For a change of pace, instead of a drink recipe here’s a quick tip on booze terminology and etiquette. I’m not sure you will find this in ‘Emily Post’s book on Etiquette’, or for that matter read about this anywhere. This is something I made up. This is Pyrate jargon and etiquette applied under my house rules. That said, feel free to take this idea and make it your own.
Recently I invited a friend over for cocktails. He had been baking under the Georgia sun all day watching kids soccer and expressed concern about staying out too late. I told him this would not be a problem as I had invited him for cocktails, not drinks. And per my Pyrate rules, one can guiltlessly drink two cocktails and not have been drinking. However, once the third goes up and over you have now left the classy, refined world of cocktailing and crossed into the boozy, party realm of drinking.
Because words matter, and it’s important to set boundaries, my friends and I decided to differentiate these terms. That way we could politely express our intent as to whether we were going to be social versus be pirates. It also allows me say to myself, “no I was not drinking last night”, which somehow feels healthily reassuring.
So there you go. New lingo for the bar scene. And with that, I have to go, time to prepare for company!
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