I call them a vodka salad, which is closer to how they are served these days. It's a buffet trip on a skewer over a half cup of dressing with a shot of vodka in it.
Truth. Unless I know the place, I never order a Bloody Mary.
The same applies to a Penicillin, but for different reasons. Most places don't take the time to make/age the ginger cordial or use a properly smokey Islay topper so they inevitability come out too sweet and lack smoke.
Give it a shot at home. A ginger cordial is stupidly easy to make and you don't need to sacrifice more than a few drops of a proper sipping Scotch for the topper. IME, any cheaper mixer-Scotch is fine for the spirit base.
Oddly enough, that sounds like something that Harry Crews said in an article probably in Esquire many years ago--he was dismissing a class of drinks as inferior to whiskey.
"'I looked at it, sniffed it. It was pretty pungent and smelled like rotten potatoes... Get me some Worcestershire sauce, some tomato juice, and lemon; that oughta kill the smell'"
I dunno, that passage is such an embellishment it makes me think the whole thing was made up.
For a moment I thought this was about the urban legend, which got me reminiscing about the era when Snopes was a fun treasure trove of wacky urban legends, not “fact-checking” SEO slop.
