Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership
Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Herbert Elijah Bucklin made himself one of the wealthiest businessmen
Speaker 2: in both Elkhart, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois in late nineteenth
Speaker 2: and early twentieth centuries, and he had patent medicines to
Speaker 2: thank for a lot of that. Let's talk a little
Speaker 2: about who this guy was and how he rose to
Speaker 2: being the impressive businessman he became. It wasn't all snake
Speaker 2: oil and false advertising, although that was a big part
Speaker 2: of it. Welcome to Criminalia. I'm Maria Tremarky.
Speaker 1: And I'm Holly Frye. Herbert was born in Herkimer County,
Speaker 1: New York in eighteen forty eight, and his story doesn't
Speaker 1: really start until the family moved to Elkhart, Indiana in
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three. His father was a druggist and eventually
Speaker 1: brought his son on as a partner. Herbert showed commercial
Speaker 1: aptitude at a very early age before working in his
Speaker 1: father's store when he was still a teenager. He took
Speaker 1: advantage of days when the circus was in town, as
Speaker 1: well as any other times there were large crowds and
Speaker 1: made a considerable amount of money how well. He would
Speaker 1: set up basically lemonade stands, but in addition to the
Speaker 1: refreshing beverage, he would also sell items including peanuts and
Speaker 1: other festival foods. His business acumen really showed though, when
Speaker 1: he convinced his father to buy a second hand soda
Speaker 1: fountain for two hundred and fifty dollars and install it
Speaker 1: in the family drug store.
Speaker 2: Soda fountains were invented in the eighteen fifties, but then
Speaker 2: they were primarily frequented by consumers looking for fountain drinks
Speaker 2: to cure whatever ailed them, rather than sweet trees. Fountain
Speaker 2: drinks in this error were usually made of flavor extracts
Speaker 2: and effervest drugs. In fact, one of the the most
Speaker 2: popular pharmacy drinks was a headache treatment that contained cocaine
Speaker 2: and caffeine. But okay, remember in the nineteenth century, stimulants
Speaker 2: including cocaine were totally legal ingredients. While maybe they weren't
Speaker 2: good for you, nothing hanky was happening at the soda
Speaker 2: fountains of Indiana. Druggists eventually also began to offer other
Speaker 2: menu items at their soda fountains. One of The most
Speaker 2: popular was the milkshake. The original recipe isn't the same
Speaker 2: as what we consider a modern milkshake. It contained carbonated water,
Speaker 2: sweetened flavored milk, and a raw egg and no surprise here,
Speaker 2: ice cream sodas, which were made from flavored soda water
Speaker 2: with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, also sold very well.
Speaker 2: Herbert was onto something hot because it wasn't until the
Speaker 2: end of the nineteenth century when many drug stores finally
Speaker 2: began featuring soda fountains, and they remained popular through the
Speaker 2: nineteen fifties. Ahead of his time and in short time,
Speaker 2: Herbert's idea was one of the most successful features of
Speaker 2: his father's business.
Speaker 1: As an adult, Buckland's own patent medicine business was one
Speaker 1: of his great successes. The H. E. Bucklin in Company
Speaker 1: was a highly successful manufacturer and seller of a number
Speaker 1: of well known brands of patent medicines in the United States.
Speaker 1: Around the turn of the twentieth century, as his proprietary
Speaker 1: medicine business grew, Herbert moved its headquarters from Elkhart to Chicago,
Speaker 1: where the plant occupied one of the finest locations on
Speaker 1: Michigan Avenue. The H. Buckland Building was located across two
Speaker 1: seventy five, two seventy six, and two seventy seven Michigan
Speaker 1: Avenue southwest on the corner of South Michigan Avenue in
Speaker 1: East eighth Street. Today, that's right near Columbia College and
Speaker 1: for the foodies out there, it is also near the
Speaker 1: famous Deep Dish pizza shop, lou Melnotti's. The building was special.
Speaker 1: It was designed by Oscar Cobb, a prominent theater architect
Speaker 1: from Shechego. Several of his works are listed on the
Speaker 1: United States National Register of Historic Places, although the Buckland
Speaker 1: Building is not one of them. H. E. Bucklin Almanax
Speaker 1: between nineteen oh nine through nineteen thirteen, kept at the
Speaker 1: library at the University of Florida, suggests that the business
Speaker 1: was located in Chicago at least until nineteen fourteen, and
Speaker 1: at that point it's listing changes to Saint Louis. But
Speaker 1: before we get too deep into all of that, Herbert
Speaker 1: wasn't always and only a patent medicine manufacturer and retailer.
Speaker 1: He made himself a millionaire before he ever got into
Speaker 1: that business.
Speaker 2: That's right, while in Elkhart, similar to the soda fountain
Speaker 2: success in his dad's pharmacy. One of his important early
Speaker 2: deals as an adult was securing a concession for the
Speaker 2: exclusive sale of soda water on the exposition grounds from
Speaker 2: the managers of the Philadelphia Centennial. In eighteen seventy six,
Speaker 2: a large event held a comemory rate the one hundredth
Speaker 2: anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. You
Speaker 2: know when you go to an outdoor event and there's
Speaker 2: just one brand of bottled water for sale, and it's
Speaker 2: sold at an outrageous price. His deal was like that.
Speaker 2: Also before his move to Chicago, he was influential in
Speaker 2: politics in Elkhart County and was also a farmer and
Speaker 2: raised livestock there. Through his investments in agricultural land and
Speaker 2: then also Chicago real estate, and frankly, eventually his property
Speaker 2: interests extended over half a dozen or more states. All
Speaker 2: of this real estate led to making him a millionaire
Speaker 2: and depending on the records that you look at, perhaps
Speaker 2: a multimillionaire.
Speaker 1: And then Buckland got involved in the railroad. He backed
Speaker 1: the Elkhart and Western Railroad, which ran from Elkhart to Mishawaka, Indiana,
Speaker 1: a short line of about ten miles. Construction of the
Speaker 1: E ANDW as it was known, began in eighteen nine
Speaker 1: and it was completed in eighteen ninety three. And then
Speaker 1: Bucklin invested more than one million, five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: in a rail from Elkhart to the Ohio border, more
Speaker 1: than one hundred miles. He was also a stockholder in
Speaker 1: the New York Central Lines. That is a big deal
Speaker 1: because the New York Central Railroad connected the Greater New
Speaker 1: York area and Boston on the East coast with Chicago
Speaker 1: and Saint Louis in the Midwest. He you could say,
Speaker 1: was diversified in his businesses for sure, and those railroads
Speaker 1: could help him deliver what Buckland's patent medicine company had
Speaker 1: to offer.
Speaker 2: We are going to take a break for a word
Speaker 2: from our sponsors. When we're back, we'll talk about Herbert's
Speaker 2: first patent medicine, one he bought from a real doctor
Speaker 2: and then made famous.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's stop talking about railroads and
Speaker 1: start talking about Herbert's company and its patent medicine offerings,
Speaker 1: including his most famous one that one hundred percent did
Speaker 1: not cure tuberculosis as it claimed.
Speaker 2: Herbert entered the patent medicine business when doctor Z. L. King,
Speaker 2: who had a medical practice in Elkhart, sold him the
Speaker 2: rights to some of his medicines in eighteen seventy eight,
Speaker 2: when King decided to move to Middlebury, Indiana. Less than
Speaker 2: a year after that acquisition, Buckland relocated from Elkhart to
Speaker 2: Chicago and began his journey into proprietary medicines. Elkhart had
Speaker 2: made him successful, but it was a small town. According
Speaker 2: to the eighteen ninety census, which is about a decade
Speaker 2: after he left, Elkhart had a population of only roughly
Speaker 2: seventy six hundred people.
Speaker 1: Once established in Chicago, he rebranded one of King's medicines
Speaker 1: as doctor King's New Discovery for consumption cough and colds,
Speaker 1: and by eighteen eighty five, so about five or six
Speaker 1: years later, New Discovery, as it was popularly known, had
Speaker 1: national recognition that was very fast. It was made for
Speaker 1: both adults and children. Instructions were to take one teaspoon
Speaker 1: one to four times a day, and for infants the
Speaker 1: dosage was ten drops to half a teaspoonful. While we
Speaker 1: know this disease as tuberculosis, at that time it was
Speaker 1: called consumption. Just to clear up any confusion, This was
Speaker 1: a hot time for patent medicine companies, and they were
Speaker 1: all fighting for the number one position. Specifically, they each
Speaker 1: wanted to be the one to make the most money
Speaker 1: off of a cure for tuberculosis, which was ravaging the
Speaker 1: country after the American Civil War. Consumers were willing to
Speaker 1: try just about anything, and physicians weren't much help. Bottles
Speaker 1: of New Discovery were marketing as the cure for tuberculosis,
Speaker 1: and the tagline on its product label read quote the
Speaker 1: true remedy at last discovered.
Speaker 2: But New Discovery, like all other snake oil cures for tuberculosis,
Speaker 2: was not only not going to help you recover, it
Speaker 2: might have actually been harmful to your health. It contained chloroform,
Speaker 2: which was intended to cure your cough, but was also
Speaker 2: used as a solvent as well as a general anesthetic.
Speaker 2: It also contained morphine to add a touch of euphoria
Speaker 2: to the mix, as it's a powerful narcotic, as well
Speaker 2: as alcohol, which was intended to dull the pain. It
Speaker 2: wouldn't have treated your tuberculosis, but maybe you might not
Speaker 2: have cared so much about your symptoms.
Speaker 1: There were some patent medicines that did deliver what they promised,
Speaker 1: although that was kind of a rare situation. Many did not,
Speaker 1: and in addition, many came with a dangerous list of
Speaker 1: ingrid which often included things like opium, cocaine, and the
Speaker 1: ever popular additive alcohol, all in combination. Some contained herbs
Speaker 1: or other fairly benign substances, but these were typically not
Speaker 1: the active ingredients, and they were usually just there as
Speaker 1: flavoring or coloring. Products that couldn't cure anything, claimed to
Speaker 1: treat things like sexually transmitted infections, cancer, and of course,
Speaker 1: as we've been talking about tuberculosis, many and we mean
Speaker 1: many of them claimed that they could quote cure all diseases.
Speaker 2: By the turn of the twentieth century, Herbert began self
Speaker 2: applying the title doctor Snake. Oil salesmen weren't known to
Speaker 2: tell the truth, so really, why not. Buckley's sizable advertising
Speaker 2: budget and smart business decisions were what helped give his
Speaker 2: new discovery product national attention. His advertising team was a
Speaker 2: well oiled machine, and its prowess applied to other products
Speaker 2: manufactured by his company. Patent medicine makers tried all sorts
Speaker 2: of advertising and marketing techniques to get consumers to buy
Speaker 2: their products. Some worked, some didn't, but modern historians note
Speaker 2: that some of today's campaign techniques were pioneered during this era.
Speaker 1: Buckland's company spent large sums of money on advertising campaigns
Speaker 1: across all types of media, but there was one thing
Speaker 1: that made them stand out. The company was fond of
Speaker 1: providing free samples or offering trial sizes to unsure potential customers.
Speaker 1: By nineteen oh five, New Discovery was also being produced
Speaker 1: in a well it's what we would consider a TSA
Speaker 1: approved sized bottle, claiming on its packaging quote, by taking
Speaker 1: the contents of this small bottle, you will readily perceive
Speaker 1: the remarkable curative qualities of this great new Discovery for
Speaker 1: consumption coughs, colds, and all diseases of the throat, chest,
Speaker 1: and lungs, which will convince you of its wonderful merits
Speaker 1: and show you what can be done by a regular
Speaker 1: one dollar size bottle. Give it a trial.
Speaker 2: As Buckland's patent medicines became firmly established in the marketplace
Speaker 2: and the company as a major player in the retail space,
Speaker 2: New Discovery was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in
Speaker 2: Chicago in eighteen ninety three. This kind of retail accomplishment
Speaker 2: was achieved by the company's successful advertising and marketing, of course,
Speaker 2: but the cherry on top was the fifty cent thirty
Speaker 2: one page book published specifically for the event. It was
Speaker 2: half filled with color lithographs of the world's fair buildings
Speaker 2: and the other half descriptive text about Buckland's proprietary medicines.
Speaker 2: Their advertising book became a souvenir. The book claimed New
Speaker 2: Discovery was one of the marvels of the nineteenth century,
Speaker 2: and they included it along with other marvels at the fair,
Speaker 2: such as the original ferris wheel, the first moving walkway,
Speaker 2: and Peanut Butter and Juicy Fruit.
Speaker 1: New Discovery was a huge fraud, but it was also
Speaker 1: a huge hit, and Buckland had other big patent medicine successes.
Speaker 1: According to an advertorial in the ann Arbor Argus in
Speaker 1: November of eighteen ninety five, quote the following four remedies
Speaker 1: reached phenomenal sale. Doctor King's New Discovery for consumption coughs
Speaker 1: and colds, each bottle guaranteed electric bitters, the great remedy
Speaker 1: for liver, stomach and kidneys, Buckland's Arnica Salve the best
Speaker 1: in the world. And Doctor King's New Life Pills, which
Speaker 1: are perfect pills. All these remedies are guaranteed to do
Speaker 1: just what is claimed for them, and the dealer whose
Speaker 1: name is attached here with will be glad to tell
Speaker 1: you more of them.
Speaker 2: Well, we'd like to know more about what makes the
Speaker 2: New Life pills perfect, but we're going to take a
Speaker 2: break for a word from our sponsors, and when we're back,
Speaker 2: we'll tell you more about Buckland products and claims, and
Speaker 2: we'll take a look at some of the interesting ingredient lists.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's talk more about Buckland's company's
Speaker 1: product line because it was more varied than just New Discovery.
Speaker 1: But we also have a spoiler alert. You are gonna
Speaker 1: want to stick around for the end of this episode
Speaker 1: because the last bit surprised even US.
Speaker 2: Promotional literature for these products included testimonials, which was a
Speaker 2: common marketing ploy for patent medicines, as well as general
Speaker 2: health and household advice. In addition to claims about how
Speaker 2: the products were cures for a variety of complaints, their
Speaker 2: marketing materials touted the company's other miraculous drugs as well.
Speaker 2: For instance, one advertisement claimed New Discovery cured tuberculosis, and
Speaker 2: it also included arnica salve in the same advertisement, claiming
Speaker 2: it could cure quote boils, bruises, inflammation, and sores that
Speaker 2: seemed incurable.
Speaker 1: Electric Bitters was another popular product, as New Discovery was
Speaker 1: the top sellar Electric Bitters was a close second. It
Speaker 1: was primarily sold as a laxative nicknamed the Great Family Remedy,
Speaker 1: but its uses, as listed on the packaging, included quote
Speaker 1: all diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys, biliousness, general debility, fever, jaundice,
Speaker 1: blood disorders, and diseases of the urinary organs, neuralgia, nervousness,
Speaker 1: and mental depression. As an appetizer, they are unequaled dose
Speaker 1: for an adult, take from one to three tablespoonsful three
Speaker 1: times a day, before or after meals, according to age
Speaker 1: and constitution of the patient. Weak and delicate constitutions should
Speaker 1: commence with one tablespoonful, reduced with sweetened water, and increase
Speaker 1: as the case demands. This quickly became one of the
Speaker 1: more popular patent medicines that Bucklan's company sold. It costs
Speaker 1: sixty cents in nineteen hundred and it came in a
Speaker 1: large bottle, and it was the Quote Family laxative. It
Speaker 1: contained quote senna, rhubarb, cascara segrada, hops, aloes, wahoo, dandelion,
Speaker 1: gentian uva, ursie, pansy, cameomelian quasia combined with aromatics, and
Speaker 1: one tablespoon contained eighteen percent alcohol. Unpacking, this list of
Speaker 1: ingredients isn't as eye popping as they often can be
Speaker 1: for patent medicines, and that's because some of these ingredients
Speaker 1: were actually laxatives. Senna is known to relieve constipation, so
Speaker 1: that's pretty good start, as is cascara segrata and aloe too.
Speaker 1: But while you may have had some results, the bidders
Speaker 1: would have had more potential as an aromatic liquor.
Speaker 2: Then there was Buckland's New Life Pills product introduced in
Speaker 2: eighteen eighty, which the company claimed to be a cure
Speaker 2: for quote temporary constipation and biliousness, and it contained quote cascara,
Speaker 2: put a fillin, aloin, strychnine sulfate, and capsicum makers. Allegedly
Speaker 2: it was supposed to cure stomach ailments. But that highly
Speaker 2: toxic strychnine that's just a yikes. Let's look at a
Speaker 2: few of the other active ingredients other than the strychnine
Speaker 2: put a fill in today is used to treat genital words.
Speaker 2: Aloin is derived from alo and may or may not
Speaker 2: help relieve constipation. Cascara here is what saves this product.
Speaker 2: It's a dried bark which is not approved by the
Speaker 2: Food and Drug Administration, but is sometimes sold as an
Speaker 2: over the counter laxative, modern snake oil or constipation remedy.
Speaker 2: You can be the judge.
Speaker 1: Buckland's company's product line wasn't all successful, though, and some
Speaker 1: of the products were actually flops, including ones called Doctor
Speaker 1: King's California Golden Compound, Doctor King's Hop Cordial, and Doctor
Speaker 1: Sheeler's Great German Cure for Consumption.
Speaker 2: On top of those flops, there were the critics. New
Speaker 2: Discovery was heavily marketed and featured in many advertisements. It
Speaker 2: drew in customers with all that exposure, but it also
Speaker 2: caught the attention of a man named Samuel Hopkins Adams,
Speaker 2: who was well known as the author behind a series
Speaker 2: called The Great American Fraud, which was published in Collier's Weekly.
Speaker 2: His articles disclosed the fraudulent, duplicitous patent medicine industry to
Speaker 2: the public who were buying the potentially harmful products unaware
Speaker 2: those products could be potentially harmful.
Speaker 1: During the peak popularity of patent medicine, reporters and other
Speaker 1: investigators began to publicize how problematic these sorts of proprietary
Speaker 1: products could be, writing about instances of death, drug addiction,
Speaker 1: and other hazards from the products that at the time
Speaker 1: did not have to disclose their ingredients. New Discovery specifically
Speaker 1: fell under intense scrutiny and criticism. In an expos by
Speaker 1: Adams published in the January thirteenth, nineteen oh six issue
Speaker 1: of Collier's Weekly, Adams wrote, quote, it is proclaimed to
Speaker 1: be the only sure cure for consumption. Further announcement is
Speaker 1: made that it strikes terror to the doctors, as it
Speaker 1: is a morphine and chloroform mixture. Doctor King's new discovery
Speaker 1: for consumption is well calculated to strike terror to the
Speaker 1: doctors or to any other class or profession, except perhaps
Speaker 1: the undertakers. Adams, as you can see, did not pull punches.
Speaker 2: He continued, quote, it is a pretty diabolical concoction to
Speaker 2: give to anyone, and particularly to a consumptive. The chloroform
Speaker 2: temporarily allays the cough, thereby checking nature's effort to throw
Speaker 2: off the dead matter from the lungs. The opium drugs
Speaker 2: the patient into a deceived cheerfulness. The combination is admirably
Speaker 2: designed to shorten the life of any consumptive who takes
Speaker 2: it steadily, but the label didn't provide any sort of
Speaker 2: warning of possible side effects to consumers. To his point,
Speaker 2: nothing about the label or the advertising disclosed that this
Speaker 2: was a mixture of ingredients that could kill you.
Speaker 1: Harmful products are not. The market at this time was
Speaker 1: thick with snake oil, and Bucklem found himself with counterfeitters
Speaker 1: who were making and selling imitations specifically of his company's
Speaker 1: new discovery product, although sometimes knockoffs of his other concoctions
Speaker 1: did pop up as well. While he was defrauding the public,
Speaker 1: he was outraged that someone else was trying to do
Speaker 1: the same thing, and on his back, Bucklan's company released
Speaker 1: a statement to his consumers that will quote a little
Speaker 1: bit of it. Read quote. This is to warn you
Speaker 1: to beware of such people who seek to profit through
Speaker 1: stealing the reputation of remedies which have been successfully curing
Speaker 1: disease for over thirty five years. A sure protection to
Speaker 1: you is our name on the wrapper look for it
Speaker 1: on all doctor King's or Buckland's remedies, as all others
Speaker 1: are mere imitations. H Bucklin in Company Chicago, Illinois, and
Speaker 1: Windsor Canada all druggists.
Speaker 2: But it turns out, despite his impressive business acumen, it
Speaker 2: was Herbert alone who tripped over himself when boasting of
Speaker 2: his quote wondrous arnica sab Buckland inadvertently outed the sav's
Speaker 2: dubious properties asked, and we presume by a reporter or
Speaker 2: or maybe perhaps by a consumers, It's a bit unclear.
Speaker 2: When asked if he had any of the popular salf
Speaker 2: to show, he I'm gonna pause here because we all
Speaker 2: want to cringe together on this one. He replied, quote,
Speaker 2: take some axle grease off your wagon wheel. It's the
Speaker 2: same thing. And that might have been his first instance
Speaker 2: of truth in advertising.
Speaker 1: Oh yuck, would you like a little cuous? What ails
Speaker 1: you to finish this one? Along?
Speaker 2: What? As long as it doesn't any chloroform in it?
Speaker 1: Zero chloroform? This one might be a little bit weird,
Speaker 1: but come with me on the journey.
Speaker 2: We'll take along with you.
Speaker 1: Because what I really was struck by in this story
Speaker 1: in terms of like thinking about a drink was not
Speaker 1: any of the patent medicines. It was the milkshake talk,
Speaker 1: specifically the disc of how early versions of milkshakes before
Speaker 1: they were really what we would call a milkshake today,
Speaker 1: had egg in them. And that made me think about
Speaker 1: eggy drinks like egg creams, which are related an eggnog.
Speaker 1: And then I started thinking about how eggnog is a
Speaker 1: winter treat, but equally rich things like ice cream treats
Speaker 1: are considered summer treats, and I was like, that seems odd.
Speaker 1: What if we could come up with a variation on
Speaker 1: eggnog that is summery. So some of the things that
Speaker 1: go into eggnog that make it wintery are like the
Speaker 1: spices and whatnot, but we can change that up, and
Speaker 1: we can also choose some lighter ingredients so that it's
Speaker 1: not as heavy a drink. This one is definitely a
Speaker 1: dessert drink, though I would say even though it is
Speaker 1: not as heavy as a nog because it is sweet.
Speaker 1: I didn't put peanut butter in it, although I was
Speaker 1: excited we talked about it because I do love peanut butter,
Speaker 1: but that's not in this. Normally, if you make eggnog.
Speaker 1: You use your milk and your cream together and you
Speaker 1: sometimes warm that. This involves no cooking. It's easy to
Speaker 1: put together. I put all of mine in one of
Speaker 1: those little personal blenders. Oh yeah, yeah, which I highly
Speaker 1: recommend is the easiest way to do it. But if
Speaker 1: you have a frother, you could there's a fruit component
Speaker 1: you're just gonna want to cut up really well if
Speaker 1: you go that root. So we are calling this Bucklan's nog,
Speaker 1: even though it's not really a nog and it's not
Speaker 1: really by Buckland, but that's okay. It's delicious. It starts
Speaker 1: with a half cup of coconut milk, and to that
Speaker 1: you're gonna add not an egg yolk like you would
Speaker 1: if you were making an eggnog, but instead two tablespoons
Speaker 1: of egg white, which shows up in a lot of cocktails,
Speaker 1: so that's not too weird. You're also gonna add, this
Speaker 1: is where it gets sweet, two tablespoons of simple or
Speaker 1: vanilla simple syrup if you want to get like that
Speaker 1: vanilla ice creamy taste, make sure you have vanilla. If
Speaker 1: you don't, simple syrup works great, and then a half
Speaker 1: cup of watermelon chunks. You're also going to toss in
Speaker 1: just a drop or two of vanilla extract, not very
Speaker 1: much at all, and then an ounce and a half
Speaker 1: of the whiskey of your choice. This is one of
Speaker 1: those great recipes where if you have, like a whiskey
Speaker 1: or a bourbon that maybe you purchased thinking you would
Speaker 1: like it and it just doesn't quite work well in
Speaker 1: the whiskey forward recipes you've maybe been trying, this is
Speaker 1: a good way to use it. You're still going to
Speaker 1: get its flavor, but all of these other things balance
Speaker 1: it out so that if it's not a flavor you love,
Speaker 1: it won't be as much of a concern and you
Speaker 1: will probably like it more. You can also there's an
Speaker 1: optional ingredient here if you want a slightly thicker, richer
Speaker 1: thing add just like a splash of cream. You don't
Speaker 1: have to do that. It's up to you. That is
Speaker 1: drinker's choice. And then you are just going to blend
Speaker 1: this or if you use your frother, give it a
Speaker 1: really good go. Like I said, if you use the frother,
Speaker 1: you might want to make sure you ash your watermelon
Speaker 1: quite a bit so it doesn't get caught up in
Speaker 1: the little functional frothy bit that's like a coil on
Speaker 1: the end, and then you're just gonna pour it over ice.
Speaker 1: It's stupidly delicious. It's like all the flavor of a
Speaker 1: melted ice cream bar without feeling like you just ate
Speaker 1: a block of cheese, which is what I often feel
Speaker 1: like with heavier drinks than the summit it right.
Speaker 2: Summary, watermelon summary. And you know what, this reminds me
Speaker 2: of that story of him when he was a teenager,
Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen years old and he would set up all
Speaker 2: his lemonade stands.
Speaker 1: Yes, all of that was the interesting stuff to me.
Speaker 2: All of his pre patent medicine proberts.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's where the deliciousness lives. So that is Buckland's nog.
Speaker 1: If you want to make a mocktail version of this,
Speaker 1: you have options. You can just make it as is
Speaker 1: without the whiskey. If you want to keep the same volume,
Speaker 1: just add a little more coconut milk. You can also, though,
Speaker 1: add an ounce and a half of black tea if
Speaker 1: you want to, instead of that. That'll keep the flavor
Speaker 1: a little closer to the alcoholic version. But both are good.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing about this. If you try this
Speaker 1: and like this, this is like a good template recipe
Speaker 1: because one I went with coconut milk and I used
Speaker 1: a splash of dairy cream. But if you don't use dairy,
Speaker 1: you can use whatever creamer you want. You can use
Speaker 1: any other kind of milk that you want. You can
Speaker 1: use dairy milk if you want. You can also change
Speaker 1: up your syrup flavors if you want to add like
Speaker 1: a Kiwi syrup or a lavender syrup or any kind
Speaker 1: of thing. You can even make a spicy one, use
Speaker 1: different fruit. It's all like an easy way to make
Speaker 1: yourself kind of a yummy summertime milkshake that's not as
Speaker 1: heavy as a milkshake. I love a milkshake, but often
Speaker 1: when I eat them in the heat of Georgia, I
Speaker 1: feel le black afterwards because I'm.
Speaker 2: Just like, oh, feel very full after them.
Speaker 1: Now, I just feel very heavy and a puffy and
Speaker 1: I want to lie down. This is a little lighter
Speaker 1: So that is Bucklan's nog Buckland's summer nog. Maybe we
Speaker 1: should call it. Maybe We hope if you make it
Speaker 1: that you have fun, and I hope if you make
Speaker 1: it and you like it, that you do experiment with
Speaker 1: some other ingredients. Subouts because I feel like this guy's
Speaker 1: the limit. Once you have your system down, you can
Speaker 1: just start playing with stuff. We are very delighted and
Speaker 1: thankful that you come and play with us and listen
Speaker 1: to our stories. We will be right here next week,
Speaker 1: once again with a tale of snake oil and a
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