great stuff.

Maybe that's why this post of yours is relatively cogent for a change,
Blair...

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Best
Greg

Blair P. Houghton said:

~patches~ said:

One way to always pick out a Canadian in the US is how they order
*whiskey*. I had to stop and think - whiskey - oh yes she means rye.
Rye is our term for whiskey. We have a bottle of Hiram Walker Special
Old Rye Wiskey - that's how it's labeled -

-
Should be "Whisky" given that it's a Canadian brand. American brands
are usually "Whiskey" except for Tennessee Whisky.

I wrote it exactly as it is on the label. I suspect Hiram Walker
Distillery labels it as they see fit.

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in the liquor cabinet. We
also have Crown Royal, Wisers (one of our kids designed the box), and
Canadian Club. Those are labeled as Canadian Whiskey. A popular drink
is rye & coke. That means you want the cheaper bar rye. If you ask for
CC & coke that means you want Canadian Club. DH can tell the difference
between the better ryes and the cheap bar rye. Now where this gets
interesting is when he orders a drink in the US. Unless the place is
close to the border and has had a lot of Canadian customers, they are
totally baffled by his request of a rye & coke.

That's ludicrous, unless it's a dump that never carries rye. Rye is
the original American whiskey, though it's much less popular since
Bourbon came along. Any place that has rye will do a rye and coke
without batting an eye.

Nope, DH asked for a rye & coke at a casino in Vegas. The waitress had
no clue what it was. The next casino the same thing. That was the
general trend in Vegas that the waitresses did not know what rye was.
If he asked for CC & coke, that was a different story. This is not just
a Vegas thing either. It's happened over and over with the most recent
in Nashville. Since we don't frequent dumps, I have no idea how they
would react.

~patches~ said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

~patches~ said:

We have a bottle of Hiram Walker Special
Old Rye Wiskey - that's how it's labeled -

Should be "Whisky" given that it's a Canadian brand. American brands
are usually "Whiskey" except for Tennessee Whisky.

I wrote it exactly as it is on the label. I suspect Hiram Walker
Distillery labels it as they see fit.

Mind posting a picture? Because there are none elsewhere and it'd be
almost a unique piece of diction. The misspelling is never mentioned
along with Hiram Walker in any text, and by pure luck I found this
glass with the ordinary Canadian spelling at eBay

http://i1.tinypic.com/sfi49w.jpg

which might not be licensed merchandise and could be misspelled at any
rate.

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Nope, DH asked for a rye & coke at a casino in Vegas. The waitress had
no clue what it was.

Not surprising. Casino bartenders are drones. Did the bar have those
magnetic switch collars on the bottles to meter the pours? Those make
them drones who don't need to know how to count.

Verify the bar has rye first. It doesn't get shelf space many places
since prohibition, and "if" the bar has it (didn't I say "if"?), you'll
be in.

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton said:

~patches~ said:

Blair P. Houghton said:

~patches~ wrote:

>We have a bottle of Hiram Walker Special
>Old Rye Wiskey - that's how it's labeled -

Should be "Whisky" given that it's a Canadian brand. American brands
are usually "Whiskey" except for Tennessee Whisky.

I wrote it exactly as it is on the label. I suspect Hiram Walker
Distillery labels it as they see fit.

Mind posting a picture? Because there are none elsewhere and it'd be
almost a unique piece of diction. The misspelling is never mentioned
along with Hiram Walker in any text, and by pure luck I found this
glass with the ordinary Canadian spelling at eBay

http://i1.tinypic.com/sfi49w.jpg

which might not be licensed merchandise and could be misspelled at any
rate.

I gave up posting pics awhile ago. It's too time consuming and right
now I don't have the time to fiddle. I just started the greenhouse up
and have been doing planting in there. Then I downloaded a really nice
garden organizing software so have been playing with that in between
trips to the garden. I'm also doing a bit of canning today since DH got
my equipment out for me. There likely is a pic on their website? I
haven't checked.

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Nope, DH asked for a rye & coke at a casino in Vegas. The waitress had
no clue what it was.

Not surprising. Casino bartenders are drones. Did the bar have those
magnetic switch collars on the bottles to meter the pours? Those make
them drones who don't need to know how to count.

I never checked if they meter or not. These were the casinos downtown -
4 Queens etc as well as some on the strip like Caesar's. Maybe it was
just the waiter.

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Verify the bar has rye first. It doesn't get shelf space many places
since prohibition, and "if" the bar has it (didn't I say "if"?), you'll
be in.

--Blair