Subject: Tommy C
Socko1word@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 14:17:51 GMT
Hello fish,
I've read Raise High the Roof Beams several times now and there is always one
part of the book that affects me the same way time after time. When they're
sweltering in the apartment and Buddy goes to make the drinks and brings them
out, I always get the biggest craving ofr a Tom Collins. Now, granted, the
first time I read it, I had never even had a Tom Collins, so it was simply
more of a curiosity. For a long time, I was always asking various people what
was in a Tom Collins and no one seemed to be completely sure. But then last
summer as I was reading Raise High again, I happened to be at a bar where my
friends and I weren't carded, so I decided to go ahead and order one. It was
quite delicious and turned out to be kind of a foggy green color. This made
sense to me because the ingredients Buddy mentions are the sugar, limes
(which he replaces with lemons), and gin. So then, a couple weeks later, I'm
at a different bar and order one and when it's served to me, it's blood red.
Needless to say, I was quite perplexed and disappointed when it turned out to
have a completely different taste. I was friends with the bartender so he
showed me how it said to make it in the drink book and I believe it had him
adding grenadine or something of that nature. When I tried to have him make
its green equivalent, I must not have had the ingredients or mixing down,
because it just didn't come out right. So, from that point on, I was on a
quest to figure out what color a Tom Collins was supposed to be. When I would
ask people who I thought would be in the know, I got half answers claiming it
was green and half red or "reddish." Then one day, I was strolling in a
Ralph's out at school and spotted a bottle of Tom Collins mix (which
incidentally, is featured in Meet the Parents.) Its color was was a very
fainitish red, almost a foggy pink. You would think that this solves the
mystery, but since then, I've bought a few bottles of Sweet and Sour which
ahve recipes on them for Tom Collins using the Sour- and that was one
ingredient I had never heard mentioned. Are there any fish out there that
could shed some light on my dilemna and/or does anyone have a recipe, or
possibly even more than one, that they will swear by for a refreshing glass,
or maybe even pitcher of, Tom Collins.
thanks for listening
billy hot chocolate
PS-As for the 2nd annual Bananafest, I wouldn't recommend the Subway Series
because those games tend to sell out relatively quickly, plus (and this is
just my opinion) I think it might be a little more fun mixed in a medium size
crowd for a Jays game then a rowdy packed house for the cross-town games.
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