Sunday, January 30, 2005

Dear metrosexual downtown Seattle waiters

Do not serve me a vodka and 7up and say that's the way the tonic tastes. Tonic is crisper than that. Don't tell me "most bars" use diet tonic and imply that when I go out to all those other bars, I'm tasting their inferior but tastier diet tonic and for a good drink go for the Grey Goose or other primo voddy. Some of us have worked in bars before, thank you, and know what tonic tastes like and that anytime you mix the already tasteless vodka you have basically compromised its fragile flavor from the get-go so well will do just fine as long as it wasn't distilled in a lead pipe in someone's tub.

Just say "Our tonic is very sweet; if you'd like I can throw in a dash of bitters." Because there's your solution, really. And it is the least you can do at $7.50 per well drink.

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