A faux martini is any drink called a ______ martini, but features neither gin nor vermouth. This absolutley kills me. Some 20 year old ding bat thinking she\'s all Sex in the City ordering a chocolate martini. A chocolate martini @ most bars features Hershey\'s syrup. Very sophistico.
Another time this girl ordered a martini and told me I didn\'t know what I was doing when I reached for the gin \'\'...uh, a martini has vodka in it, not gin!". Oooookey.
You would totally hate The Blue Pearl in New Haven; their drink menu is full of faux martinis. I happen to like chocolate martinis though, being a chocaholic and all, but I am completely aware of the difference between that and a regular martini and really not sure why they decided to even call it a martini when it so clearly is not one.
I got this Drinkology book and it said this of chocolate martinis: "
Drinkology turns its snooty nose at most newfangled "Martinis." But out taste-testers love this drink.
They make it with 2 ounces vodka + 1 ounce white creme de cacao, no hershey\'s syrup!
And well we\'re on the subject of drinks, I have to share this one with everyone. It is called a Brain Hemorrhage and here is the blurb on it:
Drinkology, for reasons better left uninvestigated, feels the need to present a few concoctions that are truly awful. Here\'s one that\'s horrifying looking and sickeningly sweet. We suggest that you prepare it as carefully as Anthony Hopkins prepped Ray Liota\'s skull in Hannibal, and serve it to someone you truly don\'t like.
Recipe:
1 1/2 ounces peach schnapps
Slowly add 1 1/2 ounces Baily\'s Irish Cream, allowing it to coagulate into gray-matter-ish clumps (yuk!)
Carefully drip a little grenadine - the "hemorrhage" - on top
If anyone is looking for a good book on drinks, this one is hysterical. It\'s
almost as much fun to read the blurbs as it is to actually drink the drinks.
