It was the mid 90’s … India was looking hopeful…we had first multinational paying well..
The empty well was filling up fast … buy a car plan a trip abroad… new clothes … eat out at restaurants without having to look at the menu prices… a child wasn’t yet planned.
Amidst all this euphoria of launch of McDonalds, KFC, there was the launch of TGIF…Thank God it’s Friday.. American style dining and bar with hoola hoop of waiters and service… I loved the atmosphere…. It was near our Discovery Channel Office, we went often.
Welcomes, farewells and even Birthdays and Anniversaries. Akash a colleague even took up their dining membership card.. a loyalty program.
I went often with family as a pre movie drink or dinner and even Sunday Brunch…
In all this milieu we were ordered Long Island Iced Tea it was a potent one all whites and cola (white rum, vodka, gin, tequila etc) it was a large goblet or chalice.. amazing…the same year visiting USA presented more such opportunities…of cocktails but LIIT …was all pervasive..
Then Vib Sharma Praveen’s boss described his experience of the LIIT the huge drink in Singapore perhaps had with spouting straws… I always imagined what that would look like…
From the 90’s I forgot about LIIT and then suddenly i ordered one at Cedar House, the other day was satisfied with 75 ml of alcohol, with so many whites they could have done more…
Within the same week I had another at the Past Times Bar at IHC it was a one plus one night, but found it to be weakened version of the original memory….
Though an accepted cocktail by the IBA International Bartenders Association.. it’s orins are debatable Long Island Tennessee or Long Island New York… it’s an interesting and potent drink which is easy to drink and brings back many youthful memories…of then and now.
No comments:
Post a Comment