{"id":4101,"date":"2020-10-06T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2020\/10\/06\/fancy-a-cocktail\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T09:28:11","slug":"fancy-a-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2020\/10\/06\/fancy-a-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy a cocktail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy a <strong>cocktail<\/strong>?<br \/>\nAnd fancy to know where the name cocktail come from? Well, there are several theories&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Who says it is about the custom of colonial-era American innkeepers to mix spirits leftovers (<em>tailings<\/em>) into one casket and then sell it at cheaper price (the <em>cock<\/em>, as weird it may sound, was the name of the cask tap).<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe a drug store&#8217;s owner in Louisiana, who used to mix drinks made of spirits, water and bitter in a eggcup, which in French is called <em>coqueterie<\/em>, a loanword, soon altered in <em>Cocktail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the XIX century the English travellers in the States were horrified at how their transatlantic cousins \u200b\u200bmixed fine gin with other liquids. They used to call (contemptuously) said experiments with the same name given to pleasant women with questionable ethics, <em>cocktails<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, David Wondrich, an historian passionate about the topic, gives us his version, which isn&#8217;t very romantic for sure: it comes from the habit the horse traders had, to put ginger (or pepper) inside the horse rectal orifice, in order to make the animal raise up (<em>cocking<\/em>) his <em>tail<\/em>, making him look more&#8230; peppy!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here you have a picture of the cocktail station made by Inox Bim.<br \/>\nWhich is way more appropriate that any picture of horses with some spice up their anus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy a cocktail? And fancy to know where the name cocktail come from? Well, there are several theories&#8230;. Who says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}