With the media rife with ripped-from-the-headlines stories involving xenophobia, the Dog Denizens of Genesee Park (DDGP) sought the unlikely comments of Weather Prognosticator/Labor Advocate O'Doul the Collie.
"Although I don't look like I was born in this country," O'Doul said through his spokesman, Mount Baker resident Tony, "I'm really an American. I'm not a foreign dog."
To further celebrate our American heritage, we bring you a cocktail recipe linked to our fiftieth state... and the birthplace of the forty-forth President of the United States. Say "aloha" to Hawaii!
Two drinking establishments from the days of yore both claim to have invented the mai tai.Los Angeles-based Don the Beachcomber reputedly concocted the first mai tai in the early 1930s. Trader Vic's Polynesian restaurant in Oakland boasted to have first brewed the beverage in 1947.
Former Major League Baseball Pitcher/Author/Shredded Bubble Gum Entrepreneur Jim Bouton described in Ball Four discovering mai tais when his minor-league ballclub went to Hawaii for series in Honolulu. Bouton characterized mai tais as "a Hawaiian drink brewed by the evil gods of the volcanoes and no fit for a clean-cut American boy like me."
Celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's with a cocktail courtesy of the evil vulcano gods.
Trader Vic's Mai Tai
- 1 oz. gold rum
- 1 oz. dark rum
- 1 oz. triple sec
- ½ oz. lime juice
- ½ oz. Orgeat syrup
Shake liquid contents with ice. Strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish with pineapple chunk, maraschino cherry and mint leaves.
Bonus points if you serve in a vintage Trader Vic’s cocktail glass that you found at a yard sale – and not on eBay. Any wanna-be hipster can click the "buy it now" button.
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