The Sloppy Boys - 29. Singapore Sling

Episode Date: May 7, 2021

The guys tackle a tiki outlier prepared with… gin??SINGAPORE SLING RECIPE1oz/30ml Gin.5oz/15ml Cherry Liqueur4oz/120ml Pineapple Juice.5oz/15ml Lime Juice.25oz/7ml Cointreau.25oz/7ml Benedictine.33oz/10ml Grenadine1 dash Angostura BittersPour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a highball class. Garnish with pineapple and cocktail cherry.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. What is going down you freaks? And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? And we're your hosts, the sloppy boys. Mike, I wouldn't say you ripped me off, but it's in the same vein. He paid homage.

Yeah, I'm the Cracked Magazine to Mad Men. Okay. Hey, Cracked never did a parody of Mad. They should have. Or vice versa. They were. The whole thing was a parody. Yeah, that's true.

Paradiso, if you ask me. Stop it. Mike. Yes? Stop. Hammer time. Oh, God. Remember him?

Remember those pants we all had to wear? We loved them. We loved the hammer dance. Oh, my God. I can't believe that we all wore those pants. Oh, I called my parents. I said, all the pictures you have of me in my Hammer pants, burn them. I agree, but I will say when I see MC Hammer pop up in a commercial,

ironically, it makes me laugh so hard. I get that stuff. Well, he's still so too legit to quit. I get that stuff. Yeah, I get that stuff. I get that humor. I meant like whatever the product is, I will buy it. I'll buy it too.

Do you guys remember Skids? Yeah. Yeah, what is Skids? I think they were like hammer pants, but they were just like sweatpants that would be like plaid. And the patch on the butt said Skids. Yeah. I had other things going on in my butt with Skids involved. Skid heavy area back there yeah it wasn't just uh it wasn't a childhood drama for me lifelong um i took a big swing with some skids brand pants one time where i had a bunch of those

and they were like yeah pajama pants kind of skatery more maybe a little bit grungy, but, um, yeah, I went to Marshall's and I bought a pair that was like two-tone where one leg was denim and the other leg was plaid. And then on the back, it was reversed. And I remember wearing those. I went to like a family wedding and I wore them, I guess, my that's so wild like first of all it's nice to know there's a precedent for all those crazy pants i'm seeing at like urban outfitters or whatever where we're like one leg is red and the other one is denim yeah a real great president yeah well they were probably scouting styles at this uh montreal wedding that one wedding were these pants tim like did they have like a belt loop like were they

that style or i'm yeah i'm picturing something kind of like pretty almost like pajama right pajama but then they were they did have elastic at the bottom and held tight to your ankles my my mom made me a pair of skids and michael you'll be just as good as those kids. I could make those, but I want them to be bought for me. No, no. And they were humongous. Like they were way too big for me. And I was like, all right, I'll wear these. So the thing with skids was the patterns, right?

Like, yeah, they were off the wall. And they all look like fruit stripe gum or like a Huffy bike or like a Nickelodeon jet ski. Do you remember Levi's big jeans? No. It was like their brand. Big jeans. Yeah. Like trying to be like Jankos.

Yeah, they weren't that big. They were just a little like baggier that weren't like, you know, over the top. I just the commercial, the song from the commercial pops in my head every once in a while. And it was like, living large, living large, with those big jeans, you're living large. Does that ring a bell?

No. No. Am I losing it completely? A little too much quarantine time. I remember like, was it Levi's? They were, this was after that. This was maybe in high school or like 2000. It was like hard jeans.

Levi's hard. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That rings a bell. Good luck getting into these jeans. Yeah, these ones will hurt your knees. Where are you? Good luck bending your knee in these, man.

You jackass. Hey, this is some personal news before we get into some booze news oh some use news i'm looking at uh getting a pedal board putting together a pedal board oh for the for the rock and roll side yeah yeah for my you know for my rock career yeah there's the there's the podcast doing very well great pocket this is right roll side also doing very well oh yeah the band is doing so good yes yeah um jeff here's the cool thing about the pedal board it's not only fun to buy the the pedals you get to have a lot of fun arranging your board oh i might bypass this no i maybe i'll bypass that yeah yeah yeah oh what do i put first is it the compressor first do i get fuzzy with

most of my songs i'll keep that pretty close but now there's so many sizes like there's a uh a brand that everybody uses called pedal train and you can make your own if you're cool and stuff but i'm gonna try and like uh do the standard thing if you add two inches in any direction they have a size for that so it's like you could do you can do like 20 inches size for that. So it's like, you can do, you can do like 20 inches for that. 22 inches, 24 inches. Uh, it's a little dude go 10 feet,

fill the whole stage with that board. Yeah. I want you running up and down that board. Like Tom Hanks in big dancing on the piano. Would it, what an uniconic scene? God, uh, would it be safe to say Jeff,

that if you told Ozzy Osbourne or if Ozzy Osbourne was going to tell us this news, he'd be safe to say, Jeff, that if you told Ozzy Osbourne, or if Ozzy Osbourne was going to tell us this news, he'd say, hey guys, Jeff's thinking about buying a pedal train. It's safe to say. Safe to say. I don't feel any sort of inherent risk involved

with saying that. No, I think that's fine. Safe bet. Safe bet he's going to say that. Jeff, bring us along on your pedal board journey. Give us check-ins. Let us know how it's going. Sure. And hey, follow us on social media if you want to see some Instagrams of my pedal board in progress. I love social media. Guys, you got to check us out on social media. It's like probably one of the best places to see our tweets. It's a great way. yeah, it's a great way

to share tweets and photos and thoughts and upcoming events. Well, shall we get into some Booze News? Hit it! I like that idea very much. Booze News Breaking News, the only

news that I consume With a twist of lemon Booze News How do I know this? What is this? The Captain, Jose, Jack, and Jim Off to storm the Capitol again Booze News

Booze News I will sit right down Waiting for the gift of double vision Sure, a bridge in a theme song. This is nice. It's very calm. I will sing Waiting for the gift of double vision It is calm.

Double vision. Oh, double vision because you get drunk. It's booze news, you bitch and shits. What? It's booze and shits, it sounded like. Oh, okay. I thought it was fish and chips. You fish and chips.

Booze news sent to us by Bad Liver Piss. Woof. That. I love I love A I loved it it was an original composition just a song with a melody and everything but yeah that's a Bowie thing oh that's a Bowie oh is it that's like a Bowie song he was doing kind of a Bowie voice that makes sense but is that a Bowie melody yeah the fuck

if you know the song tweet it at us i'm familiar with david bowie had a song about the bud light out of office pack yeah yes right that do ring a bell that does ring a bell uh he was what's this person's name oh bad liver piss bad liver piss sounds like he was doing the thing we've all done where you're trying to sing a song in your apartment, so you're kind of like, I'm going off the rails on a crazy train. About booze and booze.

You're trying to get soulful and get big with it, but your neighbor is on the other side of your wall. You don't want to be embarrassed. I know. But that could have just been a levels thing. I've been there. Who knows? Been there. I've been there and I like when the vocal level's up high and the backing track is low so you can hear some of the breaths between

the lines. I like when I'm yelling a stupid song for this podcast and I don't think anyone's home in my neighbor's apartment and I hear like them put a glass down. I'm like, no. They've been in there the whole time.

Yeah, exactly. Sorry. Well, thank you, Bad Liver Piss. We love it. Michael, you've got some booze news. Share it. I've got some booze news. This is exciting stuff.

Now, we've all had natural light. Yeah, natty light, I call it. The cheapest, wateriest beer on the market. They have a new product that is malt liquor, but not in a liquid state. It is frozen. Okay, Mike. Introducing the new Natural Light Natterday's Strawberry Lemonade and Pineapple Lemonade Popsicles. Oh, boy.

Okay. I'm into it. This is something you're going to be getting your tongue on near the beach, out in the sun, that type of thing. Yeah, boy. I'm into it. This is something you're going to be, you know, getting your tongue on near the beach, out in the sun, that type of thing. Yeah, yeah. And how much, they're spiked, huh? Spiked. Oh, of course. And they are, what's the ABV?

Eight ABV, but the volume of each one is about like a third of a beer. Hmm. Oh, because it's a small pop. Yeah. So have you ever had those Natterdays? I've never had a Natterday. People like them. I had the Natterday, and it was good. It's Yeah. So have you ever had those Natter Days? I've never had a Natter Day. People like them.

I had the Natter Day and it's good. It's their hard seltzer, right? Yep. It's a great name. Wait, Tim, you said you had one? I had the Natter Day. They have two. They have one that's just called like their hard cider cider.

And then I don't know what specifically makes one a Natter Day, but I had a cherry lime one that kind of reminded me of a cherry lime Ricky. It was very good now as part of the promotion for this thing natural light is bringing back its paid intern program i i just am reading this off a website i didn't know they had a paid intern program and they're looking for someone to help launch new natter day frozen icicles and run a traveling lemonade shack the three of us we should should do it. I know. I know. To be determined destinations in June. It's $40 an hour plus up to $25,000 in bonuses. $40 an hour for an internship. That's a good internship. Yeah. So applications are being accepted on social media. Interested candidates need to post a sell us a Natterday days 30 second sales pitch video using hashtag netty intern

contest so do that out there yeah we should get a slop head uh driving i would love if a slop head was yeah that would be great did you guys ever know anybody who had one of those like amazing college internship type things like people who are brand ambassadors for like red bull or sega or whatever yeah i did both did both. I did those. I had a really good one within the entertainment business. For a summer, I was Marlon Brando's assistant, and I had to cut open his shit anytime he ate change to make sure it passed through his system correctly. But it had already passed through.

Okay, now is there a thing about Marlon Brando eating shit? Eating change? I don't know. Hey, I had to think fast on that one. Okay, but no real ones. No real. No, we have no real ones. You know that we interned, me and Mike interned together

at Craig Kilbourne's Late Late Show, and you know this. That's right. And you know we did the sticky walk anytime he was coming up behind us and we wanted to slow down so we could have him pass us in the hall. Yeah, well, we don't need to tell you about the sticky walk we did. And say, good show. And then he wouldn't hear us and he kept walking. And you know that I took a whiz next to Kevin Smith. Why are we even talking about this?

And you know I stood next to Kevin Garnett and was amazed by how tall he was. Yeah, because you would think he'd be short. He's short, right, as a pro basketball player. Timothy, you got that booze news? I got a little bit of booze news here that was a little bit of a curveball. This is not your typical booze news.

This is basically the story here is that I remembered something. Just boom. Something struck me. And I said, I got told. Tim's synapses are snapping. Yeah. I could leave it at that and just let you guys know that I remembered something.

But okay. So, you know, during the Cosmo episode and during the Harvey Wallbanger episode, we talked about fern bars and how they were the singles bars of the 70s. And we said it all started with TGI Fridays. The original one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan was a singles bar. And then eventually over the decades, it just spun off to be a family restaurant. That's that. We knew that.

I put it out of my mind. I never wanted to think about it ever again. Then a couple nights ago, I was laying in bed, and suddenly I had a revelation. And my synapses were firing. You're right about that. And I connected some dots, and I said, wait a second. Did you guys ever see a mid-20 teens TGI Fridays commercial starring our friend Echo Kellum?

No. No. When was it? Mid-2015? If he was doing a commercial, he's kind of a big star now. So maybe 2015 or something like that. Okay. There's a commercial I remember watching where he's a bartender and he says, uh, he's looking right at the camera

and he's like, well, I got you your burger. I got you your beer. Anything else is up to you. Oh, that kind of rings a bell. And, uh, and I remember making a note of it because I was like, Hey, there's Echo. Cool. He's great. But I don't know why. I was laying in bed the other night and that commercial popped in my head. And I was like, oh, wait a second. I think that that was like a sexy commercial. Like they were trying to, they were maybe in the mid-20 teens bringing back the sexy factor. Like this is a social scene where it's like this could be a launch pad for fun stuff. Yeah, anything goes like you

know whatever you want yeah you come here for the food and drink but it's the other people and the and the hanging out you want to be a part of right and they can't a brand like this can't come right out and be like hey hook up and get laid here but they they want to imply it so i i went looking for the ad and i couldn't find echo's ad but i found another one from the same campaign so that you could get a sense of it and here i'm sending you guys the link in the chat or emails and um uh it's 30 seconds if we say three two one play want to watch it together yeah yes and so let's only if you say three two one play three two one play and and then we press play on play. No, play on two, and then we'll keep counting down the rest of the way. Okay.

3, 2, 1, play. Like those potstickers, huh? Happening. See? Shed of pasta. Now, what else can I get you? Oh, my God. He's looking right at the camera when he says that.

That burger looked good. Hands reaching for food. Big two for just 10 bucks. Anything else? Well, that's your call. See those eyes? Seductive. This guy wants to fuck me.

Two, the guy wants two for maybe a date. The bartender's taking pictures of the girls. Oh yeah. See, this is a meetup spot.ender's taking pictures of the girls. Oh, yeah. See? That's funny. This is a meet-up spot. Yes, and they're just kind of like, there's like a sexy lady kind of like readjust herself on a stool.

Just like, ooh, I'm going to sit this way. I need to look good here because this is a hook-up spot now. It's TGI Friday. I didn't like the suggestive, the opening line of like, what else can I get you? It was a little bit like, can I help you with some dick?

How about my hard wing? It's kind of funny. No, I want the drink I ordered. I'd like to leave here without tipping. And showing big, just big, juicy, juicy burgers and stuff is funny to get at me. It's like kind of the George Costanza thing of like drinks and food and sex altogether. It's like kind of the George Costanza thing of like drinks and food and sex altogether. It's also been like,

get, eat our shitty food that makes you have diarrhea immediately and then come out of the bathroom and find a date. Well, they're probably hoping that we're all fecal freaks. Yeah. I just thought it was funny. Have it.

We've all, the three of us have done a lot of work on like branded comedy videos. So we've seen behind the curtain of like how brands have product briefs. How they think of themselves. Yeah. Yeah, it's cool. It is. Yeah.

Oh, it's awesome. The way that like I wrote a song for Cheez-Its when it was like Cheez-Its eaters, they're bold. They don't follow the trends. They want real cheese. And you could just feel the meeting and like the PowerPoint presentation behind this.

And I just don't know when I saw it on TV. I don't know if any of it came across to me, but I like thinking they were going to reenter this single scene. Subliminally, it did. Is the original TGI Friday still up on the Upper East Side? I don't know. I'm going to guess no, but that's just a guess. Well, Tim, Tim shot awake and remembered something in bed. I had that happen

to me just the other day when we did the Josie and the Pussycats blowout that happened earlier this week. I was, the morning we were recording that, I shot up in bed and I was like, I fucking forgot to watch that movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's happened to me. I was like, I fucking forgot to watch that movie. Oh yeah. Oh, that's happened to

me. And I was like, I, and I was like for the past all weekend, I had nothing to do and I couldn't watch that movie 10 times over, but I was like, I got to do that today. It's so humiliating. I have as a lot, like, and I confess it to Jessica that like, when I have that feeling like, oh fuck, I have work to do. And then I remember how stupid my work is that it's just like oh my god i'm really uh like under the wire here at work i gotta watch this 90 minute romp but it is it was like it was like a feeling like i can't let tim let tim and jeff down yeah you wouldn't be letting us down you'd be letting the patrons down yeah the patrons i'd be letting the patrons i let myself Yeah, the Patrons. I'd be letting the Patrons, I'd be letting myself down. Yeah. I'm just waiting for the day where I wake up and the

episode didn't get uploaded the night before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like I wake up to a bunch of tweets being like, hello, where's the pod? Hello, shithead. Hello, McFly. I, you know, for the people who are not Patrons, be a Patron and get on over there. That was a good

episode that Josie and the Pussycat. Damn, damn, that was great. The movie. Damn. I think that's it for the Boozy Newsy. Wrap it up. Do, do, do, do, do. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.

That should be the new out. And that's Booze News. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. You're loving it. Well, well, well. Look at us now. We're hot shots. We just covered booze news.

We're done with the podcast. Wrong. Absolutely wrong. If you're listening right now, we're getting into the drink of the day. Today's drink of the day. Say it with me. The Singapore Sling. Oh, the Singapore Sling.

You had? Yes. I think so. You had. At Good Luck, right? Did they have one? Yeah, they had their own tea. They had the Beijing Sling, but it was very similar.

I think it counts. Well, it's a sling. And they have it at the Tiki Tea. They have the Singapore, which is also their own little take. Ah. I didn't know it was like a Tiki drink. I had always in my head just thought of it as a, I don't know what I thought of it as.

Maybe like a, like a kind of a brandy-ish thing, like a whiskey drink. It has, it's tiki, its reputation around the tiki bar scene is that like, it's part of the tiki stable,

but you know, actually, it actually predates the tiki ones. And so that, I mean, it kind of stands out because it's gin. So in the tiki stable, but you know, actually, it actually predates the tiki ones. And so that, I mean, it kind of stands out because it's gin. So in a tiki menu that's all rum, this is just known as the gin drink. Yeah, I'm excited to try this. It's got a cool little backstory. And this might be one where there's, there are like, oh, but it was actually talked about in a book much earlier than this, but who cares?

It's a better story. So Singapore at one time was an English colony. This is like the early 20th century. And at this place called the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, a lot of people would come here. This was like Charlie Chaplin would go to Singapore or maybe specifically this hotel. Charlie Chaplin and Somerset Maugham. And who's the other person that struck my fancy? I'll tell you guys, Chaplin cracks me up, man.

This stuff, very physical. He kind of leans a little more on the physicality. Yeah, I'm like a Buster Keaton guy, but keep going, Mike. Okay, this is great. Let's talk about it later at length. Who was the other person? Noel Coward was the person i was trying to think of noel gallagher people would go out they'd like sit on the veranda of the long bar

they'd be drinking their drinks the men would and it was customary that the women were not allowed in that time customary that they wouldn't drink in public so a bartender at the Long Bar here at Raffles Hotel, this is 1915. His name is Niamh Tong Boon. And he saw this and he decided to make a special cocktail where no one would know that they're drinking alcohol. Sneaky. Sneaky. So, yeah, he called it the Singapore Sling. Hell yeah.

Have you guys ever heard of a sling, like a gin sling? No. sling. Have you guys ever heard of a sling, like a gin sling? No. I know that slings are in the same way that it's like, there's a whole bunch of fizzes and there's a whole bunch of punches. Oh yeah. Sling is one of those, but I don't know what makes a sling a sling. Sling, people think it comes from the German word schlingen. Schwing. And a schlingen, I guess, means to gulp or swallow hastily. So it's something you kind of sling back into your face. Hey, all right.

I'm going to do some schlingan. But a sling, a gin sling, like the traditional basic gin sling, is two ounces of gin, tablespoon of sugar, a handful of ice, and freshly grated nutmeg. So that's pretty simple. But the Singapore sling that we're going to deal with today is we're talking an ounce of gin a half ounce of cherry liqueur four ounces juiced pineapple juice half ounce juiced lime juice fourth ounce of cointreau.

Another fourth ounce of Dom Benedictine, which I've never heard of before. I haven't, but I never heard of. I get a lot of thoughts. And then a third ounce of grenadine. And a dash of Angostura bitters, which we all have. Pour all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker

filled with ice. Love this. Shake it well. Strain into a highball glass. Garnish not with an orange, but with a pineapple and cocktail shetty. Hmm. So wait. Served up.

No ice. Yes. Really? What? That's what this thing says. Strain into a highball glass. Although this picture we have found. Every picture has it in a big hurricane glass, and I was excited to use that.

I'm going to use it. Yeah. I'm using it. Go for it. Go for it. I say go for it. And you know what? I'm putting ice in there too, baby.

Oh, my God. That's what I'm saying. I think go for it. Let me just take one. Yeah, I'm looking at pics now. I'm seeing within with ice, but more ice. So you're not crazy. I'm seeing a lot of ice here, too.

That's a nice tropically looking drink. That looks like it's pink. It looks like one of these... Oh, it looks like it's kind of foamy on top. I think hopefully the shaking makes it foamy. That could have just been fish piss that got in there by accident. It is liquid, and that's where fish live.

The Singapore sling. Now, we talked about this pre-pod. Cherry liqueur. Oh, boy. All right. What the heck? What is that? When you just casually read the rundown of ingredients, you see cherry liqueur.

And you're guys like us who say, we got maraschino liqueur. Mike has maraschino juice. Juice. Are you referring to that or do we have to go out and buy a whole different thing yeah because the grocery store doesn't have cherry liqueur no yeah nobody then you go on every like site and it's like what is cherry liqueur can I use Luxardo can I use anything else Aperol sprit. And it's like, wow, everything can be switched for everything. I was like, what the hell?

I do hate that when people go down too far down the road of switching variants. So we were confused and we said, hey, let's turn to the big dogs. So we put in a call and we got back this voicemail. Hit it. Hey, sloppy boys. Jack Schramm, your favorite

internet bartender here. So happy that you reached out to me with this question. The Singapore Sling is one of my all-time favorite tropical drinks. Absolutely delicious, even if most people put way too much pineapple juice in it. Oh, boy. All right. The specific question is about cherry liqueur and which one to use. So in this case, for this cocktail,

the product that the recipes are referring to is called cherry hearing, which is a combination of neutral grain spirits macerated with fresh cherries and a combination of spices. It's like 21% alcohol. So definitely on the lower ABv end of the spectrum uh a lot sweeter than uh maraschino so basically the difference between he says cherry hearing you know maraschino and cherry brandy or kirsch or kirschwasser depending on which you know cherry brandy you're using is uh the cherry hearing is going to be the sweetest by far.

It's also going to have the most acid. Like it has the brightest cherry flavor of the three. Uh, the maraschino is going to be in the middle in terms of sweetness, but have the most botanical character and be the sort of, uh, that like, you know,

weird, dusty, dirty bitterness that works really nicely in in some drinks but i don't think it would be a good thing for the singapore sling you want that fruit forward character and then uh kirschwasser the you know german cherry brandies are going to be the driest by far sometimes unsweetened absolutely delicious but i would say probably not right for this application okay that said uh if you don't want to go out and buy a bottle of cherry hearing because you're only going to use it to make singapore slings and the occasional blood and sand even though that's one

of the worst cocktails of all time but we can talk about that later i would say that use a little bit more grenadine and maybe just a scoach less of the maraschino that you already have, and the drink will turn out just fine. Another pro tip, Alwadi brand pomegranate molasses as a way to bump up the flavor profile of, hopefully you're not using a rose as a grenadine.

And Mike, if I find out that you put that bright red terror juice from a bottle of commercial maraschino cherries, I'm calling the IBA. I'm having them come to your home. Your tins will be taken from you. Your jiggers will be confiscated. We're going to unspool all the springs on your Hawthorne strainers and you will not be allowed to make cocktails again.

Please do not put that garbage juice in a drink again. All right. Thanks, sloppy boys. No, thank you, Schrammer. Thank you. So, first of all, I don't own a Hawthorne Strainer, bud. Good luck unspooling the springs. Messing with my stuff i can't i'm getting it from all angles here i'm getting it from text on the discord and now audio smack down all medium i've

had enough of it all medium um so the the takeaway that that was a lot of info. But Tim, you said that when you went to Cap and Cork, our local specialist, you saw all these in real life. I saw all this and it was very helpful because the Kirschwasser looks like a cherry schnapps that's clear and you see it a lot. And he said, that one's delicious, but too dry for this. Don't do it. And then I saw the cherry hearing that he mentioned and then he saw it i saw it uh and then i also considered doing what he recommended which is just use a little bit of our normal luxardo maraschino and then a little bit more of the grenadine to make up for it but i like cherry stuff and i didn't mind shelling out the extra bucks to have another cherry thing on my bar so i i got us the uh the cherry hearing uh which he recommended mike

what do you have i have a luxardo so i think what you do is use a little bit less a teeny bit less luxardo than they tell you to and then a teeny bit more grenadine. But that brings us to Jack Dragon Rose's grenadine, which- A staple. That's all I got, man. I got to be honest. That's all you can find. I've got the fancy stuff that I bought. I've got very fancy.

I got my sister, who's a food blogger, made me some grenadine from pomegranate. I got that. Oh, nice. And then I also have roses. But I got to be honest, like, I do love roses. And I'm looking at these pictures of Singapore slings on the internet, and they're nice and pink. And I think if I use the fancy grenadines, which are darker, I'm going to have like a brown drink. grenadines which are darker i'm gonna have like a brown drink well what was the thing he mentioned at the end the pomegranate molasses yeah like that seems like the next like a fancy grenadine

because grenadine is cherry and pomegranate right yes yes um you know what i was assumed i could find but didn't you know like i don't know how you say it the kuiper the kuiper they make like pucker they make like fruity bullshit like cheap triple sec and i just figured yeah pucker rings bell i figured that you could just find like any sort of dumb fruit flavor as a low proof liqueur yeah like oh yeah grab some of that watermelon grab some of that, grab some of that watermelon, grab some of that cherry, grab some of that mango. Is there not pucker cherry? I haven't seen any. I bet it exists though. Well, I stole a little nip, not to get too spoilery, but I stole a little nip of cherry herring and I really do like it.

And just a tip for the slob heads that don't have it, it reminds me a lot of the syrup that is in those fancy Luxardo cherries we love so much. So if you don't have cherry hearing, maybe drizzle a little bit of the jar from your dark cherries and you might get a little bit of the same effect, but then maybe bump up the booze to counteract that. You know what else I'm seeing online here is Dr. McGillicuddy's cherry liqueur. Oh, we discussed Dr. McGillicuddy's. Yeah.

That was, um, fireball, right? The original fireball from searooms. You're right. Yes. Interesting.

Uh, one other point he made, he said that this is one of his favorite tropical drinks. As long as you don't put too much pineapple, I'm looking at his IBA. They are calling for a lot of pineapple. I like pineapple juice. I'm sticking with the IBA here. It's an IBA

podcast. I want to start from here and then move on. Maybe round two we do little tweaks. Yeah. Then we pop out and get the molasses. Plus, I don't know if you've heard this, but it's kind of a thing that pineapple juice can actually make your drink taste good. Okay.

That was a close one. That was a close one. That was close. We could have gotten blue. Well, shall we? Yep. Yes. Folks.

Yes. We'll be right back. Zazu. We'll be right back. Zazu! Hey, folks, we want to pump the brakes on this episode and talk about a great podcast called Bizarre Albums from our good, good pal, Tony Thaxton. This is a great one.

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pineapple garnish so I had to pull in the big guns but I got a Luxardo sitting pretty right up top I got a normal I have no garnish whatsoever Hanford that's a cool move you want with a champagne flute huh yeah it was my tallest glass

at the ready. You ever... When I was making this, I had one lime and I was like, perfect, one lime. And then I tried to squeeze it and it was like... It was one of those dry... Just the husk of a lime. Lime dust.

It was a little bit on the old side, but not too old, but it was like Chevy Chase carving into the Thanksgiving turkey. It was a little bit on the old side, but not too old, but it was like Chevy Chase carving into the Thanksgiving turkey. It was just like. That when they are eating the turkey in that scene, I'm always like, oh, that's so gross. That just hits me in a way that's like, oh, yeah, that was me with the line. But I just kept squeezing and squeezing and I eventually got enough juice to make the drink. But oh, I had to finesse it.

Sips? I think so. Bott, I had to finesse it. Sips? I think so. Bottoms up. Let's do it. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, baby. Yeah, that's fucking good.

That's good. You're getting a lot of different flavors in that. I don't know. Honestly, bitters are kind of coming through, which is crazy because there's not a lot of bitters compared to everything else in there. Yeah. Maybe some of that Benedictine too is that sharp taste right at the end. I do this. It's delicious, but this does feel

like a juice bomb. You know, Jack warned against too much pineapple juice. This feels like this would be hard to stomach like multiple of these because it's a lot of vitamin C. Four ounces of juice is a lot i i wish i'd put more maybe more lime i like lime in the drinks wasn't didn't the original version not have pineapple at all it's just like citrus and and gin and this other shit oh just the regular sling oh yeah the regular gin sling was gin, sugar, and nutmeg, grated nutmeg.

Okay. You know, Snoop used to drink gin and juice. He actually made a whole song about it. He now is more of a smoker, a pot smoker. Well, really, he's more of a judge on singing contestant shows. There you go. This is, you know what would be good? I'm putting like, I feel like

a sort of milkshake-y version of this would be really good. Oh, like a slurpy version. Mm-mm-mm. You mean? Like something with some cream in it. Some dairy. Yeah.

Make it sort of a... Oh, like a pina colada. Yeah, maybe that is a pina colada i don't know i might i have that going already because i accidentally spilled a lot of heavy cream into mine as i was mixing it up so i'm kind of oh geez i have heavy cream maybe from how did you guys like measuring a quarter ounce of these things i i was like that's like the very smallest thing i could even measure in my measuring cup i uh i didn't love. I hope I never have to do it again. I probably,

my secret is to just get all the measurements wrong. And say, yeah, close enough. I nailed mine. I was a law-abiding citizen today. And you know, I love it. They did a good job over at IBA. That's very good. The sling. Singapore sling.

When you guys shook it and you poured it, was it 100% froth for a little bit and then you got worried? It was a lot of froth, but I wasn't very worried. I wasn't stressing out about it. I was excited. You guys are probably just more casual than him. I noticed that when you shake pineapple, it turns to like completely to a foam

and then it's settled to just be foam on the top two inches. It's froth. Keep it down in there. completely do a foam and then it's settled to just be foam on the top two inches. It's froth. Keep it down in there. I couldn't, uh, I couldn't get the cap off my, uh, shaker.

It was like, got so cold. I think it like distorted the tin and it couldn't get it. I still, it's not off. So I had to peel the whole thing off. Hmm. My God,

it's good. I am happy with this. Yes, me too. i've been made happy on this day and uh for round two i was like maybe i won't do as much pineapple juice but i think they kind of nailed the recipe i might just out of curiosity try what jack said maybe i'll go i would do less pineapple juice and then i'll try with my fancy grenadine to see if that makes things better. But in general, like this is working for me and you know, it's like tiki. It's, it's cool that it's gin because I know that this is not an official tiki drink. Everybody get off my back about that. It's not official. You fuck. But, um, it is though. Well, yeah, like I know it's not

official, but, but like it's juice it's spice it's and i i think you actually are right it's like so don the beachcomber i remember hearing about this because i i read a book about him and then like beach bum barry barry right is like a guy like a blogger who talks a lot about tiki stuff and i do think that don the beachcomber went to the raffles hotel in singapore had this drink loved it so then years later when he was coming up with all of his kooky drinks that he was pulling out of his ass like the the zombie which this was very zombie-esque how mixing it up with this many ingredients yeah yeah um i had to keep going back to the recipe so many times but you're right like

when when people are like it's not official tiki it's like well official tiki is fake made up polynesian uh appropriated drinks so it's like i'm sorry it's not real fake it's like when people get upset about the star wars universe right exactly and he was basing his new drinks off of drinks like this that he loved and then he put this one on the menu as well so yeah it it counts as tiki i I bet he would kill to have invented the Singapore sling. This is the first drink I've had with Luxardo that doesn't taste like an ashtray.

Here we go. You know, I took a little sip of that Dom Benedictine and I didn't like it on its own, but it would be, maybe a little more in this would be good. I could use a little, uh, yeah, a little pincher. So Dom Benedictine reminds me of Dr. Benedicto, but, uh, hopefully we're not going to be hearing from them anytime soon.

No, no. Hopefully we never hear from those two ever again. You can keep them straight by just know like Dr. Benedicto hangs out with little thriller and produces bad music. We don't like, and we sometimes play here. Bad pop music. Yeah. But I guess my question is, Don Benedictine, I didn't try a sip as I was going. Is that just another star anise bottle that I got to find?

I was ready to smash my bottle in anger, but it wasn't too licorice-y. It reminded me of chartreuse and actually i think that it is another one made by monks benedictine is french maybe made by benedictine monks very chartreusean in in oh yeah oh quite chartreusean it's got a cool uh red stamp like one of those uh wax stamps yeah yeah, like a maker's mark. Yeah. There's not too many flavors out there, I guess, because if you're not going to be full-on black licorice,

there's this other taste a lot of them have that's just like sweet and kind of like floral. I looked it up and it said it's like made from 27 flowers and herbs. And my brain can't calculate that. You have to give me something. You got to say like, hey, Campari is- Like Dr. Pepper. Yeah. And I guess with Dr. Pepper, I don't remember not having Dr. Pepper. So to me, I grew up with it as a flavor. But with these liqueurs, it helps me so much when you say like Campari or Aperol,

when you're like, it's mainly orange peels and rhubarb, but then there's also 300 other little things. If you don't tell me what the main thing is, I don't know what to make of it. You know? Yeah. Yep.

Now Jack was talking, he was talking about Maraschino. He was saying Maraschino. Yeah. Is that how you say that word? Has everyone just been saying it wrong forever? That's not how I say it, but I say itino. Yeah. Is that how you say that word? Has everyone just been saying it wrong forever? That's not how I say it, but I say it wrong. Yeah, I don't know.

How's it spelled? Is it possible that people pronounce it one way for liqueurs and another way for cherries? That would be maddening. Interesting. It's probably just a place in Italy that's called Maraschino. But I'm going to keep, you know, I made it 37 years saying she know i'm not gonna switch now you know it's like los feliz los feliz yeah we all know where you're going damn it's good now did you guys happen to record yourself while you were making this drink

just now no just not just now no so i actually did. I said I accidentally had my voice memo app open and on. Oh, my God. Stupid. This sounds embarrassing. So I... No, it's not embarrassing. It's just you'll see what happens. Sorry, it's not embarrassing.

But you'll hear what happened. It's a podcast, dude. This afternoon, I went to, of all things, a Trogs concert. You know who the Trogs are from the 60s? Yeah, what's their song? I do. Wild Thing. Wild Thing.

Yeah. I went to a concert of theirs this afternoon. Free concert in the park, socially distanced. Yeah, yeah. I thought to myself, why not? I got the afternoon off. Sure. What am I doing? I'll why not? I got the afternoon off. Sure. What am I doing?

I'll go down and check out the trucks. They're doing some sort of revival reunion thing. And I must have had the damn song in my head because this is what happened. This is my voice memo. You must have. I was making the thing. Wild flame. Okay. I was making the thing. Wild sling.

Okay. Yes, I want that thing. That makes sense. Yeah. It's from Singapore, the country. Oh, wild sling. Singapore sling, I think I'll make you oh boy sensual so i'm gonna do some porous oh shit i uh missed the glass

it's all over the floor oh nasty oh God, it's all over the place. It's so sticky. Perfect. Yes, perfect. Oh, FML. F my fucking L. Right up the A. Oh, man.

It's in the dustpan. Oh, man. It's in the dustpan. Oh, no. I think that I am gonna drink from the dustpan. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, man. oh man major barf emoji oh can you believe it i drank out of the dust yeah major barf emoji yeah major well that's

that's people say that all they do see They do. See, Mike, you're never going to shake this reputation of screwing up the drinks if you drink out of the dustpan. I know. Well, I luckily had time. You guys are taking a little longer, so I made mine quickly. Another one very quickly, and I'm happy with this one. Champagne glass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

The dustpan one was awful. Literally awful. I got to say, I do think, heard um that file you just played us from your voice memo app i definitely agree i do think that what happened was after the troggs concert you had that song in your head yeah yeah yeah because i sort of that sounded a lot like that song very similar very similar to and they played that at the concert it was the it was the encore that was the last thing I heard before I left if they had opened with it you probably would have forgotten all about it but when it's the

closer that's gonna stick in your head that's why they do that huh it's an adventure that's why Smash Mouth plays all-star last so you go right like I got it you go home you sing it when your mom your mom's like well how was the concert you're like somebody once told me that was great they played that last that's also why smash mouth plays that song at a fair and everyone's throwing food at them and then they get mad and have a meltdown on youtube and they threaten not to play all-star god what's the story behind that why were people throwing throwing bread or something funny or like water bottles. Oh yeah. You got hit with like a water bottle or

something and he was like if you don't stop we're not playing all star and then they started playing it anyway and he like sang it mad. Yeah.

Oh he's like stomping around the stage like angrily. Oh somebody once told me. That's I mean I chalked that up to like they just had a

bad day because otherwise Smash Mouth has been very cool and well-adjusted. They might as well be walking on the sun for all I care, my God. Ooh, Mike, you downed it. This is done as a full success for me. Hey, a true sling, huh? The way you sucked that down. Yeah, I really slung that, slinged it back.

I'm impressed. I'm having trouble getting through. I want to make a second round to do some tweakage, but I'm having trouble getting through this much juice. The juice is loose. You're drinking from a straw. Maybe you got to ditch the straw and do some gulps. I'm going to ditch the straw.

You guys both have some cool hurricane glasses there. That's worse. Now I'm getting the froth on top and that's bubbling me up. Oh, boy. Mike. I think I'm getting the froth on top and that's bubbling me up. Oh boy. Mike. I think I'm a juice man. This stuff agrees with me. This agrees with me. I can't have too much juice. I will say though, having just

like drank the whole thing, it's very like my lips are kind of like pursing together because it's so sugary. I'm doing the duck lip. I'm doing my usual selfie face. Duck lips. Yeah, no.

I thought, is Mike doing a selfie? I'm doing my Kendall Jenner look. Well, should we do a round tour? Yeah, I'm going to discard. Tim. I'm going to pour this out into a side cup for drinking later on my own time. But I want to make one with less pineapple

and fancy grenadine to see what cocktail expert Jack Schramm thinks. I was going to say, you better donate that to Jessica or something. I'm going to bring it down to Goodwill. Yeah, do it. Jessica Rabbit. Jeff, she's a toon. How would she even... We'll get into that later. Alright, round two. Folks, we'll be right back.

And we're back. And we're back. We're back. And we're better than ever. What did you guys do differently i put uh heavy cream in in mine and uh made sort of a hepto bismo looking thing you sure did look at it oh boy take some pics oh yeah i should take a picture it looks like a fribble at uh friendlies fribble yeah it looks thick well what did you guys do i did half as much pineapple juice i basically did a little more than two ounces. Me too.

I did exactly that, half as much pineapple, but then I also switched to fancy grenadine for this round. Ooh. I'm taking Jack Schramm's advice right now. Oh, good. Great. Here we go. Ooh. Sp we go. Ooh.

Spicier. Getting a little more of that Benedictine and Angostura. A little more Benedicto and a little Thrilla, baby. Yeah. This is pretty good. I mean, also great. Yeah. Oh, how's that, Mike?

Good. It's way too, there's like a weird foam on the top that's tough to cut through. But yeah, let me take a picture of this before I finish it all. God damn. Wow. This could be a little successful innovation on your part, Mike. Mike's test kitchen. Yes, you're not such a fool after all.

The joke's on us. Mine is, mine's great. I liked the first one, but i like this a lot better because yeah i'm getting the spicy liqueurs and it tastes fancier and the gin is coming through and the other one just had too much juice but this this is still pretty juicy it's not like this is not juicy but now we're getting into zombie territory where i'm saying oh a bunch of weird shit going on in there. In a good way. Drink too many of these, you get yourself drunk.

Yeah. Well, what do we think? I mean, how are we ranking these guys? I mean, it's an order again. Yeah. But I mean, I don't want to leave it at that. I feel like I should celebrate this drink more. I'll tell you why it deserves to be celebrated.

It's a gin drink at a tiki bar. That's fun. Yeah, that is fun. It's unique. There's so much rummy, and I love all that rum shit, but this is a nice break from the rum at a tiki bar. And I would say I love this, and i would order it again but i would specifically not say second round sometimes we say second round i can't have two of these in

a night too juicy that's a good point that's if i drink too much juice i got a sweaty sleep you guys know that oh juice does it well a lot of things do it's the sugar um one a high temperature will do it like if i try to sleep in a sauna sure another thing is if i'm in bed and then like something's making me really nervous like if the nasdaq plunges yeah i'll get sweaty in my sleep if i'm like playing a game of basketball while i'm sleeping yeah exactly hard like playing my guts out or if i I go to sleep and I'm wearing thick, thick fleeces head to toe. If I'm sleeping on a

grill. That's great. I think it's order agains all around. In a way, I get it. We're not going to drink too many of these at once, but I'm going to have this one and I'm probably going to make another one tonight because I got all the stuff out.

This is good report back. Let us know how you slept because I'll be very impressed with you if you can take down like eight ounces of pineapple juice and sleep well. Sure. Bone dry. I could do it in the morning, but not late night. You know what? This takes me back to, what's that bar in San Francisco? Like the Tonga Hut?

Tonga Room? Tonga Room. Tonga Room. Tonga Hut is up in Burbank, right? That's right. Yeah, that's a good place to be. The Tonga Room. They make those strong-ass tiki drinks. Yeah, baby. And they got the rain falling from the ceiling. They got the Calypso

band floating on the pool. Oh, yeah. I got it all. The rain falling from the ceiling. They got the Calypso band floating on the pool. Oh, yeah. They got it all. The rain thing is really cool. We should tell them. What's the name of the hotel that that is in? Fairmont. Okay, the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

They took the old pool area. They put a damn boat in it with a drum set and amps. And so bands play in the pool, and all the dining setup is around the pool. And there's a dance floor and a bar that serves tiki drinks. Folks, you got to check it out. Yeah.

And it rains every once in a while, just in the pool, just in the pool. Like it'll, they'll do a little go there, order yourself a Singapore sling. They got drinks that they serve in pineapples. They got fun, uh, Polynesian

appetizers, but with all the fun stuff going on, you know, it's what I associate that place with, you know, if you're like, if you're at some, let's say you're like at on some street and you're listening to a certain song or a podcast or something, and then, and then you can, you like associate it with that place. The Tonga Room is one of my favorite places on earth. And I've had so much fun there. But the last time that we, or two times ago, we were there one time and we Googled James Gandolfini's age. I was talking to Mitch about Sopranos and we were like, how old was James Gandolfini when he filmed? Started Sopranos.

When he shot the pilot. And we were 36. My guess was James Gandolfini when he filmed? Started Sopranos. When he shot the pilot and we were 36. My guess is he would be 55 years old. Hey, that's good, Mike. You've been working on that. It improved since the last time I heard the impression. You don't have to try so hard. That's what my... Yeah, you got yourself too worked up before.

Yeah, yeah. So, sorry, Tim. Well, just in that moment i think i was 35 mitch was 36 and then we googled it and we're like hoping that he was in his 40s and he was 36 and we were like fuck wow are you kidding me and yeah i shot that i shot that show when i was a young man that was you mean um that's pretty good it's just funny because you have a lot of those you know when you're young uh you you have that thing of like i can't believe i'm older than this person and that person but they're young cool people

it's very funny to get to the age where i'm like i'm i'm i'm older than that fat sack of shit yeah well how old is uh homer simpson canonically he's like 35 or something i think so yeah maybe even younger but tony i mean Soprano is the greatest character ever and is expertly played. And then when I rewatched the pilot, I did think he looked kind of young. If you're balding, it throws off the age range. You can't really tell, you know?

Have you finished yet, Jeff? No, I've slowed down since. Have you paused it? No, no, I'm still mid-season two. But when I started, I torched through the first season in like a week. I can't get enough of these guys. Was that an audio drop that you... Was that a recording from the show just now?

What about my prescriptions? That's the same line you brought up last time. Yeah, that keeps coming up. It's because you haven't seen the show, but you saw one line. I've seen some of the show. When people do impressions, they will have a couple keywords or a phrase that

they use to like, oh, that, because it hits all the right beats of, it has all the little eccentricities that get them into the character. Yours is the prescriptions line. Holy smokes, we've been doing this episode

a long time. Yeah, it's a long evening. Yo! Well, what's your final thoughts on the Tony Soprano? You're a little off track here. I think it could use a little more work.

Calm. Calm. Carmen. Carmella was her name, right? Yeah, Carmella. I know her as Nurse Jackie and that's the only character I care about well it's definitely

one of the best huh I think it's you know we tried to we tried to set up like what's the hall of fame around here and we didn't really come up with something did we I thought no you did have one it was like Stone Cold Steve Austin or something oh yeah it was the Stone Cold Steve Austin or something. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

It was a Stone Cold Classic. Sloppy Boys Stone Cold Classic. You're going to put the... Uh-huh. You think this is as good as... We're doing two Stone Cold... Two Stone Cold Classics in a row? Well, it's just now it's like now we know what Stone Cold Classic is.

Now everything's going to be Stone Cold Classic. Every week. Yep. Another Stone Cold Classic. Next week, we'll do a shitty one and we going to be Stone Cold Classic. Every week. Yep. Another Stone Cold Classic. Next week, we'll do a shitty one and we won't be Stone Cold. No, but we invented that. That ranking was for the Margarita, which is an all-time classic. You're telling me you're putting the Singapore Sling up with a Margo?

Right now, I am. I think he's drunk and I think he's talking like a fool. I think the Singapore Sling is talking and he's saying yeah put me on the list hey mention me to your friends you know I think a lot of these drinks are going to be doing that and don't forget the prescriptions

yeah yeah you know I got a couple I got a six pack of Bud Light over here I think we should put on that list too I'm not drinking anything unless it is first put on the list too. I'm not drinking anything unless it is first put on the Stone Cold Classic list. That's our show.

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and had ourselves a blast. A time. Thanks for listening, folks. See you next week. See you in Singapore. Where's Anthony? Hey, do people like when you do this sound with your straw? Well, if I speak for the people, then yes.

If there are any Foley artists listening that might need some walrus sounds, you can use this for your movie. Yeah, and if you're also interested in some walrus body types, I'm not going to finish that thought. We should have ended this a while ago. Walrus body types, Mike. Who would be looking for that? It's the Singapore sling talking.

I don't mean that. Tim, you look better than I've ever seen you before. Oh, my God. Thank you so much. All right, folks. Whoa. See you, folks. You've had enough.

We've had enough. We've had enough of ourselves. We're cutting you off. Goodbye. Give it up for your boys. Give it up for your boys. We've had enough of ourselves. We're cutting you off. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.