The Sloppy Boys - 84. Dirty Shirley

Episode Date: May 27, 2022

The guys spike a classic kiddy mocktail.DIRTY SHIRLEY RECIPE2oz/6ml Vodka1oz/30ml Grenadine8oz/240ml Lemon-lime SodaFill a highball glass with ice. Add the vodka and grenadine to the glass. Top with soda and garnish with maraschino cherry.Recipe via The New York Times 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. Yo-ho, we're getting close to Talk Like a Pirate Day. And Tim Kalpakis. What is up? Pirate stylies is up pirate stylies pirate stylies unfortunately anticipating pirate stylies september i think it's september 19th i think that's what it was i don't want to look it up again but september 19th because i think i said that my mom's birthday is the next day um yeah so everyone who's listening we've decided

we're gonna do talk like a pirate day and we'll say r maybe and all kinds of funny stuff yeah and you can say it too if you're listening you can say r maybe or you could say shiver me tempers and we'll do a whole 2007 thing it It was a good time for that. It's fun to be funny. It's fun and funky. We should try it on the show sometime. Oh, that's what we'll be doing September 19th. No, I'm being funny.

Oh. Never mind. Maybe we'll find our funny with Pirate Day talk. Yes, yes. Find your funny. Listen to the Sloppy Boys. Yes, yes. Find your funny. Listen to the sloppy boys. That's good. How do you funny?

Put a little funny in your face. Hey, speaking of fun and funny. Oh, geez. Get your funny back. That sounds perverse. I want my funny back. Guys, we just got back from tour. We banked a couple episodes before he left so it was seamless

to the listener but we're back yeah jokes on you tricked you fucking rocked the east coast the great atlantic blowout tour amazing huh smashing success us and dear blanca and then a few towns we had some uh some local support as i learned that's the term uh people opening up we had so much you know speaking i'm in my bvds i've had some local support that's good yeah clenching the nuts the family rules nasty uh we had a good time love seeing everybody thanks for everyone who came out. My voice is a little weakened from all the screaming. No, no. I am really over the moon proud of the two of you guys for singing and belting and not

going half speed either. We did a good job. We had a friend of ours, Caroline Anderson, from, you probably know her from stuff. I do, yeah. Go on. I don't know. She been on the comedy bang bang before uh but she had she was a an opera singer in college yes and we did a zoom she sings back up on the monster fuck yeah and so she taught us how to like uh loosen up our get our warm up our

vocals yes we were doing some 7-eleven breathing breathing. 7-Eleven breathing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if anyone was in the crowd before we went on, you heard in the background, Zia! You probably, that's what was going on. I did that in front of the other guys, Dear Blanca. I didn't think

anyone could hear me and they were looking at me. I was like, sorry. Sorry. Yeah, it's very, very musical theater. But we did it. 11 shows in 11 days and we didn't lose our voices and we screamed our heads off. Damn. Now, I don't want to talk about this too much because we talked about it already. We'd recap the whole damn tour on the blowout. Right, right, right.

Yes, folks, you got to subscribe to our Patreon because this week's episode is a tour recap where we go city by city and wax poetic about all the shenanigans we got into. It was fun as fuck, truly.

Yeah, it was great. It was behind the scenes peak. There were times during the whole tour where I was like, I could do this. I could do this for a living. I could just do this forever.

Really? You would be a rock star for a living? No but yeah but like the Do it in a van version You know I was like I get This agrees with me I could do this And then there were other days where I said I want to go to my bed

I could do the private jet version Yeah I would love to stay in Penthouse suites and ride in private jet PJs. Yeah. Yeah. I was seeing some chatter on the Discord, also available to Patreon subscribers, about some beloved Patrons talking to people who didn't know what they were getting when they bought a ticket. They thought they were maybe even getting the pod.

I can't imagine. I can't imagine. Live pods suck. All we talk about is how we're musicians. Yeah. And you should come see us rock the house. And we're not going to screw you over with a live pod. You're getting this podcast right now for free, folks.

Why would you want to pay $60 and watch us do it? We ain't much to look at. And live podcasts, once they hit the podcast, suck. Suck. Do they not? I hate hearing Mark Maron talk to somebody at a stupid... It ruins the tempo of the conversation. Well, I don't mind it, and I assume one day we'll do it and make a ton of money.

Not me. Over my dead body. The best pods and our best friends, even. I'm not listening to a live pod episode skip i won't it's a skip skip it skippable content skip it man skippable content we should uh that could be a good patreon show that we put up yeah let's get into some bip hit it oh shit hey you guys want to hear me play a quick

didge you guys want to hear me play some funky guitar do you guys want to hear me do my least favorite lyrics from this album? Yeah, do it. Use the force.

Use the force. Do you like use the force? No, I don't like use the force. Do you get the reference? It's both news. You funk it out. to get the reference. It's Booze News, you funk-a-dark. Whoa. Cool.

Ooh. Funk News theme by Harg Labargue. And if you have a Booze News theme, email it to thesloppyboyspodcast at gmail.com. Okay. Harg Labargue. Another crown jewel of the tour, meeting Harg Labargue at gmail.com. Okay. Harglobarg. Harglobarg. Another crown jewel of the tour. Meeting Harglobarg at IRL.

He was IRL and he had some gifts for us. That was great. He came to Boston. And that theme, that was another Patreon thing. This was a mashup of when we listened to Jamiroquai on our Patreon show, right? Did we all play stuff that episode? Yeah. I don't remember playing. Yeah. Well, because Didgeridoo is on the Jamiroquai on our Patreon show, right? Did we all play stuff that episode? Yeah, I don't remember playing. Yeah.

Well, because Didgeridoo is on the Jamiroquai album, and I have one, so I, yeah, I did whip it out. I probably played guitar. I can't believe we all, like, started with what we were doing. We're going, do you want to hear me blank? I think that we were drunk is probably. Yeah, and we're good at playing game okay so booze news right we're we're getting into the the drink of the day is a very special buzzy

one today especially because i had just posed the question last week on the pod it's time to start making our predictions and keeping our peepers out for what the the drink of the summer is going to be um but speaking of harglebarg who came to our show in boston i had an eye-opening experience with a certain spirit that night in boston in the back room spirit of faces brewing company yes in malden massachusetts yes yes do you guys remember what we had an icy cold shot of? Yes. Oh, yes. Tell them. Hit them with it.

McGillicuddy. It was none other than Dr. McGillicuddy's menthol mint. Yes, that was undetectable. Alcohol was undetectable in that. And here's the thing. We've heard of this. We talked about it on the podcast because Fireball originated in the 80s when Seagram's released this line of schnapps, Dr. McGillicuddy's,

and they were kind of like fake medicinal. And their cinnamon flavor then spun off into Fireball and the company got sold and then they pushed that ahead. But I had never encountered any of the other mcgillicuddy's schnapps's nor had there's like 10 flavors yeah and um the uh the manager at that brewery bob who does great work over there he poured us some shots he's like you guys are gonna like this because they ran out of fireball we drank all their fireball probably but um i felt like here was the thing.

They were keeping it in the fridge. It was ice cold. Menthol mint was very pleasant. You know, a lot of time you're out at a bar and everybody's breath stinks and they're talking to your face and it sucks. Sure. Here's a minty, syrupy shot.

Oh, yeah. Slides right down the throat. Very nice. And makes you feel refreshed. Honestly, I was expecting it to have like a sicky, sweet, burny, heartburn, aftertaste something. Never showed up. It was mellow. Well, it's funny with menthol, too, because I've only associated that word with cigarettes.

So... What about gum? Menthol gum? Oh, like... Yeah, I guess you're right. They don't call it menthol gum. Nicotine gum. Well, but menthol's the ingredient.

I was kind of like, ooh, menthol, I don't know about this. And I took it and I said, well, that was very pleasant. Sure. And very nice to drink. And I think that would be... Is that what you're getting towards, Tim? That this might be an ingredient for a drink of the summer? Or it doesn't have to be that brand, but I was thinking general.

We've used creme de menthe in cocktails before. And when we had the- But that's got too much creme. That's too much creme. What? Three of our show, episode three of this podcast, we did the mint julep. And we all had sort of remarked on, we originally thought a mint julep yeah and we all had sort of remarked on we originally thought a mint julep was going to be like a sweet green cocktail and it turns out to be like just a

strong bourbon drink yeah um i was expecting like a grasshopper right exactly but but i do think maybe something in in the in the mint schnapps variety that's ice cold slop heads there could be something there i I'm just saying it's nice. I'll tell you why, because I think this summer you're going to see a lot of smooching at the bar. Yes, it's the summer of smooch. You do. Everyone's kiss crazy. Everyone's kiss crazy

and you'd want that McGillicuddy to just get you fresh and ready for the smooch. Yeah, give me a shot of McGillicuddy. I've got to straighten myself up here Sir, nobody wants to talk to you Oh, I love you I love you for being honest with me

I love you for that It is like mouthwash you can drink though, huh? It's like Listerine you can swallow Beautiful Now what would pair with that alcohol? I'm trying to figure out What type of minty, fruity thing you could do. Is there such a thing?

Well, I think that if you got your – that is kind of sweet, so that base is covered. So I would just say that and gin or that and vodka, you know, or that and bourbon. I don't know. So two liquors. But here's the thing. My question for you guys. You know how sometimes a strong flavor, you don't necessarily want like 10 ounces of it. It kind of works best as two ounces.

Boom, done. Right. Do you want to hang out with that flavor for a whole drink? Well, if it was a nice big highball, let's say you put a shot of mint schnapps, a shot of gin, and then you glug, glug, glug with a lot of club soda now you're chugging you're out at the beach at night you're in montauk yeah just pounding them roll around on the beach beer cans everywhere seeing in your hair and your eyes well i don't know if that you you know, is there something there?

There is, there is. Listen to this. Yeah? I'm going to suggest this. McGillicuddy Collins. It's a fun thing to say. Yeah, that's really good. It's a Tom Collins with a maybe half shot of McGillicuddy mixed in there

or just a floater. I love that, Mike. I think a floater is a really good idea. A mint floater on top of other things. McGillicuddy Collins. Oh, that sounds fun to say. I might say that at the next bar I go to. Give me a McGillicuddy Collins. What are you talking about? I forgot.

I forgot how to make it. You gotta listen to episode 84, man. Is your cell phone close by? I want to find that episode and hear what we were talking about. I know. i lost my phone um when we played in columbia south carolina there we had a special a couple of special cocktails that night for the sloppy boys we had a copy cordial and for dear blanca they had come up with the lavender collins and it was delicious they boiled down some lavender oh yeah petals with uh sugar and a little bit of lemon juice and gin and it was delicious they boiled down some lavender oh yeah petals with uh sugar and a little

bit of lemon juice and gin and it was utterly divine it was very that was so fun because that that first show was like a very diy show at um colatown bike collective and you know we had to like round up some gear and we were putting together the um the show stage and then we we stopped back at cam's house cam from dear Dear Blanca, who we were crashing with, and he was boiling up the lavender. It's a stunk of lavender, his entire home. He was making the lavender simple syrup

in the kitchen just batch after batch. Very DIY. I loved it. Really got results. Loved that drink. It was great. Drinks are good. And this is the pod for it.

Was that a silver bullet, Jay? Yeah, I'm tapping the Rockies over here. That's nice. Little Bob Seger style. Are the mountains blue? They used to be. Wait, does Bob Seger sing Tap the Rockies? No, but it's Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

Oh, he sings like a rock. Like a rock. He could say like the Rockies. Like a Rockies. Hey, rock. He could say like the Rockies. Like a Rockies. Like a drink from the Rockies. I bet you they're trying to nudge as close as they can legally to Seeger. Maybe. Is that it for Booze News?

Wrap it up. Doctor, doctor, give me the news. I got a bad case of Doctor Strange. Oh, that's good that is the funniest thing i've seen on the internet i saw dr strange yesterday the new yeah that's why i pulled it up i said any excuse to play this lights camber jackson clip i'll tell you about the new dr strange movie i did not understand one thing that was going on in it. But you know, it's exciting to see all the people

zipping around. I don't know. It's just so like so many long fighting. The end is so long with fighting. Yeah, and this is the first one in a while that's like well i hope you saw wandavision and spider-man 3 like well can i just see a fucking movie once in a while yeah i didn't see any

wandavision but you know you gotta give it up to everyone who worked their butts off at the end of the movie there's a big long credit sequence that shows you everyone who worked on the stunts and graphics and boy uh you gotta give it up for them. Thank you for doing that. That's so cool that they do that in the new Doctor Strange movie. Yeah, they do it in Doctor Strange. They do it in a lot of movies. A lot of the Marvel movies have the credits at the end. Yeah.

A lot of people mention that Marvel movies have the post-credits scene, but not a lot of people are pointing out that they just have the credits. The credits too. The pre-post-credits scene credits. Yeah. That was called post-credit crawl. With no reveals, I will say the post-credits scene was cute and interesting

and ultimately a disappointment. Huh. So you watched the movie, you didn't understand what was going on, but then the post-credits scene managed to disappoint you. No, and here's the thing. I like Doctor Strange. I like this whole thing. I like him.

I think he's one of my faves. I find him to be a little bit odd. Peculiar. Yeah, Professor Peculiar. You know, they should make a Nurse Normie. That's good. Balance them out. And it's one of these things, too. I'll watch the movie, and I don't know.

I'm not going to reveal who it is, but a character comes up who's an existing character that I know of. Like, it's not like a... I feel like in the Marvelverse now, they're pulling, like, characters out that are deep into the series of comic books that I don't know. But they brought a guy out who I knew, and he was acted by a guy I knew.

And I don't know if that's, like, he's been in the movies before, if it's been announced that he's going to be in the movies, or if this is, like, a big reveal. Nobody in my theater, like theater cheered or anything. Huh. Too bad. Nobody was really pumped up. I would have cheered. Had I been there.

Maybe. I'd cheer. Anytime someone new came on screen, I'd cheer. What do you guys think if the three of us got an argument about whether or not MCU is good cinema? If we argued about it yeah like if one of us was like it's baby brain stuff and then another one was like actually you know it's like if you get really into it it's kind of a modern uh mythology and then another one of us could be like no you just turn your brain off and it's popcorn fun you're talking about getting

into some uncharted territory right i i think we should do that as a blowout we are yeah the blowout sloppy boys argue about the mcu great i don't know which opinion i have but each make up a fake argument i'll whatever argument is mine i'll double down on it real hard my argument is i like iron man and i like uh dr strange and spider-man i like him too and I like Doctor Strange and Spider-Man. I like him too. And, and, ooh, I'm saving this for the blowout, but I like Thanos.

I liked Thanos. I liked him. Okay, okay. Mike, he killed half of all the living things on Earth and you like the man? I found that exciting. Ah, yes. Well, conflict can be engaging wouldn't you wouldn't be nice to have one of those big gloves too

sure i'm waiting for anyone to pull us away from this topic okay oh wait oh hey what if what if we shot a sketch about like what happens when thanos jerks off. Does he use the glove? One of his balls disappears. Oh no! Half the life! Half of my balls have disappeared. Half of my sperms! Half of my entire number of testes gone!

Yep, Thanos, you got a real 1 over 2 happening there. Yep. Careful what you wish for thanos one ball okay who's got the drink of the day timmy oh it's time to get dirty you ready for it yeah we well it's everywhere folks it's on the tip of everyone's tongue. The New York Times has posed the question, is this the drink of the summer?

Oh! The Dirty Shirley you've had? Have not had. I've had the virgin equivalent. You've heard. I've heard. But have you heard of Dirty Shirley before this article?

No. No, not before the articleirty Shirley before this article? No. No, not before the article. It took an article for me to learn something. How interesting is that? Maybe media can be so... Yes, well, anyway, I've heard... Let me tell you about my little journey about this drink. I kind of, for a moment, back in January,

I thought I came up with this drink and I thought I was being funny because this dry January, everybody knows a lot of the boozers are not users during January. It's after the holidays, you don't drink but especially this year, January 2022, I think we will look back at

the most epic of dry jams because it was kind of the COVID boozy mega booze fest leading to a boozy winter post-vax winter right omicron winter and then and then this january there was like a mega boom we talked about it on on the show when we did oduels we talked about how there's like actual like liquor stores in la that don't have liquor that are just mocktails and uh the low alcohol no alcohol what is it the sober curious wave exactly it was kind of this it was seed lip season you might say um and i know my instagram feed instagram

was trying to tell me to stop drinking because they were really showing me a lot of like. You said, no deal. I said, I'm getting off this app. This app is toxic. But anyway, so when we did our O'Doul's episode, we were talking about maybe we'll do some other mocktails. And we said, what's the most famous mocktail? And it's not one that you associate with like trying to cut down on drinking, but more of a kid trying to pretend that they're drinking is the Shirley Temple. And you both had that, correct?

Oh, yeah. And the male version of that is called the Roy Rogers. Yes. Well, if you need to genderize it, Michael. No, I know. I know. I didn't know how to say that without sounding un-woke. The Roy Rogers is Coke.

Yeah, Coke and grenadine. But it's funny because a lot of kids are not allowed to have caffeine. So I don't know. But I remember my family would go to the ground round in the Hudson Valley Mall. And that was a great place. There was a basket of popcorn on the table. There was like Three Stooges movies playing on a big screen balloon man would walk around and uh he'd make balloons and he'd point at my mom and say hey is this your sister i'm like that's my fucking mom man take that back i remember my sister getting shirley temples and i

got roy rogers's shirley temple a lot of times they'll make it with ginger ale but typically it would be seven upper sprite and a little splash of grenadine to make it pink but um so the shirley temple was invented in the 30s shirley herself didn't like it and didn't drink it she thought it was too sweet but um it's believed to be in uh invented at uh chasen's which was this old restaurant i heard about it because it's mentioned in less than zero because brett easton ellis used to go there for christmas dinner when he was a kid but it's like it's like it was a big old restaurant in beverly hills that's now the bristol farms on beverly and oh yeah heini is that a chain bristol farms it's yeah it's a fancy chain with very few uh locations but yeah it's like it's like a expensive west coast right yeah gotcha kind of boutique um it was maybe invented there surely temple said she thinks that it could have also

maybe been invented at the brown derby oh one of which, who knows, maybe they're talking about the Los Feliz one, where the Cobb salad was invented, which is now the fucking mess hall right near where the Swabby Boys live, where we first had our penicillins. Hey, and don't forget Chase Bank. Yeah, Chase Bank.

And don't forget the Big Bad Voodoo Daddies. Wait, what's the band in Swingers that played there? Yeah, I think it's Big Bad Voodoo Daddies. Wait, what's the band in Swingers that played there? Yeah, I think it's Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Or was it the Squirrel Nut Zippers? Nah.

I think it's BVD. Big Bad. I think it's BVT. Okay, still, some people also credit another place that we know in Waikiki the fucking royal hawaiian where really i stayed on my honeymoon but then the sloppy boys went there for our fucking blue hawaiian wise that's right yeah uh so it's from one of those places anyway while i was reading up on the shirley temple i got my own funny little idea in january wouldn't it be funny if you put booze in a shirley temple because you're kind of undoing the very purpose of the drink. And then I

Googled it to make sure no one had beat me to this idea. Little do I know. It exists. It's called the Dirty Shirley Vodka Grenadine Sprite. It already exists. Didn't think about it for a few months. Then very recently, my

phone starts blowing up um new york times says is the dirty shirley the drink of the summer thank you all the slob heads that tagged us in this i'm talking a lot of people sent this my way very appreciated and um turns out folks people in new york have been ordering uh this bright pink funny drink um like at cool bars cool young people ordering this drink and it's kind of um there's a viral tiktok video of a bartender making one and this new york times article it lists off all the bars in manhattan that are doing it but then it's it also it kind of takes the stance the explanation they're saying that during the pandemic a lot of people in their 20s went home right they moved to the suburbs moved back in with their parents because they were scared of the city and now

they're coming back and they've got this sort of like there's a little touch of ironic love of the suburbs coming back so there's like a little trend i talked about this a little bit with like the the long island iced tea or the midori like kind of ordering dumb drinks a little bit on purpose and and you know you're being funny and i think there's also a food trend of like almost like a craving for like olive garden style bad italian food but like in brooklyn or whatever um interesting that's what this new york times article says is that it's like the the the there's a newfound love of the suburbs in the city because people were just there i don't really know if it's like that because they're just trying to

write a new york times article i think it's more i i think it's like that because they're just trying to write a New York Times article. I think it's more. I think it's more what I what my thing was, was a blowback to the non-alcoholic. The what did you call it, Jeff? The curious, sober, curious. Also, is it New York Times or New York Magazine? New York Times. OK, yeah.

They got to draw some greater cultural conclusions just write the fucking thing just give us the ingredient the food blog of New York mag is Grubhub Grub Street and Grub Street is the one who recently pointed out that a lot of young people in Manhattan are ordering tons of martinis

and I think and they were saying that that was a backlash to the sober curious movement it's like people were having the the kind of light aperitifs or bitters and soda in the winter and now they're ready to party and they're just pounding martinis um but uh yeah i think it's that i think it's just like you're gonna go the i think it's like you're saying F you to the mocktail. It's a big middle finger to old Shirley. Perfect. And you're taking your sweet drink and you're boozing it up.

And here's what's in the fucker. Okay? Yeah. Two ounces of vodka. One ounce of grenadine. That's a lot of grenadine. And I'll tell you what. Use that electric red roses.

Don't go fancy on this one because it's a Shirley of grenadine and i'll tell you what use that electric red roses don't go fancy on this one because it's a shirley temple okay um eight ounces of lemon lime soda such as sprite or seven up jeff famously dislikes sprite i think i'm gonna like this one just fine do you get sprite or seven up sprite very nice what i'm ready ready to taste the rainbow or whatever you do with the Sprite. It's a... What is this? You should make a Skittle drink, speaking of taste of rainbow. What is the Sprite?

Obeying my thirst. That's what I'm doing. Sprite is right. I got a can of both Sprite and 7-Up. I might do a little tasty-tasty. Ooh. I'll tell you what. If we're going to talk...

Not alts. Versions. Ooh. I got some... The only vodka I have i think is gonna suit me just right absolute citrone going in this way oh yep um that's good jay because i hear a lot of the in the same way that people have been sort of turning the long island into a craft cocktail a lot of places that are making a fancier version of the Dirty Shirley are putting a little splash of lime or citrus in there. So that could be good for you.

Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of pictures got limes sitting on that lip. But the traditional garnish, the New York Times tells us right here, one maraschino cherry. Well, of course. And I feel like this ought not be a Luxardo, right? This should be a little red boy. Yeah, I got a little red boy from you, Tim. The filthy. My filthies. I gotta go look at

for my... Guys, remember, my house was fumigated while I was gone. I came back all my food was double bagged on the floor because the fumigators didn't want to poison me. Still? They emptied out my fridge. They emptied out my... They took all my booze. They confiscated it.

Yeah, I bet they did. What? Goldmine, they thought, coming into your place. That's like a lot of money. You're going to get back? Yeah, I'm a pretty wealthy guy. It's fine. But here's the message, guys.

It's just a hassle. Fill a highball glass with ice. Add vodka and grenadine to the glass. Top with soda. Garnish with maraschino cherry. Yes, great. Can't wait to do it. Fuck,, garnished with maraschino cherry. Yes, great. Can't wait to do it. Fuck, I don't have maraschino cherry.

Do you have any cherries, Mike? I have a Cherry Poppin' Daddy CD that I'll play. Just shave a little in there. While I'm making it, I'll play that. That sounds great, Tim. I can't wait to make it up and drink it down. One thing, I'm going to use a highball glass. It looks like that's quite common. I feel like I've also

seen these in like, more like a soda glass. It's not quite a juice glass, not as low as a lowball, but it's not as high as a highball, like a juice glass. Ooh, I know exactly what I'm going to use. Hmm. Can't wait to see it, Mike. Well, shall we?

Now wait, you just pour this into a glass with ice and stir it top with soda garnish with sheenote it doesn't even say to stir it but go ahead and stir it

perfect lightly hey you know you might get that gradient you know you can play with that gradient anyway Mike

Mike are you gonna play with the gradient Mike you're gonna play with the gradient I'll play with the gradient if you want me to. Good, good, good. We do.

All right, folks. We'll see you back here right after the ads. Later. Pew. Now we're back with Dirty Shirley's. Woo! Let's see them. I'm using one of those glasses there that looks like a can.

I love it. I love it. It's got like a beer lip indentation. And yet I added a straw, so I'm not using it. Ooh, a metal straw. Metal straw. Reusable, recyclable. Jeffy, is that a pomegranate glass?

It's a palm tea glass, yes. It's a good Collins glass, and I got a glass straw. Oh. And a nice big fat cherry right up top. Look at that fucker, huh? Whew. I had two bloopers. One, didn't give my ice enough time to freeze today uh and i got

little aquariums going on icy boxes of water cold water boxes then i was worried i didn't even have enough cold water boxes but then when i looked at this recipe again eight ounces of sprite are you fucking kidding me that's a lot of sprite in here so look how little ice i even ended up using in here it's kind of just a big cup of soda it's weird interesting i could only even really fit like seven ounces in here i didn't uh you know when it says something like top eight ounces is this is like when you do the um cuba libre or something yeah i just kind of go up until I'm at where I want to drink. Right. IBA would normally say, like, Sprite to top,

and then in the method they say top up. This one it said in the recipe listed eight ounces, and then it just said top with soda. I don't think you have to use all eight. But I like a real measurement because I want to taste the official thing. Like, to top leaves too much room for error on me to use a weird glass and put

in too much there's no chance i went over eight no chance but i mean i bet you i could make a double of this and would like it more um you know i took a little sip of that rose's grenadine and i love that shit and i tested my uh my taste tested seven upUp and Sprite back to back. You won't believe which one I liked more. 7-Up? 7-Up. Wow. Let's do our sips and I've got something to tell you about Sprite and 7-Up.

Let's do our sips. Bottoms up, of course. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. oh yeah oh yeah I've been drinking these all summer my man oh yeah this is going to piss off so many of the actual like cocktail people that listen to this show are going to hate us

yeah sure this fucking candy soda pink it's really candy I'm taking the straw out and just drinking it sipping it This fucking candy soda pink. It's really candy. I'm taking the straw out and just drinking it, sipping it. It's good on first sip. I bet you I'll be sick of it as we go. Yeah, it's pretty.

Oswego? It's candy. You're taking a sugary soda and adding Rose's Grenadine sugar to it right it's like maybe with a um like a limonada or like a more of a tart but not sweet thing but sweet on sweet this is definitely the word cloying comes to mind yeah i wish i did it i don't want to be a cloy boy i wish i did a double in the same glass four ounces which is a lot i guess of vodka four ounces of vodka and, which is a lot, I guess, of vodka. Yeah, four ounces of vodka. This is a pretty strong drink.

Two ounces of vodka? But that's like a normal cocktail at a bar, right? Yeah, I guess then there's nothing else really alcoholic in it. All right, I rescind. I guess, I don't know. Maybe you don't need to make a double, but too sweet, knock it down. I would say dash. Dash or grenadine?

Yeah, definitely a little dash rend dash of grenadine um yeah definitely a little dash rendar of uh grenadine but or maybe make this in a smaller glass so you don't need as much soda or pack it with ice like i would have done but to this drink's credit and to the new york times's credit i am getting like the nostalgia is coming through right drinking? Drinking that roses, even with the vodka in there. I taste like I'm at the ground round in 1989. Oh, sure. Yeah. But now you're drinking what daddy drank.

Yeah. A little bit of daddy's old cough syrup. Now, here's what I was going to say. Go ahead, Jeff. You go ahead. This would be good with a lime. I'm craving a lime now i need something to knock this sweet down yeah a little sour would help this out huh yep knocking in the shape little

liverod but you don't want to make it brutal on a serious note though folks yes it's missing the soda seven up is uh good but it's not sour enough to really balance out this cocktail. But you know what is good is like the VSS Vodka Soda Splash or the Rosemary Kennedy cocktail that's like a Cape Codder with a little squeeze of lime. That's good. Topped with soda. Cape Codder was just cranberry and vodka, right? And soda. For the bubbles. No? Or was it just vodka, cran vodka, right? And soda. For the bubbles.

No? Or was it just vodka, cranberry, lime? Now I've forgotten. We'll have to go back and listen to that episode. That'll be fun. The whole thing. Here's what I was going to say about Sprite and 7-Up. While we were on the road this past couple to 10 days, 12 days,

we went to a restaurant. I will not name the restaurant because I also kind of forget where it was. But they do the thing, I said, give me a Sprite. They said, oh, is Sierra Mist okay? Yeah, Sierra Mist is okay, but that's not Sprite or 7-Up. It's like third tier, okay. It's got its own weird taste, I think. And if anyone wants to say that Sprite and 7-Up are the same as Sierra Mist, they're not.

And I don't know what family 7-Up is in, because Sierra Mist is in the Pepsi family. Sprite is in the Coca-Cola family. 7-Up kind of does its own thing. It's a little, you got the dot there. He's pretty cool. Well, it's definitely one of the two companies. You think?

Yeah, I think. I don't know. Maybe it's RC Cola. I think that. If you're so confident, I'm starting to lean your way. You didn't want to name the restaurant,

but could I just ask, is it sort of like an owl-themed boob restaurant? Hey, watch yourself. No, it was not. An owl themed boob restaurant. I'm just asking. And it wasn't a

you know, crispy something you put cheese on top of a container wooden container area. Cracker Barrel? Hey, would you look at this, Mike? I'm looking up the Wikipedia.

7-Up competes primarily against the Coca-Cola company's Sprite and PepsiCo's Sierra Mist. The rights to the brand are held by Keurig Dr. Pepper in the United States. Whoa! Right, Dr. Pepper and Sprite, they do seem like their own weird thing they're doing something weird i didn't didn't sierra mist come out in like 2002 did pepsi just not have one for that i bet you i bet you they snarfed it up wow um wow that's crazy that is crazy seven up make seven up yours isn't that what it is? Up yours. That's what it was.

Hey, you know what was good is when I was down south. Yeah. Our good friend Brett Nash of, I mean, come on. You know him from Dear Blanca. You know him from Band of Horses. You know him from the Comfort Monk podcast. You know him from lending us a minivan. You know him from the Comfort Monk podcast. You know him from lending us a minivan on the tour.

Yeah, town and country. Chrysler. Red. Cherry red. He made me his Calpe Cordial Southern styleys with Cheerwine. You guys ever had Cheerwine?

Yeah, I've had Cheerwine and that sounds about right. It was very good. And that's a good mixer in general. I also was thinking like maybe a little bourbon and Cheerwine would be good. Cheerwine, I haven't had it in forever,

but it reminds me of this grenadine where it's like syrup. Yep. Syrup cola. And when the bubbles are rising to the top, they really have to fight through that syrup to get to the top to pop. The slow rising bubbles. Hey, I'm already turning the corner on this. This is a little too sweet.

Too much for me. Yeah, it's funny because maybe it would have had a chance to get meltier in my cubes had I had more cubes. I went big time on the cubes. I usually am like, oh, three cubes will do me. But I went probably nine cubes. What would Jack Schramm say? Yeah, you got to do nine. Nine minimum. Jack Schramm say? Yeah, you got to do nine. Nine minimum.

Jack Schramm would not be happy. Because I also put my Svetka vodka, I had that, in the freezer today. Oh, good. That's good for a Russian root, too, I've heard. Yeah, it could be used for a Russian root. I guess that's your second, that's the second optional thing. But Schrammer told me, we were drinking with him once And he said I said oh I put the things in the freezer He's like why would you do that

It changes the taste of Of some of them I said Of what of vodkas I don't know I think that's what he I was a little A couple martinis deep at this point I put my I bought a big old bottle of absolute citron

And that thing's sitting pretty in the freezer Can I tell you guys why I don't put my spirits in the freezer i wish you would that tomahawk steak chop taking up too much space yeah well actually when i got fumigated i had to throw out everything but my jenny's and my tomahawk ribeye um hence why i had no cubes today and i had to rush to try to freeze them here's the thing i want my liquor to be room temp so that when i put it in my shaker with cubes it's melting those cubes and then dead diluting the drink a little bit if you put frozen ice cold vodka over cubes and then you shake it up you're just like clanging and banging the cubes around they don't melt it fucking sucks yeah but the goal is to get a cold cold drink cold speaking of like uh

you know what that reminds me something that would make frosty blush mike um yeah no i'm with mike something that would make frosty blush yeah okay i i apologize you're right here so you're we're all three on board okay but was reminded, the idea of shaking cubes but them not melting at all or not doing anything reminds me of, I remember one time years and years ago, up in the valley, we were barbecuing at Harris Whittle's house, and I came up with this idea. I was going to grill bananas for you guys. Do you remember this?

I said, imagine that. Imagine a barbecued banana. That's a great idea. And I hold true it's a great idea. And I hold true. It's a great idea because I've had them, you know, flambéed and whatnot. Deep fried. They're always good. But what happens at every barbecue?

You run out of propane. When did I run out of propane? Before I was finished grilling the bananas. So I took them off and I served them. And we were trying to eat these bananas and they were hot but not cooked they were you know let's say a banana cooks at at like 145 degrees they were probably 144 degrees so it was the taste of a raw banana but it was hot and it was hot enough to like you know burn your mouth it was like hot but it was a hot raw banana but it it was hot, and it was hot enough to burn your mouth. It was hot, but it was

a hot, raw banana. But it still had the snap to it, the way a banana snaps. Yes, and just think of how much the taste of a banana changes from a raw banana to a cooked banana. It's a whole different food. It's like raw meat, cooked meat. How are you cooking it? Are you cooking it in the

peel? No, I laid them out on the grill like hot dogs. Laid bare. You know what's good? Maybe this is flambé, but you split a banana in half down a long way so it's got an edge to it. And then you put it in a frying pan with sugar and butter. And it makes kind of a candy side to it. Absolutely.

My favorite dessert is Bananas Foster. Wait, is that flambe, though, what I just mentioned? Well, Bananas Foster is like a flambe dish. But yeah, anytime you're – when you're cooking in a pan – flambe is like when you – the flame, right? So rum in the fire, you tilt the pan, the flame goes up. Rum in the fire. You tilt the pan.

The flame goes up. Or what about the lighter thing where the blue flame comes in and... Is that a flambe? That's like a brulee. Damn. That's a torch-o. We got to go to the Dal Ray Steakhouse in Pico Rivera. The steakhouse I went to on my birthday one time. I'm there, dude.

It's all carts. You say, can I have a Caesar salad? They're like, yeah, let me wheel over the salad cart. You say, can I have a peach flambe? Yeah, let me roll over the peach cart. It was so fun. That sounds good. I like this talk about

ice cream and flambe's in the summertime and grilling out. This is going to be a great grill. Hey, let me tell you guys, whoever's doing a barbecue this year, take what Tim said to heart. Every barbecue, the propane runs out. Don't make that your barbecue. Get your shit together and have it figured out.

I have a backup. You should own two canisters so you can always get one of them filled. You're supposed to get about one tank of propane is supposed to get you about 15 hours of grilling. You should own two canisters so you can always get one of them filled. You're supposed to get about one tank of propane is supposed to get you about 15 hours of grilling. Oh, wow. So keep that in mind, folks. That's less than I thought. Don't invite people over and then just have one dusty old fucking tank. I went to a place, to a barbecue last year.

It was a wonderful spot. It was up on top of somebody's house, like up on the roof of the apartment. The view is impeccable. The sun was going down so much food ready to be grilled and their propane there was no propane so then like uh me and uh you know director of the pod john haskell had to go out and buy get propaneane. And it just really, it stops short the fun. Because everyone's seeing the food all out. And then you get back and now it's dark and you're like grilling under a flashlight. And that's no good. No, I've done that so many times.

I mean, the number of times I've been in a wet bathing suit driving to a gas station to get propane. And it's just like, it's inherent. I bought a smoker or I was gifted a smoker. And even in the instructions, like the manual, it was like, here's how to have a barbecue. Make sure you got a lot of potato salad because this meat is going to take too long to cook. You're going to fuck it up. People are going to get mad.

You got to serve the potato salad. You're going to fuck it up. Hey, listen to this. I was just poking around on the world wide web there's a drink called the queen mary beer and grenadine really that sounds kind of nice it's just a little splash it's like a spaghetti hey our friend cam from dear blanca owns a bar in Columbia, South Carolina, and he makes a spaghet. And he uses the little pony bottle of High Life, and he also puts a little squeeze of lemon in there. It makes it almost a little bit more of a refreshing Italiano treat. His bar is called Transmission.

Transmission. For anyone who's down in the Columbia, Carolina area. Go to that bar. It's a barcade, and they've got great food, too. Really good food. Now, doesn't it feel like the spaghetti has fully infiltrated culture? Like, a year ago, we did the Aperol Spritz,

and we talked about how a spaghetti is if you take a Miller High Life and put a little splash of Aperol in there, and it was, at that moment there. And it was in the, at that moment to us, it was new to us. And then now I feel like that's like, it was a Baltimore thing. And now it's like pretty all over the place.

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and to take part in the culture. It's just a matter of like, don't use these specifications whatsoever. This is a New York Times cooking blog recipe. I think if you're a bartender and you make this drink, you're probably just, you're thinking about like the way that you would serve, you know, you know, you order a rum and Coke at a bar and it's like ice, a lot of rum, little splash of Coke, just in the top inch. I think that's the deal here is very little grenadine, very little Sprite.

And make this a stiff, make it a nice stiff vodka drink and maybe with a lime wedge and then it's drinkable. I think if you're a bartender too with a drink like this or the rum and coke, it's thank you so much, boom boom, get it out of here, on to the next drink. Fast. Well,

what do you say we do a little round two? Sure. I love that for us. Folks, what do you say we do a little round two? Sure. I'd love that for us. Folks, see you after the ads. As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca.

And we're back with our round two. Optimized Dirty Shirley's. Optimist Prime. I'm going to do my little sip here. Me too. Please. I did half the grenadine, even a little less than half a ounce, to be honest.

And then I went cube crazy. Nice. So there's only five ounces of Sprite in here. And then half a lime's worth of juice. I did no lime, but I went cube crazy like I would normally like to packed it with ice vodka jen topped up with a couple ounces of soda and just enough roses grenadine just to make it pink maybe a quarter ounce the vodka is coming through loud and clear this time

and you like you like that better yeah baby that's. That's a drink. Yeah, that's better. You could drink that out of the bar and not feel weird. And I'm still tasting the fucking grenadine. So you say a splash. You just get a splash. A drizzle. I can't believe on round one that we had an ounce of grenadine. That's weird.

I threw it out. I threw it out. I dumped it down the sink. Wait, that's the amount of grenadine you should have in a year. Doctors recommend. See, I will say this is a little stanky on the vodka, but as it melts, I think I'm going to like it.

I think I just like that. Oh, yeah. Hey, listen to this. Hey, you got some ice in there, baby. Now, how'd you get all that ice all of a sudden? Here's what I did. I took a bunch of aquariums, right? Yeah.

I put them into one of those measuring cups that looks like a big beaker, kind of. Yeah. And then I smashed them up to get the water out of them, tipped it, poured the water out, and then I just had a bunch of aquarium shells. Shavings. Yeah, so now you can tell the shavings in here. You can hear

it. It's like... Thin, thin, thin. Very light. Love it! Well, I have some final things to say about this. Yeah, go for it, Mike. This is an order again for me. I'm going to say, because I want to be part of the scene this summer, I never take part in the scenes, so I want to be part of the scene.

And I'm going to say, you know what? Do me a dirty Shirley and make it a little less grenadine, please. Yeah. Thank you. I'm with you, Mike. I want to be a part of the culture. I want to be a member of my generation. I'm going to be out there on the dance floor with one of these,

but I'm not going to make it to the New York Times specifications. And I don't even think I'm going to say anything to the bartender. I trust that any bartender who's a non-moron will probably put the right amount of grenadine in here. One ounce is just hideous. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you. It's an order again. It's maybe a tenuous order again.

Now, how did the lime help it, Jay? Was that good? It helped. It was good. Because you're a lime freak. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to find any excuse to put a lime in there. And now I'm part of Generation Next, the Dirty Shirley.

Generation Next. Yeah, you're part of the Bud Light Next Generation, drinking a Dirty Shirley. I thought Dirty Shirley was going to be something with the olive juice somehow. To me, when I heard Dirty Shirley, I was like, whoa, this is going to be a crazy concoction. Also, I get Shirley. I don't love that it's called a Dirty

Shirley. I get why it's called that, but Shirley Temple is a toddler. Not anymore. Now she's a skeleton. Okay. So, yeah, I should be. Now she's a skeleton. Okay. So yeah, I should be thinking of a dusty, dirty skeleton.

Why was the Shirley Temple named that? Because she was too young to drink? Let me, I was just looking at this. Shirley Temple is a non-nugget.

Cocktail may have been invented by bartender at Chasen's Restaurant to serve then child actress. Oh, no, that's just the rumor. I think it's because it's a kid's drink and she was the most famous kid. It's a cute kid's drink. Like, if you made it these days, it would be called the...

Young Sheldon. No. Kid from Jerry Maguire? Finn Wolfhard. Ah, Finn Wolfhard. John Limp Nicky? Finn Wolfhard. Kid from Jerry Maguire? Finn Wolfhard. Ah, Finn Wolfhard. Jonathan Lipnicki. Finn Wolfhard. Six foot tall actor.

I got a funny Lipnicki story. I was a receptionist at Gracie Films and got the, opened the mail, headshot from teenage Jonathan Lipnicki being like, hey, I'm still available for acting jobs because they had made, what do I'm still available for acting jobs. Cause they had made a, uh, what do you call it?

Jerry Maguire. Um, but, uh, you know, Lipnicki, uh, it's,

it's very funny when you, you have that iconic role as little boy, it's hard to round the corner into adulthood. This is why I never got famous as an eight year old. Dang. You were famous, uh, corner into adulthood this is why i never got famous as an eight year old you're famous uh you're famous in the sense that you wore um la bamba outfit to school yeah i did in my kindergarten school picture i did dress like richie valens yeah famous in that regard hey i've got a couple more bolos my parents gave me boletized for my birthday

so watch out everybody at formal events what are some of the uh what are the pendants looking like um one has a little saddle and then one is just i think like a little turquoise stone kind of they're kind of all uh like cowboy themed or turquoise huh i'm i'm into the turquoise i'm i'm less uh because here's the thing i'm not actually a cowboy i don't i don't herd up cattle very often i don't sure i don't drive cattle from one part of the country to another part of the country well you do wipe the cow's butts though yeah yeah you gotta now all right Yeah. You got it. Now, hmm. All right. Nothing more to say about that.

Nothing more to say about that. I'm only going to say, you get all these turquoise pieces, tough to match with certain suits. Yeah, give me amethyst. That's what I would want. It's hard to match with a Kelly Green suit. Is that the problem? Actually, that would probably look very nice with a Kelly Green.

Because my Kelly Green suit is already kind of a jade color. Yep. Turquoise. I'd probably do a nice onyx would be appropriate. Oh. What are we wearing to the wedding that we're going to this weekend? You guys picked out your look yet? Luke?

Yep. I'm doing the look. I haven't tried it. I'll see how it looks. But I'm doing the look that I mentioned on our Fashion Week episode with the Patreon. I'm doing gray top, gray suit coat, black pants. Cool. White shirt.

Slick back hair. Ooh, slick back. Hey, Mike Hanford, how you doing? What do I got to do to put you in a beautiful Cadillac today? Telling everyone they look beautiful. Everyone looks beautiful tonight. Slick back hair, sloppy steaks. White couch, white bathing suit.

I'm going to do something different this time. I've got a suit. I like it, but I want a fun suit. A suit that's not even really a suit. Mismatched the paint in the jacket. Maybe a little floral thing. I don't know. Gotta figure it out. I gotta figure it out fast. I'm going suit.

I got a kind of bluish suit, but I'm gonna go fun tie. I might go Jerry Garcia tie. You should do a zoot suit. Big shoulders, long tails, big hat with a feather sticking out of it. Yeah, probably.

Something like that. I mean, my measurements, I kind of am wearing a zoot suit with the big shoulders and the big shoulder pads. It would fit you guys like a zoot suit probably. That's our show. Follow us on social media at The Sloppy Boys where we release these recipes ahead of time. Also, be sure to check out our Patreon where subscribers can unlock the sloppy boys blow out our weekly bonus episode where we do a deep dive into the East

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