I have invented a drink!

[missroserose]

San Francisco Fag

1 part pineapple vodka
1 part Midori
orange-mango juice

Build over ice in a rocks glass. Pour juice on top and stir. (Alternatively, double the amounts and use a collins glass.)


Critical Thinking Questions
Why is this drink called a "San Francisco Fag"?
Could there be more than one reason?
Why do drink names often use terms deemed socially unacceptable?
Is the term "San Francisco Fag" redundant?

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

And your spelling is still impeccable. You're either relying on Firefox's spell-check or you're just that good.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Much as I hate to toot my own horn, I'd say it's actually the latter. I was in the spelling bee every year of elementary and middle school, and my attorney mother (who can't spell worth a damn, by her own admission) used to use me as her "talking dictionary"...

That said, I have noticed that I tend to lose track of my train of thought more easily. More than once I've found myself staring at the screen, fingers poised over keys going "What was I going to say?"

Fortunately, I've never been much past the giggly stage of drunk, so the occasional brain-fart will probably be the only symptom we ever see. (Famous last words, I know.)

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Some of my f-list's most awesome posts have come after one (or perhaps five) too many. It's wonderful to see how badly grammar, punctuation, spelling, and perhaps basic operation of the keyboard disintegrates and how utterly blissful they are about the entire shambles. And that they manage to post at all can just be attributed to auto-complete and muscle memory. (And too much further and they're in the kitchen trying to post their update to the bread machine.)

I have four or five words that always befuddle me. Otherwise I do notice that some words do just look...wrong. My spelling is...I'll just say "above par," which I understand in this culture and especially this medium just means "literate," but occasionally Firefox will find something I miss, once or twice a day, really.

(I was a fill-in copy editor for just four hours back in September '01, on that Thursday, actually, because one of our copy editors was supposed to have been on a plane earlier that week, and held up admirably until Thursday when -- no doubt helped by reading story after story from the AP -- she just fell apart and I sent her home. But that's the closest I've ever come to putting that spelling to truly practical use.)

And sadly, I don't drink, and I don't have any medication that impairs my spelling anymore. I did used to have medication that progressively impaired my ability to operate my fingers and then my hands (and then it's like OMG, I've got giant hams on the end of my arms), but I could still spell. Which is hard to prove when you can't type and forget how to talk....

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the effects of a San Francisco Fag on an empty stomach or what, but the idea of that feeling of "OMG I've got giant hams on the ends of my arms" is simultaneously terrifying and hilarious. As is the idea of someone trying to post to LJ on the bread machine - terrifying because you know it's actually happened at least once. =D

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I almost forgot:

1. Oh, God, I have no idea, and I'm not sure I want to know, do I?
2. I hope so. I think.
3. I like to think it's a defense mechanism to prevent them from being co-opted by the parasitic merchandising monoculture. Or maybe it's just to be wicked kewl.
4. Nope. Harmonious, perhaps, but not quite redundant.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're expecting me to tell you the answers, now, aren't you? At least to the first couple. I'm sorry, you'll just have to think harder than that. ;) (Or wait until tomorrow morning and I'm feeling slightly hungover and don't want to play this game anymore.)

Incidentally, however, I love your answer to #4. :D

[vindaloo-vixen.livejournal.com]

Being an Australian as well as someone who generally speaks British English, even with the 'San Francisco' in front, I still think of 'fag' as meaning 'cigarette'.

Which puts me off this drink, 'cos I'm sure drinking cigarettes would be awful!

[tygenco-x.livejournal.com]

Verily. Perhaps something more along the line of 'San Francisco Poof'? (Forgive me for not being quite able to remember the terminology correctly this morning; was up all night cleaning my home)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Good point. I remember being told in school that the term "faggot" actually came from the same root as the cigarette slang, i.e. a bundle of wood for burning...albeit in the case of a homosexual, it was because they used to burn them at the stake. (But given the sometimes-questionable quality of information in American schools, I'm not going to cite that as gospel just yet.)

Personally, though, I liked the sound of it because of the alliteration, and because (thanks to being a super-liberal Savage Love (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove) reading American), most people will know what I'm referring to. :)

[errant-variable.livejournal.com]

1) Because myself, going to the Bay area and not having had a girlfriend in four years... you're figuring I must be homosexual and I supplied the (awesome and serendipitous) vodka, so it must be named in my honor. Also, I'm straight I swear.
2) Sure there could be more than one reason, but Midori is an African image so I have no idea why the fuck you put it in a drink referring to San Francisco.
3) Frat boys think them up so they can blurt out something shameless at a bar and then show up the bartender by telling them how to make it. Or bored girls who think like fratboys - same difference.
4) I hope not, because if I wind up being the only straight man in San Francisco it'd imply that there's either a lot of lonely straight women and I'll wind up dead from exhaustion, or that San Francisco is populated entirely by homosexuals in which case I will probably be anally raped by a hobo then have my throat slit by some butch lesbian for hitting on her partner in an attempt to regain my masculine self image.

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Well, you at least win for most creative answers. ;)

[tygenco-x.livejournal.com]

"I think I've invented the banana daquiri two centuries early..."
I've limited my drinking for the time being to draft Woodchuck and Ace Pear Cider--it's tasty and it makes me feel fuzzy but not so drunk that I can't speak properly or think clearly. And since I don't drive at all, it's all the better.
Here's to making new drinks and having a good laugh!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I'll give you all a hint on #1: it has to do with the ingredients, and another slang term for a gay person. Also, the answer to #2 is "Yes".

Critical Thinking Questions

[faith-rose08.livejournal.com]

Here is another question to ponder: What problem can be solved by creating fabulous alcoholic drinks with intriguing names? Love, Mum