The Sloppy Boys - 107. Lemon Drop Martini

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

The guys get back on track with a nice sour sipper.LEMON DROP MARTINI RECIPE1oz/30ml Vodka Citron.66oz/20ml Triple Sec.5oz/15ml Lemon JuicePour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with sugar rim around the glass.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton along with Mike Hanford. Check one, check one. And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we are your hosts, the Sloppy Boys. Nice. That was a real check I was doing.

Yeah, an effective check. An effective check. Check one and check one. You sound good. We are ready for fun. Thanks. And no mic hum like last time. You know, I...

Yes, I went on and I recorded just a few moments right before this and i was like i didn't hear any hum so uh the hum comes and goes with this uh piece of shit microphone i got off amazon for the cheapest number microphone checking uh i i did a little uh theater in high school and at one time in high school theater the uh like the sound crew in our uh you know in like a tech rehearsal for a show in the auditorium they had like this professional sound guy come to get our you know the the kids set up with the sound stuff yeah and when he was testing the sound he went he went check five five five five check five and he he must have been like checking microphone number five when i walked the room through the room whatever i only heard check

five five so for the longest time i thought it was i'd never really heard a professional microphone check before so i think maybe every single time we the sloppy boys have ever done sound check on the show i always go check five check yeah the origin of something i've heard a hundred times i don't think i've ever noticed that it's a reference to uh that you guys wouldn't get and it's a joke just for me but it's also not a joke because of my brain couldn't i couldn't say check one two if i tried hey who was that there we we saw a mic a guy oh so whatever a sound guy at one of the venues being like yep we saw a mic guy or so whatever a sound guy at one of the venues being like yep yes

yeah yeah what was that I forget where it was but it was yeah he was just checking I guess popping the peas maybe oh yes yep yep squeaking the s's also he would be a very good improviser yes and yep yes and

yep I wonder if the check one because anyone grabs a microphone they say check one check two it's just going the microphones check one and two microphones is that what that comes from i mean not if you're saying into the i my guess is when you're talking microphone one

you say check one check one and you get a thumbs up from the booth and then you go over to the microphone to say check two check two damn i i i had no idea. Who knew where that came from? Who knew on Hulu? Can you believe that Huluween is over?

I know it sucks. Yes, but we're looking forward to happy Honda days. That's true. Merry Hulu holidays. Merry Hulu days. That's what they should say. Happy Hulu Days.

Happy Honda Days. Okay. It must be tough working for a business, and it's like, oh, holidays are coming up. How are we going to work our tagline into some fucking holiday? Well, the holidays are tough, because then you've got to do drinks like Death in the Afternoon and Blood and Sand.

Yeah, yeah. You've got to veer from your normal spring and summer routine what's our do we have like a tagline for this show a slogan um deep dive drinks that you love yeah but like something you if we had a poster for the beloved tagline i say every day i take an issue with this and i never listen to it and i never think about but i the the podcast that takes a deep dive into the drinks that you love they don't love these drinks half the drinks they never heard of them then they drink them and they don't love them you think people like the blood and sand the death in the afternoon these are bad drinks and the dive ain't that deep. It's shallow half the time. Exactly.

It's a 15-minute Google at best. 15 minutes. It's funny because on podcasts, people really do deep dives. There are truly deep dives out there in the world of podcasts. And into the cocktails that you love. The cocktail podcast hosted by three uh guys you want to hang out with you want to have three wonderful guys with hearts of gold that's what we should change it to like the like maybe not a deep dive but a cannonball you know yeah a belly flop into the

beverages you crave yeah that's good tim that's great but if you if we set like a deep dive into drinks you may or may not like you gotta say that just drinks you love because it's guys i'm saying that we get away from drinks anyway it's the sloppy boys it's a vibe that's the timeline it's a groove it's a movement yeah oh so that would be our that would be our poster, I guess. If it was the poster, like the Sloppy Boys podcast, it's a groovement. That would be it. And then people would be like, you listen to that show? That's the thing you need to know. What type of podcast is that?

And you're like, oh, it's one of those groovement ones. It's one of those groovement ones. How many people are doing that? Like all of them. He's super enthused. The guy, oh, it's one of those groovement ones. Is it any good? No.

No. What makes it not so good? Hanford's got a hum. Tim checks microphone five only. Alright. Can we get into some booze news? Some bit it bit bit bit. Bit bit bit bit bit booze news.

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Oh, you got a toy story drink movie Pixar does. Oh, you've got a Toy Story drink. Pixar does? Yeah, you've got a Toy Story drink. Nice. Oh, very good. Very good. Brandy Newman was sent to us by Trey Diamond. And if you have a Booze News theme email it to the Sloppy Boys podcast

at gmail.com That was great. It seemed like we were going to get into a second verse maybe but we didn't need it. What was his name? Andy Diamond? Trey Diamond keeps it tight. He makes it pop. He gets in and gets out. He listened. Hey, he understood

the assignment. Thank you. And for doing so, he is now in my dream blunt rotation. And if you want to be in our dream blunt rotation, email thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. No, we should have a different email for dream blunt rotation applicants. You send a picture of yourself, we just superimpose them all together. All right, I got some top of the, what is it, above the fold booze news. Damn.

Scandal rocks the pod? Yeah. Well, sort of. But this is a good scandal. Folks, the all new Sloppy Boys web store is live at thesloppyboys.com. We got a beautiful collection of band t-shirts and podcast t-shirts all under one roof. All your old favorites like the Western Trucking Mud Flap Design by Kyle Hilton. a beautiful collection of band t-shirts and podcast t-shirts all under one roof all your old favorites like the western trucking mud flap design by kyle hilton plus some new stuff like

the here for the beer shirt previously only available at the live shows that's a kyle hilton as well as hell yeah it is and that was in the in the works for a long time like he did a great job on that he he got exactly what we were uh suggesting and he's like oh i was good like didn't we bring this idea to him he was like oh i've been kind of like working on this type of thing this type of art anyway we wanted like i forget who the artist is but he did like animal house or like meatballs that sort of 70s 80s detroit rock city yeah like the illustration movie poster yeah you can't you can can't fake that with Photoshop filters. You need an artist who's going to draw your likeness.

You got to draw the legs right angle, bending the knee with a big feet running. And a big tube sock flapping around. Yeah, yeah. Big tube sock that's loose. I like that tactic, though, that we reach out to them to do some art for us. If someone reaches out to you for a job and you say, yeah, I was going to do that anyway,

I'm going to start doing that with TV writing jobs. I was going to write this episode of that show anyway, but if you want me to do it. Go pay me. I was just going to mail it in. So that's good. Right now it's just shirts. Right now it's just shirts right now it's just shirts but we got other fun stuff coming cassettes flasks sunglasses coasters on the way yeah

it's all happening at the sloppyboys.com don't go to t public anymore it's a barren wasteland did we take our t public down or is it yeah gone. Good. It is a Mad Max-esque scene over there. Are new shirts going to smell like vinegar the way the TeePublic shirts do? Yeah, like a can of tennis balls or whatever. Yeah, it really smells to me like a salad dressing. Hey, that's not bad. I would buy some of those shirts and mix my salads in them Huh?

Save on dressing That's right Save on bowls The wear and tear on the bowls The wait I make a salad Wait do we have any actual booze news? We certainly do.

I'm making this salad the other night. Oh, my God. I was trying to get away from the salad. This is a stainless steel bowl. The thing's shredded at the bottom. It cost me so much to repair this thing. This sucks. Do you think that people are going to think this is a groovement?

No, that's not groovement talk. It's a borement. I'll give you groovement talk. Next story on Booze News. This is great because we've made it through the scary Halloween season. We're getting towards some holidays. Are we not? We are.

Third day time. Fat man down the chimney day. That's right. This one came to us from my sister have you heard about eggo nog eggo as in eggo waffles eggo nog sipping cream the waffle company and sugarlands distilling Company are spreading holiday cheers this season. Holiday cheers. With Egonog Appalachian Sipping Cream. Ego-inspired eggnog liqueur that pairs perfectly with ego-thick and fluffy waffles

to help grown-ups Lego during the most chaotic time of the year, the holidays. Wait, wait. Hold on. Let me pause you. Sipping cream? So. Sipping cream? It's sip in with an apostrophe.

Here's what I find. That doesn't help me. Oh, it is okay. Okay. Okay. So this is like waffly flavored eggnog. Okay. But what I have found is there was a previously existing drink um there's this

company that's been around for like 10 years in tennessee that makes a drink called appalachian sipping sipping cream okay it's in a mason jar it looks like that moonshine stuff that you buy but it's a sweet sippy i don't know that appalachian sipping cream existed before i don't know if it's a thing you drink on the trail but it's a sweet creamy sipper i found an eater article saying that if you want to irish up your coffee that appalachian sipping cream is a good thing to add okay it's funny when you define a phrase with just jumbling the same words around. I'm like, oh, okay. Yes. It's a cream you sip.

Now, are we to understand this taste? Is it maple syrupy? Breakfast-y? You know, they're saying that it pairs with waffles. So it says it's churned cream rum cinnamon nutmeg so no this is really eggnog this feels like it's just eggnog but there was something clever about the name eggo nog and so kellogg's had to get their little mitts all over it but um it's 80 proof 40 out if it does in fact taste like eggo like uh waffle batter I'm in

he loves batter I'll be honest with you, you never live with this guy this guy makes batter and just drinks it down that was always when I was a kid my mom would make brownies or something she'd let me lick the spatula it was great when I get my own life going

I'm going to make this so I was just going to drink this stuff and I never have um chalk uh cookie dough as a thing which we know um cookie dough ice cream was invented

by Ben and Jerry's and it was an anonymous tip really uh somebody sent in like oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was them who came. Oh, wow. I wish there were more doughy. I've had brownie dough.

Oh, blondie dough. Ice cream is good. Oh, that's good. But what about waffle batter plops in the ice cream? I'm surprised they haven't done that yet. They probably call it something else. But yeah, that would be. Not plops. Plops. They haven't done that yet. They probably call it something else, but yeah. Plops?

I don't know. For me, it conjures up sort of something that would be in and around a toilet. Well, keep it in. Kind of a wet, sticky substance that would be squeezed out of a tight hole. Yeah. Wet, sticky.

Nasty. Another thing with um ample hills we used to have ample hills here in uh lovely los filas and now it's a sample hills because i never bought anything i just said oh let me try another one mike mike stop and then uh but now it's a it's a empty husk of a craftsman right across from the rustic. Do you know what used to be there before Ample Hills? No. A daycare? Heidi Flace, the Hollywood madam.

Oh. Her dad was a pediatrician, and that was his practice. Oh. Oh, that's what I, yeah. I heard that from Eva Anderson herself. She knows that stuff. Yeah. But here's the thing I don't i don't like about uh

certain flavors ooey gooey butter cake delicious butter at ample hills love it hate to say it i think that's jenny's isn't it uh they both have it um oh yes and that's like a proper noun right like that's from a that's a regional thing it's a it's a st louis thing uh in st louis they call it ooey gooey butter cake it's fucking delicious but i agree with you jeff and i like that jenny's just calls their ice cream gooey butter cake and when i order it i just say butter cake of course i'm i'm 39 am i gonna say ample hills i was like can i have the um butter cake please and they're like oh you want the ooey gooey butter cake, please? And they're like, oh, you want the ooey gooey butter cake? Ooey gooey! Can I have the cutesy tootsie

chocolate chippy whoopoo? Can you wipe my bum bum? I'll have baby size, please. Sometimes they'll say, give me the dry, hard cake, bitch! Give me vanilla! I can't get me out of here. I thought that was Freddy Krueger for a minute

there, Tim. Bitch. Yes, the birthday cake ice cream, though, which is basically ooey gooey is that what you're... Yeah. That's good. I like the rise of the birthday cake flavor. Chill out on the sprinkles, though, man. No. Oh, okay.

Go ahead. I mean, I like funfetti stuff. That's what I'm saying. The funfetti flavor I think is a good flavor. It's weird where we're at with birthday cake flavor though because you're like hey i love it because i love like a vanilla i love a buttery cake with vanilla frosting and but now you're like by i recently like bought a birthday cake and it was birthday cake flavor and i'm like are you injecting fake birthday cake flavor into a butter cake and jenny's puts too many sprinkles in their birthday batter flavor you know what do do you guys do you know my favorite style of cake if someone can i guess

sure white cake chocolate icing oh very close golden cake chocolate icing yeah the yellow cake oh that's yellow yellow when i said white i was picturing yeah yeah the betty crocker you know made from a box chocolate icing with the little tiny uh balls ball uh sprinkles oh rainbow sprinkles ball those sprinkles are good and you know what i love is you get a cake like that yeah have your fun. You eat some of it. But then the next day it's in your fridge. Yeah.

And it's gotten a little bit hard. And it's cold. And you're going in there with your fingers. Yeah. And yeah, you got a glass of milk. A huge glass of milk next to you. Yeah, that thing is. You've never seen a glass like this.

Where did you get that glass? We got glasses this big. Jesus. Mike, you still drinking glasses of milk regularly? Yes. Yes, yes. I feel like I heard a thing that that was like, we always assumed that for centuries everyone drank milk, but I think it was really like the Milk Does a Body Good campaign that

really pushed drinking a whole glass of milk as a thing. And I don't think that people previously really drank whole glasses of milk. You see me at the beach with my shirt off, you're damn right it does a body good. Your bones are gigantic. Yeah. One bone, one specific bone. Watch yourself, buddy boy. I ain't going to nude beaches.

I'm not going to French nude beaches, all right? I'm a little more, I'm a little shy for that type of thing. You're a tough guy bragging about your good body, but you're just shy. All right, you guys want to get into the drink of the day? Sure, let's wrap up Booze News. Oh, we got to wrap it up, don't we? All right, one second. Let me do a little.

Plop, plop. Just one second. Hold on. Oh. plop plop just just one second hold on oh god all right just do that in the privacy of your could you leave the room when you wrap up booze news yucko okay the drink of the day folks we are back on the International Bartenders Association cocktail list with a little drink called the Lemon Drop. And what the IPA calls the Lemon Drop Martini. You've had. Not had, only heard. Not had, only heard.

Lyric. Oh, yeah, right. Two for one Lemon Drop. Two for one Lemon Drop. Three for one. In a Sloppy Boys song. Yeah. College night. Oh, yeah, right. Two for one, lemon drop. Two for one, lemon drop. Three for one. In a Sloppy Boys song. Yeah. College night.

Ooh, hey. Sounds like a good excuse to pad out the end of the episode with one more classic song. That's a long song, dude. What do you mean pad out? I say thrill him in the home stretch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Two for one, lemon drop. No, that's good.

Well, so wait, had you only heard of Lemon Drop from that lyric? No, I've heard of it before, but I never really knew what it was at all. So as a shot. As a shot. Yeah. I always heard of it kind of as a, or thought of it as like one of these, like 80s bad era of cocktails type of shots. Like a Sex on the Beach or a Fuzzy Naively.

I mean, yeah, you're right in in both regards it's it's it's both but i i first i've i've heard i've heard and i've had as a shot and i think our generation along with the kamikaze shot or the the like blow job shot there were these kind of stunty college shots and the lemon drop is one of them and i've had it but i didn't know exactly what was in it but the iba list has this lemon drop martini and i look into it and back to the history of the beginning of the lemon drop and guess what yeah wow it's a fern bar drink there we go yeah so to new listeners you wouldn't know this but we've learned on this show that in the 1970s, there was this trend of kind of yuppie bars

in New York and San Francisco called fern bars. And they're kind of like these fun eclectic places decorated with ferns and stained glass Tiffany lamps and brass rails. That's a big one, the brass rail. When you said that, that's when i was like oh i know the type yeah yeah um the first one it started with the original tgi fridays right on the upper east side of manhattan and the significance was this was like known as the

first singles bar it opened in like the the late 60s and it was like before that you know like women like bars were like for like men or couples and they were unwelcoming towards like single young women yeah and kind of scary and kind of and uh closed off to them um and so the the original tgi fridays was like ladies you can go there like a group of ladies or just a lady you go there and you can meet men and that or that's what the movie cocktail he's tending bar at it's supposed to be that and a lot of the drinks are this kind of kooky style but um that's the first one and then in the 70s we spread across the country keep going tim i'll say can you guys hear this outside i heard something like someone was my neighbor neighbor Ghost Rider just came home. God damn.

It's not bad. I just heard one little... Mike, what were you going to say? I was going to say, so when that movie came out in the 80s, Cocktail, and these fern bars were kind of newish, is that what you're saying? That they were like happening?

No, I think that that one is a time-honored one, but I think the fern bar Peak is the mid-'70s, and Cocktail is late-'80s. Okay, never mind. Never mind. Never mind that. No, never mind that. What am I thinking of?

Never mind that. Does that remind you of something? Never mind that. Monty Python sounds like. Yeah, yeah, it does sound like that. Nope, that is Silly Walk. Anyway. Yes. Your parrot ce walk. Anyway. Yes.

Your parrot ceases to live. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, no. I was thinking of Doc Brown in Back to the Future. Oh, yeah. When he doesn't want to talk about the plutonium. I think. Never mind that.

Never mind that. Something never mind that now. Okay. Back on track here. It's a groove, folks. The Sloppy Boys got the podcast coming at you so in the 70s there's all these fern bars that have the lamps and the ferns and the rails and the coolest one we've looked at pictures of this place before in san francisco henry africa's is like a very cool looking fern bar and kind of like richie uh upwardly mobile working professionals would go dating there

um and the drinks they were serving were sweet harvey wall bangers wine spritzers and a certain cocktail that they invented uh owner norman j hobday invented the lemon drop and he named it for, you know, the old candy lemon drops? Yeah. Named it after that. Then the lemon drop, yes, you're right about the dark ages, like bartending historian types call the

80s and 90s like the dark ages because it was like no one was drinking old fashions or martinis. They were just having all these sweet, juicy drinks. And the, you know, alongside the sex on the beach and all that shit the lemon drop was in the mix and then in the 90s the lemon drop martini was kind of made it onto menus with the appletini and the cosmo is sort of the sex in the city lady drinks then as it crapped out for our generation we know it as the shot kind of like a party shot but also kind of more geared toward girls and being like a sorority shot that's very sweet um and then fern bars went the way of the dodo they turned into family restaurants and and

the tgi fridays of today and um i feel like with this lemon drop martini, it's kind of having a little resurgence right now because we've talked about how there's an ironic winky version of a martini menu that's coming back right now that's got appletinis and Midori drinks and stuff on it. The lemon drop is on those menus that's popping up ironically in new york this very year we're doing 80s kitsch even in the drinks exactly we're winking but i bet also in but new york bars they're probably doing like a more like a here's your lemon drop but i've made it with some fancy ingredients right well oh so wait tim one second the lemon drop martini is that like when we did the alabama slammer remember in the directions it was like you can put it on the rocks or have it as a shot is it is that basically what the lemon drop is or is the martini different from the lemon drop shot um that is a great question i feel i would guess that the lemon drop shot is a little bit

stronger or sweeter i was gonna i was oh yeah maybe this is something that we do a little google google on oh google and maybe we even try it as a shot after but i don't think i've never heard people call this a lemon drop martini i feel like you've got a lemon drop or a lemon drop shot yeah i think we you know martini is. Yeah. I think we, you know, martini is a very loose definition. It's really, you know, on these stupid martini menus,

it's anything with a martini glass tends to be like, even though martinis are originally gin based. When you look at a martini menu, it's usually like 10 vodka drinks in a martini glasses of different colors and sweetnesses. What, what? Yeah. So what would make this a martini? Just what colors and sweetnesses what what yeah so what would make this martini just what you pour it into yeah hmm seems wrong yeah i'm seeing stuff uh

i'm seeing stuff online nothing definitive yet it seems like the proportions are different okay well let me read you the iba recipe and you tell me if it varies from the shot great 30 milliliters of vodka citrone like like lemon flavored vodka like absolute citrone um i think this is dumb i hate when recipes do this where it's like it has lemon juice and then also lemon flavored vodka but yeah i just have vodka that's fine that's what i feel like we've had other drinks where it's like orange juice and curacao and you're like it's a it's already what are you doing um fuck them 20 milliliters of triple sec uh you know the the famed orange liqueur i'm using quantro which is fancy triple sec same i'm using dr decaper there go. 15 milliliters fresh lemon juice.

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake well with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with sugar rim around the glass. Nice. Now, you got to do that first. You got to wet the top of your glass and turn it upside down onto a plate of sugar. Sounds like a pain in the ass.

I'm going to do it because I think I didn't... You don't get an opportunity to do this very often. Would you use powdered sugar? That seems even messier. No, I think you want the coarse stuff. Granular. Granular. Granular.

So, Jeff, the ratio here was one one ounce vodka two-thirds of an ounce triple sec half an ounce lemon juice are the shots pretty much the same thing or are they stronger i i'm looking at the shot recipe on absolute's website which is seems pretty good um they have uh different parts they say like two-thirds part citrone, half part lemon juice, quarter part simple syrup. I think that's the main thing is that there's simple syrup in the shot and no sign of Cointreau. Well, that would be, the simple

syrup would be in the replace, replacing the sugar around the rim, I guess, right? Ooh, I guess so. Either way, I feel like this martini version, you could just have this as a shot because it'll be pretty strong. Yeah. It's vodka and triple sec or boozy, and then it's just half an ounce of lemon juice. So it's a shot.

Nice. Well, I do have citron, and I'm excited to crack it open. Nice. Me too. Hee, hee, hee. Hee, hee, hee. You want to get into it? Yes.

Folks, we'll be right back with Lemon Drop Martinis in hand after this. And we're back with Lemon Drop Martinis. Let's see them. Ooh, nice rim hey, hey. Ooh, nice rims, everyone. Yeah, very nice rims. Nice rim job. Mine got, like, melty.

It looks like... Yours looks good. It looks like TGI Fridays. Yeah. This is like when we get our cars all together and we all go, ooh, nice rims, nice rims. No, you have nice rims. Hey, did you guys do a little lemon juice around the room to get that sugar to stick? Yes, that's what you did. I did water, and that's, I go, ooh, nice rims, nice rims. No, you have nice rims. Hey, did you guys do a little lemon juice around the rim to get that sugar to stick? Yes, that's what you do.

I did water, and that's, I think, why it's like melting the sugar. Ooh, you get a little syrup. I just kind of ran. Yeah, yes, exactly. That's all right. I did that. I used some coarse sugar, and then I put it in the freezer while I did my shaking and stuff and that kind of helped the sugar hang on there.

Nice. You guys are real bartenders. I know. I know. Here we go. Sip time. Join me, won't you? Ooh, tart and tangy. That's nice.

Ooh, that's nice. That's nice Ooh, that's nice That's lemonade, baby That's a welcome change from the last two weeks But it's nice because it's not too sweet And then I feel like I'm getting It's delicious, but it's tart And then I got a little crunchy sugar at the end To sort of say there's the sweetness I wanted

That's, uh I got a little crunchy sugar at the end to sort of say there's the sweetness I wanted. That's, uh... I mean, you can't go wrong with lemon juice. I mean, hey, you know I'm a lime freak, but still. Sure. Any drink that's just got a bunch of lemon juice in it, I'm kind of into it. Any drink? What about lemon juice and turd, huh? Well, if it's turd floating, no, I don't want the lemon juice.

What about plops of lemons? Dirt it with a turd? I'm just I don't want the lemon juice. What about plops of lemon? Stir it with a turd. I'm just dragging my fucking tongue around the rim and eating this sugar. It's pretty good. Ooh, I forgot to tell you guys about this. I went up to, me and a group of friends went up to Sleepy Hollow. Ah, yes. Remember I talked about that.

I never reported on it. Right. We went up there. It was great. We did like a haunted hayride. There was a big like street fair going on. Drinking some $5 brewskis. Having food.

We got... There was a beer truck that had all the pumpkin ales and hazy IPA pumpkin styles and stuff like that. They did a rim on the Solo cups that they were serving in that I've never had before. They did,

they dunked it, or they dipped it in, um, butternut squash. Syrup? No, syrup, and then dipped that into,

uh, cinnamon sugar. Oh, man. Like powdered cinnamon. And it had, uh, oh,

it was nice. I've never seen that before, but. Oh, man. I hope to see it again. I like having a, I like having like a tahini rim one of those one of those spicy uh limey type of ribs especially when it's not just even a

michelada but you're having like a margarita and then you have a little pop of flavor on the rim that's good it's tough with this. Yeah, I'm just like going for the sugary spots. I'm marveling at how this is not too sweet. It's nice. Yeah, I may have done a little too much limone, but... Too much limone, I don't like. Too much timone.

That was your review of Lion King, wasn't it? Too much limon I don't like. Too much timon. Too much timon. That was your review of Lion King, wasn't it? Too much timon. I'm a pumbaa freak. This movie is TMT. Too much timon. Next. Now, this is another one of those drinks where I'm shaking it up, and I feel like, not a lot of liquid in here, huh?

It's going to look pretty silly in my big martini glass. Did you make a double, or you did it to specs? I did it to specs. I have a small martini glass, and it didn't even fill it up. Yeah. Even, I've got to say, even, like, I just drank about half of this. Even that doesn't look so silly. I don't know.

Yeah, you're right, Mike. That doesn't look so silly. That don't look so silly I don't know you're right Mike that doesn't look so silly that don't look so silly to me my hand is sticky as hell I'm getting all this sugar all over me help help I'm stuck I'm fucking stuck I finished all my sugar now I'm just left with a fun boozy cocktail

speaking of sugar I finished all my sugar. Now I'm just left with a fun boozy cocktail. Speaking of sugar, we really talked sugar on the Patreon this week, didn't we? Oh, we sure did. The best candy bar. We determined it. Candy bar. Yeah, candy bar. And this week we should do Sugar, We're Going Down by fallout boy hey they're talking about that song

for an hour well 40 minutes yeah there's gonna be some chit chat up top but yeah hey if you if you want to figure out the best candy bar that's behind the paywall man you gotta spend that five dollars a month sorry you gotta join up. Sorry, not sorry. Borrowing that from the new Reese's campaign. New. That campaign's two years old now. It is funny, though, on the Patreon when we're like, okay, we're ready to rock.

Ready for Best Candy Bar. And then Taylor Swift comes out with an album the day before. We're like, oh, we probably should have had something to say about that. But, hey, you know, Best Candy Bar. We like candy bars. Did you listen to the album, though? She's had something to say about that. But hey, you know, best candy bar. We like candy bars. Did you listen to the album, though? She's like, nut-rageous. Nut-rageous. I haven't listened to it yet.

Are there hits to be had? I'm a Taylor fan, and I like the album. Here's what I'll tell you. Are there hits to be had? Yeah, Tim, answer the question. I mean, yes the question I mean Yes Am I going to be cutting it up on the dance floor Of these songs in the near future or not?

You're going to be cutting it up You're a bit of a cut up yourself You're going to be chopping it up With your music friends talking about it You're going to be Livening up your mood by listening to it That's good I'll tell you this

I just wanted I didn't want any more folk music livening up your mood by listening to it that's good i'll tell you this it's uh i just wanted i didn't want any more folk music thank you and and the last two albums were from her in general from her i guess in general i like the poppy taylor 89 is 1989 is like yeah that's my taylor right there me too that's my taylor and then what's weird about the cottage gore albums is that they're sort of like fake folk where she's still just right. They're like composed like the pop songs, but then they just have boring production like that's really muted. So when I hit play on Midnight's and I just like heard some pop sounds like, like, yeah, zip. Are you sure that wasn't 101 sound effects? I was dancing to it. I'm more of a 100 gecs guy.

Yep. I top out at around 99 gecs. You couldn't quite crack 100. Yeah, it's too bad. Geck me, baby. Geck me, boy. I'll tell you what I like about this drink. Imagine you're at a fern bar.

I'll tell you what I like about this drink. Imagine you're at a fern bar. Everybody's having all these really sweet spritzers and Harvey Wallbangers and stuff. Yes, this is tart with all the lemon juice, but it's not cloyingly sweet or too juicy or any of this stuff. No, it's because of real lemon juice. And you're not adding syrup. That's the key. The big problem I have with this drink is it's already gone i love it yeah i love this well why don't you what do you think we take

a little break hold on i got something to say sure oh you're gonna watch this is gonna be divisive i love lemon we all love lemon, right? I love lamp. Hey, don't blame me, man. Blame this movie. I prefer lemon in savory dishes. I would rather squeeze lemon on a lamb chop or into a salad. Or on a Brussels sprout. Or on Sir Brussels sprout.

Rather than. And I love lemon. You mean a lemon square come on okay now we can go to commercial okay oh shit wait but so what was your point that you love lemon so you but you don't like it in this point my point was i love lamp oh well that's what i was saying folks i was I was trying to say that, but you cut me off. We'll be right back. That's what you were going to say. You couldn't get that in. I love land.

And we're back. Round two of Lemon Drop Martinis. Nice. Did anybody do a shot? I'm just going to... I just still have my last round, and I'm just going to take it as a shot. Nice. Tim, I'll join you in that.

You made a shot? No, I'm just going to finish the rest of mine. And Michael, what'd you do? I did something. I changed this from a lemon drop to a lime drop whoa let's see how it goes hey bombs away tip tip oh no no you're sipping hmm oh okay you know he doesn't like oh you know i think the big problem here is i'll keep sipping it.

Maybe it'll change my mind. But I only had lime in like that, you know, when you buy it, go to the produce department. It's like a plastic lime. Yeah, it's like fake lime juice. And it's kind of old, so maybe that might be in the best lime. Mike, celebrity bartender Jack Schramm says, squeeze your own lime juice and use it within 24 hours. Sure, but this is off the cuff here. Yep.

All right. Me and Jeff are doing our shots. One, two, bombs away. Ooh, baby. That's good. Me, me, me, me, honk honk chew let me tell you this i've been doing you know when you order a shot from a bartender you can say chilled yeah they'll put in a cocktail shaker and shake it with ice um i like doing that especially it's it's a pleasant surprise let's you tell people

you're getting tequila shots and everyone's like, oh, no, these will be burn me. And if you get them chilled, they melt a little and they melt up. Tim did it last night. Casamigos. Five of them. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And you got them chilled? Yeah.

Now, I'm impressed that you still went with Casamigos. I go cheap drinks when I'm getting them chilled. Sure. The bartender was pretty. Ah. So she said, oh, you're rich. Here's my number. She said, Casamigos. And I said, yes, ma she said, oh, you're rich? Here's my number. She said, Casamigos? And I said, yes, ma'am.

Oh, you're rich? Yeah. Okay, what bar? Oh, Nickel Mill? Nickel Mine? Nickel Mine? Where's that? Yes, the Nickel Mine.

Down near like Santa Monica. It's on Santa boulevard and basically like west hollywood um this was before we went and saw wit and clay's movie the civil dead oh that's a good movie i watched it online oh yeah right yeah i went with uh with uh some friends including uh mook and mitch very cool and uh resident zapper Steph and Kara. And then Neil and Fran were there, too. Oh, nice. Well, Scandal rocks the pod. Wit told me he was going to invite me to that, and then he forgot to invite me to it.

Oh, nice. This is going to be a big problem for me in my life. Tim, your buddy Jeff invited you, and you didn't respond to the text, Jay. Yeah, I want the invite from the guy who's in the movie not some random podcast some sort of groovement that's going on um where was the where was the movie the new art theater okay no but so what made you think to do a chill is that just the thing you do as well jay again i went up to the bar and i said hey uh five tequila shots please with limes and uh it was super loud and she said casamigos and i said yeah and she said chilled and i said, hey, five tequila shots, please, with limes. And it was super loud. And she said, Casamigos?

And I said, yeah. And she said, chilled? And I said, yeah. Okay. Damn right. And then those shot glasses came out of the freezer and she shook them up on ice. So you would have said yes to anything this lady said. Interesting. I'm a pushover.

I've been doing my shots like that at home. Sometimes I'll say, ooh, Timmy, that's great. That's a great move. And you a pushover. I've been doing my shots like that at home. Sometimes I'll say, Ooh, Timmy, that's great. That's a great move. And you get some cheaper liquor. I've been having a little problem with my shaker recently. I'll shake it up, and I shake it a lot so I can get the ice chunks, usually any time I shake a drink.

And I tip it upside down, and it's like one thin little stream comes out. Yeah, it's going through the slush. It's got a power through the slush. It's going through the slush. It's got a power through the slush. It goes through the slush. Mike, use a Hawthorne strainer, my man. I know, I don't have a Hawthorne. Let me give you one other tip. I squeeze lime into the shaker when I do my shaking shots so it even has the lime in there.

You don't have to bite the lime after. Infused. Sort of infused. The lime in this like canceled out. This tastes like nothing. It's weird. The lime in this canceled out. This tastes like nothing. It's weird. The lime canceled out all other flavor. Lime cancellation.

Interesting. I'm ready to give my full review. I will not do lime drop again, but lemon drop, order again. Stone Cold Classic? And again. I don't think so. It gives some pause. Just the notion it's tough to name

a Stone Cold Classic for me that is the first time I'm having it okay fair you know what I mean

it's tough to because like when you have an old-fashioned that's a Stone Cold Classic right and it's like yeah we've had a million of those they've been around forever

and it lived up to its name Martini Stone Cold Classic all right I'm gonna say yeah it's in order again for sure I'm so happy Been around forever, and it lived up to its name. Martini, Stone Cold Classic. All right. I'm going to say, yeah, it's an order again for sure. I'm so happy that we are back on solid ground on the IBA list. Yeah.

I fear for what comes next. When the IBA list is conquered and we're in new uncharted territory without a map, oh, the mind reels. There'll be plenty of we'll find something i also like that we had a good drink last couple weeks on this show yeah but death in the afternoon was the first drink i hated and before that blood and sand i liked it but it's kind of famously disliked here we are with a nice three ingredient drink that the slob heads are gonna like this is gonna be a readings bonanza hey well i want to say about the blood and sand. We should follow up on this because I think about it all the time.

Acid-adjusted orange juice. We got to find it or make it somehow and discuss. Agreed. Also, separately, I went to the Dresden. I had a blood and sand. It was nothing like the IBA recipe. It was rummy and fruit punchy or something? It was a frozen drink.

It was like a slushy, a pink slushy, and it wasn't too sweet. It wasn't flabby. It was tart and grenadine-y. Where was this drink on the IBA? What category? New Era. Because it was the 80s, sure. And Tim, you said you were Order Again? Order Again, yes. Love it was the 80s. Sure. And you, Tim,

you said you were Order Again? Order Again, yes. Love it. Wrap it up. And it's the best of the fern bar drinks in that category

of the sweet drinks. Yeah. Wrap up the episode. We got nothing else to do. There's nothing, absolutely no other thing to do for this episode. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, there's nothing to do. There's pretty much absolutely no other thing to do for this episode. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, there's nothing to do. There's pretty much nothing to do other than the Lemon Drop Quiz! Oh, no! Ah! Okay. Basically, this is a quiz

where you two are going to go head-to-head to see who has the higher intellect. Oh, in this quiz, we go head-to-head. Good, good. Well, the hook of this quiz is that it, well, let's say some of the questions involve a certain fruit that was used in the drink. A wine. Interesting. Round two.

Mike, you've got to forget about round two, bud. I can't. Okay, you ready for this? Blurt out the answers As they come Question one Don't fall for it This citrus soiree Website is both geriatric And pornographic

Lemon party There you go Jefferson on the board And how would you know that, Jeff? I'm a culture vulture. It's his fucking homepage. I think you're a portal vulture. It's his fucking lock screen. He's a fucking webmaster.

Okay. Jeff up with a huge lead on Hanford. Hanford trails way behind. Nil to one. Okay. Question number two. Liz Lemon may have been played by Tina Fey. Yes, this is true.

But this guest of the Sloppy Boys podcast once shit his pants on the set of that very same show. Gabrus. Yes, Michael. podcast once shit his pants on the set of that very same show yes michael john gabrus was a small role on 30 rock and he shit his pants why did all the guys around the tape on the writer's table right yeah yeah oh my god and he was like talking to tina fey and he realized he had shit his pants and it stunk oh man is this. Is this something he has gone public with or are we outing him on this? I feel like I've heard it on a pod.

He seems like he would be fine with people knowing that. It's funny, Jim, when you do those questions and you say something like, this much is true. I'm expecting you to rhyme the next line, but it wasn't the case. No, no, no. It's just my signature style.

Okay, one, one. this is neck and neck yeah this is necky neck dramatic stuff necky neck question three this car company had a famous ad that called out its own car as a lemon as a lemon. Mazda. The ad was featured in the show Mad Men. Volkswagen. Yes. Honda. Oh, yeah, great.

Volkswagen. I meant Volkswagen. You guys remember that ad? No. Yes, of course, Tim. I got the question right, didn't I? Yes, it was an ad

that said it had a picture of Volkswagen bug beetle and then it said lemon and then underneath it was like this one's a lemon but our our technicians make sure that the one you buy will be great or whatever but it was clever marketing the type of stuff that we need to do on this show oh don draper style he's draper at head of office. Draper, pretty handsome guy if you ask me. Okay, here we go. Question four. When life gave her a certain sour fruit, a.k.a. a seductress with good hair

preying upon her husband, Ms. Knowles-Carter made this album. Lemonade. Lemonade. Jeff got it. No, he didn't. We said it the same time, and I said it again. Mike, you knew it as well, but Jeff has the faster tongue.

Yeah, I don't know about that. I think it's because you two are zooming closer to each other. So the internet from Los Filos to Los Filos gets faster. It goes right down the block. I think so. Right down the block. Okay. Jeff, historically unhappy with his performance

in the quizzes jeff is pulling away with sure also let me just say this i feel like i get a lot of questions right but then you know somebody gets like a spiny shell or something and i lose the quiz in the last question that's kind of that's the thing of duddy here's the thing about uh the lemon drop quiz yeah no bullshit no no no little weirdies this is one equals one that's why i said it was just you guys were going head to head with intellect because just intellect okay but about lemon stuff okay right but about well a certain citrusy fruit yeah Yeah, we were not saying it. All right, next question. All right, then.

Let me tell you something. Can I ask you this next question? Who had a series of unfortunate events? Lemony Snicket. Damn, Lemony Snicket's got... No, see, this sounded like we said it the exact same time. No, we did not. I had a second ahead of you.

Mike, let me tell you this. On the Lemon Drop quiz, geography is factored in, so living close to the host is a good move. So that your internet zaps to them faster. Tim, can I get a point for that? You don't need a point because you're winning 4-1. But I don't trust it. I don't trust quizzes anymore. I could have a dynamite

lead and still lose. Well, luckily it's the lemon drop quiz where there's no fuss, no muss. Dress it up, dress it down. Dress like the titular lemon. No fuss, no muss. Dress it up, dress it down.

A night at home, a night at the town. At the town. Okay, here we go. What type of Debras live in the town of Lemoncurd? Busy. Yes, Mike got it. And there's three of them. Yeah, you didn't even need the hint.

There was three of them. Okay, now Mike is catching up. Jeff, how do you feel? Well, I actually got a text right at the moment you asked that question, so I need to beat up a certain... You should be blocked anyway. Come on. Damn.

My phone is in the other room. I'm not even thinking about it. Are you ready for the next question? I am prepared with my phone face down. with my phone face down. Our favorite round yellow fruit is featured alongside a popular

boob fruit in this classic palindrome. Melon? Lemon? Lemon and melon? Palindrome! Lemon melon? Lemon lemon? Oh, fuck. It'srome. Lemon melon. Lemon lemon?

Oh, fuck. It's like, hold on. Melon race car lemon? Yeah. Lemon, a Toyota melon. Is that it? Madam, I'm Adam. Huh?

Okay, no, no, no. Okay okay so it involves the two fruits you're saying yeah and it's a classic palindrome and you're allowed to google it mike you're losing i'd rather take no melon'd rather take time. No melon, no lemon. There you go. I've never read that in my life. I'd rather take time away from my screen. I don't need extra screen time on the day. I needed it.

I need this win. I need a W. You didn't want seven more seconds of screen time. Hey, you want to know another palindrome? It's a long one. Yeah. Go hang a salami. I'm a lasagna hog. That one rings true for me.

I would say that. That's like a thing I would accidentally say. You might actually accidentally say palindrome like that. Damn, that made me want to get an Italian sub after this. A big hard salami. Nice big place of ding-a-ma-goo. Okay. The final question yes who a certain pea-colored acidic fruits juice is rubbed on the declaration of independence in this dumb movie? National Treasure? Yes!

Michael Hanford is the loser of the Lemon Drop Quiz. Jeff, you won it and you win all the lemon pulp. Yeah, I love that pulp. Give it to me.

You won it fair and square. And you had to use the internet for one of the questions. Good for you. Alright. Thanks for listening. Are you happy you kept your screen time down? I am very happy to keep my screen time down. That's something

I'm trying to work on and I'm not going to just all of a sudden bend the rules. Okay. That's our show. Follow us on social media at The Sloppy Boys where we release these recipes ahead of time. Also check out our Patreon where you can unlock

The Sloppy Boys Blowout. That's our weekly bonus episode, non-cocktail, where we talk about the stuff that we really care about. That's patreon.com slash The Sloppy Boys. We really get down to business you know yeah i don't give a shit about such the lemon drop i really don't care about it

but you care about candy bar candy bar i do care about that because candy makes me dandy now what do you say we end this episode with the song we said we'd end it with? It references the shot of the drink of the week. Ladies and gentlemen, you know them, you love them. You love his two co-hosts as well. And you love their band, the Sloppy Boys, off their second album. Their? Second.

Second. Yeah. Third album, Paradiso. Oh, really? Oh, it is. It is. T. Second. Yeah. Third album Paradiso. Oh really? Oh it is. It is. It is. It is. Their third album Paradiso. Here it is. College Night. Dartmouth, Berkeley,

Berkeley, Gonzaga. SUNY, Barnard, Borden, Harvey, Mudd And Gonzaga Yeah, Gonzaga Oh, Gonzaga Hey, Gonzaga And also RISD. It's college night. It's college night It's college night

It's college night Out on the quad It's college night It's college night It's college night On every quad Oh but the deans, the deans are gone. Oh, the deans, they're gone.

And they're crying, crying They're gone to Fire Island Maine or Vermont They're gone and they're all alone In the summer homes. Until fall semester. Because they couldn't bear it. Couldn't bear it.

And they'll never see all those grads again. Never relive the times that they've had as friends. Cause they're gone. They're long gone But that's the life of a dean You gotta touch the teens You say goodbye and then You do it all again

Here we go It's college night It's college night It's college night It's college night out on the quad It's college night It's college night

It's college night for everyone Ah that valedictorian is up in her dorm Kicking herself, man Oh, she's full of regrets Oh, but that's what she gets She should've gone to wing night

Should've gone to wing night A dip of celery stick In the blue cheese dip Got that big tech job Waiting for her out in the bay, boy Ah, but she never danced And now she missed the chance What once a once and twos

Are now ones and zeros What once a once and twos Are now ones and zeros What once a once and twos Are now ones and zeros What once a wasn't twos And I wasn't zeros Cash out your meal plan, my baby got to

Fill your pockets up with the ketchup Fill your pockets up with the ketchup. Fill your pockets up with the hot ketchup. It's college night. It's college night. It's college night out on the quad. It's college night. It's college night. It's college night, oh Christ, oh God

Them townies hoistin' each other up that south campus wall Oh, they just wanna peek Oh yeah, they just wanna see Grad night banners, flags flyin' high Oh, but to them it's all Greek Cause the townies can't read I'm just kiddin kidding about that one, man Just messing around with that one

Don't kick my ass, man Just having a little fun Cause it's two for one Two for one Two for one, so cold So cold A three for one A three for one A three for one

Three for one lemon drop Lemon drop Four for one Four for one Four for one Come and get a shot Come and get a shot Five for one

Five for one Bottles of Dom Perignon, baby It's college night, it's college night It's college night out on the quad It's college night, it's college night It's college night For Asheron Farewell Arrivederci

Adios Later dude Later dude Later, dude. Later, dude.