A belated Happy Birthday to our friend in Tony Sopranoland. If I was thinking clearly -- always a challenge -- I would have posted this item a week ago. Hopefully, Chris didn't buy a cake at an Italian bakery that Christopher Moltisanti frequented. (The Sopranos, Season 1, Episode 8, "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti.") If you don't remember, Joseph Gannascoli -- who later portrayed Vito Spatafore -- played a bakery patron who received preferential treatment over CRIS-to-fuh. Three hundred pound men should not wear denim, knee-length shorts.
As you are in a 1980s frame of mind, here's a recipe for Long island Iced Tea -- a beloved beverage of the era of Wall Street, Go-Gos, and Miami Vice:
Long Island Ice Tea
- 2 cups ice cubes
- 1 ounce vodka
- 1 ounce gin
- 1 ounce white rum
- ½ ounce Triple Sec
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ cup of cola, or to taste
- 2 lemon wedges
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour the vodka, gin, rum, tequila, Triple Sec, and lemon juice into the shaker. Cover and shake vigorously to combine and chill. Pour the mixture, ice and all, into 2 glasses or beer mugs and top off with the cola. Garnish with lemon wedges. Serve.
Almost makes you want to dig out the old Duran Duran LP. "Discord and rhyme..."
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