Back when I lived in New Orleans[2] my friends and I would periodically go forth to seek out the perfect margarita recipe. This was before the Internet so the main problem was avoiding the dinosaurs roaming the streets. We never did settle on one but to be honest settling on one wasn’t the point.
Last year I was motivated to try again. What a difference a meteor and a few million years makes! The streets are safe but now there’s no reason to go outside. I fired up my computer, entered “margarita” into DDG, opened up a clean spreadsheet, and started filling out ingredient columns. I thought that with enough data I’d be able to discern a pattern and derive the fundamental truth.
Immediately I noticed a pattern: sugar. No wonder people are saying they like these recipes. One drink could fuel a marathon! I decided to do some original historical research and found this obscure article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita
Which says the original recipe doesn’t include sugar. One claimant is:
2 parts tequila
1 part triple-sec
1 part lime juice
I bought premium ingredients, brought them to last year’s birthday party, and mixed up a pitcher. My guests were very polite. They liked the concoction so much they insisted on letting me have almost all of it.[3]
Clearly something has changed since circa 1940 when legends of the date of the invention of the margarita clump. Maybe people were stronger back then or maybe because everyone smoked heavily their taste buds were all shot and they needed their drinks to be able to dissolve iron.
I gave up on originalism and, consulting my spreadsheet, tried this combination:
2 parts tequila
1 part triple-sec
2 parts lime juice
1 part orange juice
Simple to remember and no sugar added![4] It’s still a strong drink by the standards of my neighborhood, both alcohol and citrus, but when poured over a glass of ice and with salt[5] I think it’s excellent. I’ve had many positive[6] comments about how it’s not too sweet.
What’s your recipe?
Footnotes:
[1] Alas, the only thing still young about me is my self-image.
[2] Now I live in Vermont. In a previous article I mentioned the problem of tractor trailer trucks getting stuck in Smuggler’s Notch. It just happened again:
https://newportdispatch.com/2022/06/28/truck-gets-stuck-in-smugglers-notch/
[3] I admit it took a while to finish.
[4] OK, cheap triple-sec contains vast tracts of sugar. But I didn’t add it.
[5] Salt or no salt? Flame war!
[6] Almost always with a request for a refill so I don’t think they were just being polite.
I usually added a dash of Rose’s lime juice. Sugar? Definitely if it’s frozen. Salt? Yes.
I got in the Rose’s habit because many bars use sour mix or lime mix. Both have sugar, but lack lime flavor.
The First Margarita Cocktail?! 1937 Picador Tequila Cocktail Cafe Royal – Cocktails After Dark
I think I’ve blacked out on tequila before so I tend to avoid it now.
rhywun! I too have a duplicate serial number start note. The serial number starts with 068.
I told a buddy at work about star notes 5-ish years ago. He got so in to it he now has a few dozen. All captured in the wild.
I too only have a few dozen. Tell him about the duplicate serial number thing.
What do you mean “duplicate serial number”?
In 2016 the literal money printer accidentally produced two sets of one dollar bills with duplicate serial numbers. All star notes. A matched pair in excellent condition recently sold for $15K.
Oh shit! Did not know about that. Haven’t been keeping up on my numismatic news. Gotta tell my friend about this.
What does the star mean?
@Richard – mine starts with 038
Weirdly, most of my bills are NOT New York B’s.
They were when I was younger.
It denotes that it is a replacement note for bills that were damaged in the printing process.
Which makes it an even bigger f’up that they’d reprint them.
Ah, huh.
I have a small hoard of about forty singles, only two with a star. This one and another one from Dallas.
Star notes are those that have a star after the serial number instead of a letter. They’re printed to be replacements for when regularly printed notes are botched. Finding a star note in circulation is like how finding an S mint mark penny used to be.
I have maybe a dozen star note ones and one star note five after years of looking.
I was a child coin nerd so I remember this well.
I had a star note one in my wallet the other night but it didn’t have the other criteria you guys were talking about so I left it in there, I apparently have since spent it.
Your loss. Circulated star notes have a market value of one dollar.
You think?
Well, that’s what they told me.
Ha. I had a bad experience with “tequila” in my younger days. and for years just the smell of it would make me sick.
But then I realized it was just Cuervo, not real tequila.
Were you possibly inspired by my old forum post? Fortunately, I’ve regained by missing ability to make margaritas, and have been enjoying a few lately.
4 parts tequila Blanco (I’m liking Casamigos these days – it adds a very faint coconut accent to the finished cocktail.)
3 parts Cointreau
2 parts fresh lime juice
Shake over ice. Salt is optional.
Dinosaurs remember, because I don’t recall your post. I’ve been pondering this one for a few years so I hope it was some time ago.
I sent my recipe to one of my olde N.O. friends who was aghast at the orange juice. I hadn’t heard of OJ in margaritas before either moving to Vermont but it seems perfectly symmetrical to the triple-sec to me.
I think the problem is too many people expect a margarita to taste like a daquiri.
Ayo. They’re both good, but should taste very different.
Relevant
Tequila, soda and lime juice is one of my go-tos if the place only has the sugary shit.
What’s your favorite tequila for your recipe?
This is embarrassing. Literally whatever’s cheapest. Olde may I be but my purpose in drinking alcohol hasn’t changed at all.
Not embarrassing at all. Tequila snobs are even more ridiculous than wine, beer or bourbon snobs.
It’s a buzz delivery medium – drink whatever you like!
Agreed. Doesn’t have to be pricey to taste good!
One time in Mexico I struck up convo with some filthy rich expat who was drinking tequila ordered by the resort just for him. He shared a good portion of the bottle with me probably because he was completely bewitched by my fiancé. Long story short, it rivaled any of the best scotch I have ever had and completely destroyed my opinion of tequila as just cheap booze made from ‘cactus’.
We used to bring back a tequila from Mexico called Centinario. As you say, it was as good as a fine Scotch. I called it “sippin’ tequila” because, like a fine whisky, you took little nips rather than slam a shot with salt and lime.
3 oz. Tequila
1 oz Salerno Blood Orange Liqueur
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz agave nectar
You’re welcome.
I had to ask my town’s[1] liquor store to stock lime juice. Really.[2] I can’t imagine what the reaction would be if I asked them to stock agave nectar.
Footnotes:
[1] Imagine the smallest concentration of people you’d think of as a town. No, it’s not that big.
[1] I’m using “really” here because I think I’m wearing out “literally”.
Legit LOL
If your town has a liquor store, it’s not that small. The entire county I grew up in doesn’t have a liquor store; gotta get your off-sale at one of the seven bars.
My town’s liquor store is mostly a gas station. Until the late stupidness it also had a good selection of ammo.
There are (or were: they’ve mostly gone defunct) small towns in New Mexico that consist only of a bar. The bar in Llaves, NM, was only open during hunting season.
I was starting to think you grew up in a dry county until you mentioned the bars.
Did your county even have a town?
Nine towns; county population around 3,000.
I’ve got this recipe for artisanale lime juice you should try. Way better than the store bought stuff.
WTF is artisanal lime juice?
Fresh squeezed?
Zoom is waiting for you.
This guy gets it.
Like artisanal s-. You know what? Never mind.
Alas, the only thing still young about me is my self-image.
I have that problem too.
Yes, I know there are older people than me here.
Try Midori instead of lime juice.
I did a WTF as that means “green” in Japanese. I just looked and it’s a Suntory product. Ok, that makes sense now.
Obligatory now.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170612/p2a/00m/0na/010000c
OT:
Has anyone mentioned the latest good news from SCOTUS?
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2022/07/01/scotus-vacates-assault-weapons-ban-high-capacity-mag-ban/
Yes.
I’m mostly annoyed because the final rulings will only apply to the various circuits since no merits ruling came from SCOTUS. So we’ll have to re-litigate all of them locally.
If I didn’t think it was actually the other way around, I’d think the Supreme Court was acting like a consultant and creating opportunities for subsequent work.
Tbf “the right of the people…shall not be infringed” leaves a lot of wiggle room in our federalist system. ///jk
I didn’t know that happened. I hope CA’s 10 round limit for magazines gets tossed. That will make it a lot easier (and possibly cheaper) to buy a pistol.
OT – I hate it when I find the actual term for an object or feature, but know that if I use it, most readers won’t recognize the word and it doesn’t help paint the mental picture for the story.
It’s a Prang, but how many people would draw Ankor Wat from the term?
Stephen R. Donaldson didn’t have that problem. Just about once per paragraph I was reaching for a dictionary.
There are times when that works, but when painting a picture with words, making the reader break away from the paragraph disrupts the imagery.
All you have to do is fat-finger the word to define it.
/what’s a paperback?
If I read “Prang,” I’d think “pretty colors.” It would paint a mental picture (and then I’d probably go buy some to paint a literal picture,) but not necessarily the picture you had in mind.
I’m fine with the original. My lazy easy shortcut is using some Simply Limeade. The sugar in the limeade is enough to sweeten it up a little.
1) Grab beer.
2) Open beer.
3) Consume beer.
Alternatively…
1) Grab wine.
2) Open wine.
3) Pour wine.
4) Consume wine.
Chill/ice as desired.
I’m outside on my Adirondack chair. Guess what I’m drinking? A patch of rain went north leaving my sky with big fluffy clouds that turned bright orange as the sun set. I’m wearing permeation-infused clothes so the bug aren’t bothering me except they are crawling around the computer’s screen. Shit. I’m getting maudlin.
I am making a rum punch. Orange and Pineapple juice, Rose’s grenadine, dark and white Bacardi Rum. Nice and cheap. Delicious in heat.
One of my family’s heirlooms is my grandfather’s liquor recipe book. My brother has it so I can’t quote the details but it’s clear what my GF’s favorite punch was. It’s like:
– a bottle of this liqueur
– a bottle of that liqueur
– a bottle of champagne
– an entire fresh pineapple
We’d like to make it up here in north nowhere Vermont but the fresh pineapple requirement is difficult.
Delicious!
Hey, if your girlfriend wants you to consume pineapple, you should consume pineapple.
That’s a new euphemism.
That’s not a euphemism, it’s actual advice.
There are supplements that help. I’ve tried one, years ago. Reports from the field (ahem) were favourable, but the supplements (made from fruit extracts, mostly) weren’t cheap.
More than $20 (same as downtown.)?
Yes, unfortunately. Otherwise I’d still be using them.
I s’pose I could roll my own, but that would involve quite a bit of R&D (not the fun kind, though I’m sure that would come into play at some later point…).
Neighbors are already doing fireworks in these parts. Should be a fun weekend.
No fireworks so far this evening but I am watching fireflies.
I can see a pretty big display out my living room window – it’s over either the nearby golf course or the VA center or the army fort.
Fireworks are competing with thunder here in SW OH. I’m rooting for thunder.
Not guilty.
As a successful entrepreneur and heiress, Savannah Daisley was used to the high life – but this week, everything changed.
Police allege the North Shore woman had sex with a 14-year-old child on four occasions last year, and on Tuesday this week, she faced Waverley Court after being charged with four counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between 14 and 16 years old.
Ms Daisley, who was refused bail, has strenuously denied the allegations and intends to plead not guilty.
Covered that yesterday, I think.
Feels kinda weird to charge someone where the victim will be furiously masturbating to the memory for the next decade or so.
It does, but if you reverse the sexes it points to an interesting double standard.
Assuredly
Why does someone who looks like her need to boink a 14 y.o.? Half the men in Oz would jump at the chance for a jump.
Perhaps she really is innocent?
Who knows. People be crazy.
Or, she didn’t.
I use:
the juice of 1.5 limes
1-1/8 oz triple sec
2 oz tequila (plata)
splash of Grand Marnier to taste
over rocks
This channel is neat for anyone who likes
sugary abominationsmixed drinks.Ladies (hypothetical) and gentlemen, both my computer and my cell phone hotspot are running out of power. I look forward to reading any subsequent discussion tomorrow after the clouds have cleared and I can recharge.
2 parts tequila
1 part triple-sec
1 part lime juice
Simple as that. It’s called a margarita. But I don’t drink them. I prefer a fine glass of tequila, and a Pacifico back.
Back when I lived in New Orleans[2] my friends and I would periodically go forth to seek out the perfect margarita recipe.
This is like looking for the best Tom & Jerry in Waikiki.
Blue Hawai’i, but otherwise, yeah.
It’s happened again in the Philly burbs: another road rage incident with a shooting death. Latest case: little old Vietnamese immigrant driving “too slow” during rush hour. Passenger in the offended driver’s vehicle, jumps out of car at the next stop and unloads on the car, killing the driver’s husband. This is maybe the third time I remember this kind of road rage leading to a killing in this area. What are the shooters thinking when they do this? : “It’s worth 25 years in prison to ‘show him?'” Give the person the finger or shout, but shoot? Someone cut you off, or is in your lane, or gave you the finger first. Why is that worth their life, and yours???
25 years in prison is not enough for a cold-blooded murder like that.
A few years back there was an incident where some guy cut off some other guy to get to an exit. Other guy opened fire on the offending car and killed a six year-old girl.
That’ll show ’em!
I don’t believe they are thinking. They are childishly reacting. If what I’m reading about Krassner is true, they don’t much to fear by behaving this way.
https://i.imgur.com/EP8HEgQ.mp4
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/TaJDH/a47ccd64903bbadfb17a4b377ae6928ccd6b2da4.webp
NSFW.
https://thumbs2.redgifs.com/AttachedMelodicBordercollie-mobile.mp4#t=0
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/6gmrD/db18fc3b920ec44fffc45983d0e2e1aeb0f72e5a.webp
NSFW.
Ohhhh…
I’ll be in my bunk.
Someone is getting back at daddy.
I’ll take 2 and 4
Sorry about that abrupt leave-taking. The subject of my gossip unexpectedly came to our temporary abode.
My recipe? Romanian breakfast,
Coffee and cigarettes
/then Beer
Blood of a virgin?
Pie’s blood pudding?
Vlad’s hat?
I never heard that refered to as romanian, maybe slav breakfast
Definitely French, particularly in the Midi.
I’m all alone in the Zoom room. It’s dark and scary 🙁
Don’t start Toobin.
Most tequila is shite. Most mezcal is shite.
But Bacanora? Elixir of the gods. Which is why it’s almost impossible to find.
Only to be sipped straight and neat.
margarita is a low class drink. I would not touch it.
There ia something weird about bucharest airport. No lines anywhere while.most of europe has huge delays in airports. I passed security and passport control in like 3 minute total. Took me 22 minutes from leaving home to getting to the gate.
If in an airport, is it socially acceptable to drink a beer at 7 AM?
That’s acceptable everywhere but in a church. Then you drink wine.
Yes. And any other alcohol.
But stay classy — order some breakfast, too.
In some places, it’s required.
Yes. Airports are not subject to any time etiquette.
Well, they are, but if there’s any place on Earth where the phrase “It’s always five o’clock somewhere in the British Empire” has any meaning, it’s an airport.
What is tine etiquette? I used to work graves. I’d have a beer with my before sleep meal (“breakfast”).
Graverobbing without a beer after is questionable anyway
Abby Normal.
What is tine etiquette?
Don’t fork with me!
I can’t imagine why the NYC subway isn’t more popular.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/01/chuckie-doll-attack-new-york-city-subway-video-actor-instagram/
LOL
How is your B5 watching going?
On S02E07.
I know what law the Supreme Court will strike down in 3 years.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/new-york-bill-require-social-media-history-gun-permit
At this point, it’s just waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Ridiculous. God she is so fucking stupid. I should say they – they all push this stuff. Who’s going to tell her that criminals don’t apply for gun permits?
They know that. The point is to make you comply.
My goodness, don’t they know they have to have permit to own a gun? Otherwise robbery is against the law and the criminal could get in trouble.
What are the odds that a federal judge in NY will actually enjoin the newly-passed statutes as soon as a lawsuit is filed?
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I have no idea if the club I’m visiting cancels matches on account of rain. I guess I’ll find out.
suh’ fam
whats goody yo
Reading briefly about margaritas made me think of Mexico.
That made me think of this:
What do you call a 5-man gay mariachi band?
Juan Direction
Good morning, homey, NA, SDF-7, 4(20), Tulip, and rhy! It’s a bit cloudy here at Tranquility Base this morning after last night’s rain, but not unpleasant. At 71 degrees ‘Murcan, it’s already a trifle too warm for my Dragons hoodie.
This week we noticed that one of the neighbor’s outdoor cats, a long-haired black cat named Lucifer, has taken a liking to napping on TB’s futon, particularly in the late afternoon and early evening. This morning when I came outside, he was standing by the far corner of the futon and skittered away. (He’s a shy guy.) He’d obviously been on the futon since last night – I’d come out to take off the wearing-away nail polish strips from my last manicure and had swept off the futon – because there was a little circle of dust and debris at his accustomed spot, luckily on the far side of the futon from where I sit. He is, after all, essentially a fuzzy black Swiffer with ears. (Note to self: suggest to his humans that they rename him LuSwiffer.)
Good morning GT
Good morning, Lack! 😃
I am taking 82 degrees with 85% humidity over 100+ of ‘dry heat at the moment. So far North Carolina has been nice. We trek down to S.C. today. Met some really nice folks in a small town we just found after we turned off GPS and drove last night.
Safe and happy travels! 🛣🚙
Thank you!
Nice. My brother is in Apex,NC and there’s a lot to like down there.
Mornin Glibs.
Good morning, Sean! 👍🏼👍🏼
😉
Morning folks,
Another beautiful day in the woods. The mosquitoes have let up a lot, some still available. My bee partner is supposed to show up today, hopefully we’ll see some positive results today. Lots of flowers now.
🍳☕🐝
Morning
😎
.38 prices are still too high.
https://www.sgammo.com/catalog/pistol-ammo-sale/38-special-ammo
My recipe is
1 part Cointreau
2 parts tequila
4 parts mixer.
I usually splurge for a good mixer, and often throw in an extra dash of tequila.
For mixed drinks, I usually go with El Padrino anejo. I used to keep a bottle of don julio 1942 for sipping but that shit got way overpriced ($160 if you can find it) so now I use casa noble anejo.
https://mobile.twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1542855207624794114
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I just finished up teaching the kiddo to ride a two wheeler. It took about 10 minutes. Three passes with me holding the seat to varying degrees, and she was good to go. She has been riding a balance bike for a couple months, and I think that massive accelerated the process.