1 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome Saber production of I Heart Radio. I'm 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Annie Reese and I'm Lauren vocal Baum. And today we're 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: talking about the Collins Cocktail. Yes, we thought we would 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: do a cocktail hour since a lot of us are 5 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: stuck at home and doing virtual cocktail hours. I know 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: I somehow end up in seventeen a week or something 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: is a mystery even to me. Yep. Yeah, but speaking 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: of drink responsibly always m yes. Um, I'm actually not 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: super familiar with collins Is um outside of the character 10 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: from what we do in the shadow. But when we're 11 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: talking about the trick, I know I've had them before 12 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: and I liked them. But that's sort of my vague 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: recollection is that I kid, remember, is this the thing 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: that you make a big picture of when the war weather? 15 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, that's a Pims cup. That's a Pims cup. Okay, okay, 16 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: vaguely vaguely related. It's it's all within the within the 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: punch category. Um Uh. I don't drink a lot of 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: collins Is. I prefer less sweet drinks. If anything, I'm 19 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have like a non sweetened punch or high 20 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: ball kind of situation. Um. Maybe with some bitters in it. 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: But U but um, but yeah, no, I mean, I 22 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: mean it's a it's a refreshing and delightful cocktail, which 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: I suppose brings us to our question, Yes, Collins cocktails, 24 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: what are they? Well? A Collins is a type of 25 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: alcoholic cocktail, a punch which is at its root a 26 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: a cold sparkling lemonade spiced with liquor. So let's break 27 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: that down a little bit though, um, A punch for 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: for our purposes, here is a liquor cocktail that's diluted 29 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: with water, often sparkling water, and with juices, uh and 30 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: possibly other flavorings, so that a tall glassful of this 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: cocktail only contains like a shot or two of liquor. 32 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: To make a colon's because that will help explain what 33 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: it is Easter. Two parts of your liquor of choice 34 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: with one part lemon juice and about half a part 35 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: of simple syrup with ice and a tall glass and 36 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: then fill the rest of the glass with soda water 37 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: which should be approximately like two to three parts compared 38 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: with everything else. And as it easy, lemon e a 39 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: little sweet, refreshing flavor and kick from the liquor. You 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: can add more simple syrup to taste. Some recipes call 41 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: for even more syrup than lemon juice, which I find egregious. 42 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 1: But but you know, whatever you do, you and and 43 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: simple syrup. If you're not aware, it's just a sugar 44 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: that's been dissolved in an equal amount of water, so 45 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: it's a one to one ratio. Hence the name simple. Yes. Yeah, 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: And whatever liquor you use is gonna come through because 47 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: it is such a straightforward d gin is is common 48 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: and lends like a good like herbal, kind of kind 49 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: of bitter bite. Whiskeys add some like smooth woody notes 50 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: in their brandy, will add a little bit of like 51 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: fruity or baky sweetness. Vodka adds I don't know vodka. 52 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: What what what does vodka do? Um? Nice clean spirit? Sure, yeah, 53 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: yeah it does that. Um and uh. The drink is 54 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: so old that the glassware that it is traditionally served 55 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: in is named after it. Um. A Collin's glass is 56 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: a tall, skinny glass with straight sides, and it's a 57 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: little bit larger in volume than a highball glass, which 58 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: is just a tiny bit shorter. Highball cocktail, meanwhile, is 59 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: typically just a liquor plus soda over ice. So yeah, 60 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: there's your difference there. You go. Well, nutrition wise, what's 61 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: going on here? We say again, drink responsibly. I mean, 62 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: you know, depend on how much simple syrup you add. 63 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: A Collins is pretty light on calories um and can 64 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: be a decent way to like slow your proverbial role 65 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: because it it is dilute um and it's made for sipping. 66 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: Or even they can sneak up on you because they're 67 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: so light and refreshing. Either one. Yeah, you know, I 68 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: now that I think about it, I'll have to look 69 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: back and check. But I think when my mom and 70 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: I went on our moonshine adventure that one time, I 71 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: think we had a Tom Collins or Collins of some 72 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: sort made with moonshine and it was delicious. Like my 73 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: mom was a little nervous about trying moonshine, and the 74 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: people working there said, we'll try this really refreshing mix 75 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: on it. It was really really good. I think it 76 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: was a Collins. Yeah, that's uh, it's it's a great 77 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: way to to try basically anything because it's just it's 78 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: it's like it's it's it's it's like a hard lemonade. 79 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: It's tasty mm hmmm mm hmm, and people do seem 80 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: to like them. Yeah. As a According to Google search 81 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: data reviewed by Versus Reviews, the Tom Collins was the 82 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: most popular drink in three states that year Mississippi, Delaware 83 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: and Maine. Um and also according to Drinks International, which 84 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: is a website that reaches out to some like hundred 85 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: or so of the most popular bars in the world 86 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: every year to compile a best selling drinks list globally, 87 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: the Tom Collins was the best selling drink in the 88 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: world as Wow, look at you Tom Collins m oh 89 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: and and a Tom Collins specifically is often the term 90 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: for a Collins made with gin. And why that is 91 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: and how that has changed is something that we will 92 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: get into in the history section. Yes, yes, this one's 93 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: got some fun stuff in it. I'm very excited. Oh 94 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: it does. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, let's let's get into that. 95 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: But first let's take a quick break for a word 96 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: from our sponsor and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, 97 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: thank you. Uh So. Punches were probably the original type 98 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: of cocktails made. They were probably created by British East 99 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: India company sailors or workers in the early sixteen hundreds. 100 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: Who were just trying to prevent to prevent scurvy and 101 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: and water down their aqua vite to something with the 102 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: strength of wine or beer so that they could, you know, 103 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: drink more of it. And these punches made their way 104 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: back to London and then around the world. Um, huge 105 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: fancy punch bowls, very fancy. We're very much in fashion 106 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: for a couple of centuries, but they started going out 107 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: of fashion in the mid to late eighteen hundreds in 108 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: favor of singular cocktails. Yes, and this episode of Sabor 109 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: is brought to you by oh hoax, hoax, because that's 110 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: apparently where the name originated in New York in eighteen 111 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: seventy Tom Collins. Yes, the hoax goes. Thus Tom Collins 112 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: was allowed annoying gossip. He frequented pubs loudly bad mouthing 113 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: anyone and everyone, which meant that people, mostly men, because 114 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: they could like go to bars and confront people found 115 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: out through the grapevine, probably their friends, what Collins had 116 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: been saying about them, and they were inevitably goaded into 117 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: confronting Collins about it, like, Oh, I heard he was 118 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: at this bar down the street. He's been talking trash. 119 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: You better go find him, but he was always nowhere 120 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: to be found. So they'd go up to the bar 121 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: and ask for Tom Collins, and then they would receive 122 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: a sour drink instead, because Tom Collins didn't exist. And 123 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: somewhere along the line, and enterprising bartender came up with 124 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: the idea to make a drink called the Tom Collins 125 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: so that when people asked for him, they had to 126 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: buy a drink. This. I love this, so I love 127 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: this so much. This was widespread enough of a prank 128 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: that it earned the name the Great Tom Collins Hoax 129 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: of eighteen seventy four. It was a whole thing. It was. 130 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: It was very popular in New York and Philadelphia. Songs 131 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: were written about Tom Collins, including Tom Collins is my Name, 132 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: with the lyrics some wretches without heart, our soul or 133 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: fooling you and me. At first, news outlets reported on 134 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: it in all seriousness, detailing his appearances around the United States. 135 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 1: Take this example, printed in the Decatur third Daily Republican 136 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: in eighteen seventy four headline Tom Collins still among us article. 137 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: This individual kept up his nefarious business of slandering our 138 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: citizens all day yesterday. But we believe that he succeeded 139 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: in keeping out of the way of his pursuers. In 140 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: several instances he came well nigh being caught having left 141 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: certain places but a very few moments before the arrival 142 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: of those who are hunting him. His movements are watched 143 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: today with the utmost vigilance. Bye bye. In all seriousness, 144 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure that that they were serious. Yes, yes, 145 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: some of them were at first, but then they definitely 146 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: were just kind of poking. Yeah. Yeah, But that was not, 147 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: by far the only newspaper article about it. There are 148 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: so many examples, yes, like this one from the seventy 149 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 1: four edition of the Gettysburg Complier. Have you seen Tom Collins. 150 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: If you haven't, perhaps you had better do so, and 151 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: as quick as you can. While he is talking about 152 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: you in a very rough manner, calling you hard names, 153 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: and altogether saying things about you that are rather calculated 154 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: to induce people to believe there's nothing you wouldn't steal 155 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: short of a red hot stove other little things of 156 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: that nature, he is openly speaking in public places and 157 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 1: as a friend. Although of course we don't wish to 158 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: make you feel uncomfortable, we think you ought to take 159 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: some notice of them and of Mr Tom Collins. This 160 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: is about the cheerful substance of a very successful, practical 161 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: joke which has been going their round to the city 162 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: in the past week. It is not to this manner born, 163 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: but belongs to New York, where it was played with 164 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: immense success to crowded houses until it played out. I see, 165 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: I wonder how long it was before people were like, wait, 166 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: Tom Collins is messing with you. He's messing with how's 167 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: he getting around? So? Why why have none of us 168 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: ever met him? All the stoopin Bille Daily Harold printed 169 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: in that the hoax played out, Frantic young men rushed 170 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: wildly through the streets of the city on Saturday, hunting 171 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: for the libelous Tom Collins. Frantic young men. Oh gosh, 172 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: so so so I love this so much because because 173 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: first of all, this hoax is like kind of mean 174 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: but still pretty funny. Like you're you're like, oh man, 175 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: like like like like Annie, did you know this guy 176 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: Tom Collins has been saying all kinds of nasty things 177 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,599 Speaker 1: about you. Do you want to go kick him? And 178 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: his took us um and like kind of getting you 179 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: inflamed and like ready, ready to like start a bar 180 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: fight and then sending you into a bar and but 181 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: like on top of that first level of hoax, a 182 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: whole bunch of bar tenders were just like, I'm tired 183 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: of this. Let's let's hoax these already hoaxed people. It's 184 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: like an exception. It's a hoax with an hoax. Upple 185 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: hoax and give them a delightful spiked lemonade. Yes, I 186 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: love it. I'd be like Tom Collins saying you don't 187 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: know anything about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lauren. He's saying 188 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: things you wouldn't believe. He said you were a Slytherin. 189 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: Tom Collins must be stopped. I love it. I love it. 190 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: This actually reminds me, um if anyone in Atlanta might 191 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: have randomly noticed this and not realized what it was. 192 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 1: But Georgia Tech has this ghost student called George Peeperdell 193 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: and he gets called over the intercom at Heartswell Jackson 194 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: all the time. You'll just see his name appear, and 195 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: it's supposed to be an in joke. Uh. It sort 196 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: of reminds me of that likes the Sky, Yeah, mythical guy. Yeah, 197 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: just running around except George P. Burnell has like garnered 198 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: a whole lot of honors. Um. Apparently the last time 199 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: or one of the times that Obama came and spoke 200 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: on campus, he was supposed to introduce him, but no 201 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: one could find him to do it, so he is. 202 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: So this is such a fun story, But it wouldn't 203 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: be a cocktail hour without multiple origin stories. It just wouldn't. 204 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: My brain wouldn't even be able to comprehend it. Some 205 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: drink historians will lieve the Tom Collins was actually once 206 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: a John Collins, named for the head waiter at London's trendy, 207 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: well known Limours hotel in the eighteen seventies, and their 208 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: signature drink was a gin punch, and it got all 209 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: tied up in this Tom Collins thing. There's even in 210 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: eighteen sixties Limerick about it. It goes My name is 211 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 1: John Collins, head weight at Limour's corner of Conduit Street, 212 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,840 Speaker 1: Hanover Square. My chief occupation is filling brimmers for all 213 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: the young gentlemen frenchers there. So I mean, if you've 214 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: got a Limerick, you must be pretty well known. It's 215 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: pretty pretty hard historical evidence of something that that there 216 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: was a guy named John Collins, who was who was 217 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: serving drinks there at any rate. Yes, yes, A few 218 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: stories attribute the drinks creation to a bartender named Tom 219 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: Collins in New York or San Francisco or Australia, probably 220 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: multiple places outside of that. Others speculated at the time 221 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: the name changed because of the preference for old Tom Gin. Yeah, 222 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: from John Collins to Tom Collins because of all Tom 223 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: Jin And a word here about the state of gin 224 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: and other juniper based liquors at the time, because this 225 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: is important. So the popular jin's on the scene around 226 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: the eighteen sixties ish were these slightly uh sweeter and 227 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: less spiced jin's called old Tom Jin's. And these are 228 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: liquors that that are flavored with juniper, yes, but um 229 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: but generally with um a sweet aromatics instead of sharp ones, 230 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes malts or sugars to to up the up 231 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: the sweetness factory even more. And they tend to be 232 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: um yeah, like milder and sort of softer on the 233 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: palette than London dry style jin's, which are what's popular today. 234 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: And they can also be a little bit milder, but 235 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: in a sort of different way than your neighbor um 236 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: spelled with a j which is the European juniper flavored 237 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: liquor that the British were inspired by when they created 238 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: Gin and enegavor comes in a couple different categories um 239 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: um milder, young and aged, funky, multi aromatic ould and 240 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: yeah it comes from the Netherlands Belgium like slash the 241 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: surrounding area. We'll have to do a whole episode on it. 242 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: But uh but yeah, um. All all three of these products, 243 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: London Dry, Gin, Old Tom, Jin and Um Jenniver would 244 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: have been available at various bars in the time, and 245 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: it would have been prudent to specify which you wanted 246 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: in a drink rather than just saying like Jin, although 247 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: most of the time if you said Jin you would 248 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: have gotten old Tom or you neighbor. Anyway, London Dry 249 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: style wouldn't really become popular until the turn of the 250 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: twentieth century. Um so yes. At the time in the 251 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: English speaking world, Tom was a little bit synonymous with Jin. 252 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: Makes sense, yeah, sense yeah. The first known recorded recipe 253 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: for the Tom Collins appeared in the six second edition 254 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: of Jerry Thomas's The Bartender's Guide, a full title The 255 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: Bartender's Guide How to Mix Drinks or the bon Vivant's companion. 256 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: I've also read it might have been the seven printing 257 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: Mysteries History. You know. Yes, so this entry encompassed a 258 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: type of drink that was then further specified with the 259 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: type of alcohol you so jin Tom Collins, brandy Tom Collins. 260 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: Over the years, mixologists went on to specifically define Tom 261 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: Collins as a gin drink. The original Thomas recipe was 262 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: take five or six dashes of gum syrup, sugar syrup, 263 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: juice of a small lemon, one large wine glass of gin, 264 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: and two or three lumps of ice one large wine glass. 265 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that it meant the type 266 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,439 Speaker 1: of large wine glasses that we think of when we 267 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: think of large wine glasses today, which might fit like 268 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: an entire bottle of wine. I think I do. Yeah, 269 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: well I have one of those. But yeah, I hope it. 270 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: I hope it. It would explain a few things about 271 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: that that gin fear, Yes, that gin madness that that 272 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: went through. But no, no, I think it was a 273 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not actually sure entirely what it means. 274 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: I meant to look it up and then I didn't, 275 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: So there you go. Yeah, And I just to throw 276 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: out there. We do have our past episode we did 277 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: on Gin and we also made a really cool video 278 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: with a local the Silvery Old Force, about the making 279 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: of jen and we got to help make Jinn. It 280 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: was pretty pretty yeah, oh yeah, we got to. They 281 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: get UM some of their some of their finishing juniper 282 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: from a local cemetery, so we got to go out 283 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: to the cemetery and pick juniper with them, and then 284 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: they just put us on the bottling line. And I 285 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: think we would have stayed there forever if if they 286 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: hadn't run out of Gin to bottle. So yes, yes, 287 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I felt like I worked there. 288 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: Yeah boy, yes, oh no, I was. I was just 289 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: getting really good at the at the cork stoppage machine. 290 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: Just oh yeah. It was really satisfying. It was, Yes, 291 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: So I can go check that out. It's all on 292 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: the interwebs on YouTube, it is yeah. Yeah. And they 293 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 1: are also one of the companies that has um switched 294 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: over to making hand sanitizer to give away in the community. 295 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: UM and in these are of good times, so good people. Yeah, 296 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: we're you in really great stuff all right. Back to 297 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: the history. In eighteen seventy eight, the Tom Collins was 298 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: a popular cocktail being served throughout the United States. Not 299 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: long after that, the sugar was replaced by this gum 300 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: syrup and old Tom Jin became, Yeah, the base alcohol 301 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: of choice. Drinking a Tom Collins is a very fashionable 302 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: thing to do. I love that a hoax, basically a 303 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: hope drink potentially became a very fashionable drink. Yeah. Yeah, 304 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: I think it's just one of those nods of of 305 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,719 Speaker 1: of like of like, oh, like I know what's going on, 306 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: you know what's going on. Yeah. Also it's tasty, so true. 307 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: In eighteen eight two, Harry Johnson's Bartender Manual came with 308 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: two types of Collins, the John Collins, which was the 309 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: Neighbor based and the Tom Collins Old Tom Gin based. 310 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: David A. Embury wrote in his nineteen forty eight work 311 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks quote eliminate made with 312 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: charge water and spiked with gin or some other liquor. Originally, 313 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: there were only two brothers in the Collins family, Tom 314 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: and John. During recent years, however, numerous cousins have appeared 315 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: on the scene Pedro, Pierre, Sandy, Mike, Jack the Colonel, 316 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: and several others whose first names have not yet been 317 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: recorded in the baptismal registry. It's a lot of experimentation. 318 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: It sounds like oh and I and I ran, I 319 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: ran across a list of of what of what all 320 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: of these names are supposed to mean. Uh, let's see. 321 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: Uh Colonel Collins was with bourbon Jack, was with Calvados. 322 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: Is that how you say that? Oh? I don't know. 323 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, um Uh. Sandy Collins would have been with 324 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: Scotch um um. Mike was with Irish whiskey. Oh, I 325 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: get it. Oh that's offensive. Cool. Uh. Pierre was with 326 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: a cognac or brandy. Huh. Sometimes I guess of vodka. 327 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,400 Speaker 1: Collins would be called a Joe call cute Joe Collins. 328 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: I feel like I knew a Joe Collins in my day. 329 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 1: And like most cocktails we talk about, and these are 330 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: cocktail hours, the Collins went through a rough patch with 331 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: a super sweet pre mixed concoction. Uh in the nineteen eighties. 332 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: I so many articles. Uh yeah, yeah, that's right. To 333 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: forget that whole period of time when instead of using 334 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: fresh lemon or lime, you would just use packaged sour mix, 335 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: which does not necessarily taste like lemon or lime. Um, 336 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: but it certainly very sweet, and we'll do a very 337 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: different thing in a in a cocktail than um, lemon 338 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: and sugar. So uh yeah. And and also in more 339 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: recent history, within the past ten years or so, a 340 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: number of distilleries, because of the Tom Collins cocktail basically 341 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: have got into producing old Tom style jin's again. Um. 342 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: Whereas for basically since Prohibition and in America for sure, 343 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:11,479 Speaker 1: although um gavor has been around this entire time. But um, 344 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: in the English speaking world, I think the sweeter old 345 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: Tom style of jin's had been basically lost lost to 346 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: time for a good a good few decades. But um, 347 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: but they're coming back. There's there's a few on the 348 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: market now if you care to seek them out. That's exciting. 349 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: I love jen I I didn't used to, but I 350 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: think I was just having As I've said before, you 351 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: know a lot of us in college are not having 352 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: the best quality. Yeah. No, no, I thought that jin 353 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: jin was like synonymous with like pine salt to me 354 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 1: for a long time. Yes, me as well. And it 355 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: was one of those things I genuinely couldn't figure out. 356 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: I could get behind cheap tequila, I could get behind 357 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: I didn't love it, but I could get behind it. 358 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: I could get behind cheap vodka, but cheap jen I couldn't. 359 00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: So I'm very glad that that world has open to me. Um. 360 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:07,479 Speaker 1: I also love the punt opportunities with gin because my 361 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,719 Speaker 1: one of the my favorite stories that I wrote that 362 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 1: my D and D characters based on her name is Genesis, 363 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: and she, as Lauren, knows, likes to drink um, and 364 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: her favorite drink is gin. And it took me forever 365 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: to arrive at that. And it's a whole like metaphor 366 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: for I don't want to get into it, but it's 367 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: it's a source of She gets really irritated when people 368 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 1: make fun of the fact that she orders gin. Jin 369 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: orders gin um and I made in D and D. 370 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: I made the goblet of inspiration. Oh right, Oh that 371 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: was a that was a good one. I sent many shenanigans. 372 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: I might have ultimately made things more difficult for myself, 373 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: but that's what being a dungeons master is all about. 374 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: That is certainly what you being a dungeons master. Build 375 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: a dioramas impossible for yourself. Oh I can't wait. We 376 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 1: really we really need to figure out how to do that. 377 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Yes, yes, and perhaps we can have, 378 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: if not a Tom Collins, some sort of Gin Collin's drink. 379 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have. The only ingredient I 380 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,400 Speaker 1: don't have is this soda water. Yeah yeah, I've been 381 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: meaning to pick up um more soda water. And yeah yeah, 382 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: maybe maybe the next time I ventured to a liquor 383 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: store it'll it'll be Gin, It'll be Jan. It's all 384 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: coming up, Jim. But all right, that's what we have 385 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: to say about the Collins cocktails for today. It is 386 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: um and we do have a little bit more for you, 387 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: but first we've got one more quick break for a 388 00:24:49,040 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes, 389 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: thank you, and we're back with listen Na refreshing. I 390 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: imagine it's quite refreshing. Yeah, Susan wrote, you may find 391 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 1: the White House Easter Bunny to be creepy, but there's 392 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: an amazing man behind the costumes that there are three bunnies. 393 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: He's local to Cincinnati and has been doing at the 394 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,239 Speaker 1: costumes for nearly forty years. Also sideshout out everybody. A 395 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: lot of people from Cincinnati have written in lately, so hello, yeah, hi, 396 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: she continues, I used to find costumed characters to be 397 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: creepy in college. I decided to take over this fear 398 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: by running at people and costumes in bellowing take our 399 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: Picture with Me, which succeeded in scaring them more than me. 400 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 1: So problem solved. Back in the carrot episode, you asked 401 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: if bunnies eat carrots, I had a pet rabbit, an 402 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: endurable French lop named Goof because she was such a 403 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 1: goof all. She had her prescription once and they had 404 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: to put Goof our last name on the battle label. 405 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: It was both precious and embarrassing. While our rabbit handbook 406 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: told us that rabbits primarily eat carrott leaves because they 407 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: stick out of the ground and the lazy fluffers don't 408 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: dig up the actual carrots, our bunny would eat carrots 409 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: the baby cut kind hand fed to her while you 410 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: held the carrot for her until she nip up your 411 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: fingers from finishing. While my father and I were given 412 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 1: frozen TV dinners are Kansas spaghetti as to eat, my 413 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: mother would go to the grocery store and stock up 414 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: at the salad bar for the rabbit, kale, spinach, fresh fruit. 415 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: Lauren mentioned in the Eastern episode that all rabbits she's 416 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 1: met have seen a grow, and she's not exactly wrong. 417 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: We got Goof because I scooped her, the very tiny 418 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 1: eight ounce body out of a pet storepin snuggled her 419 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: in the palms of my hands, and she glared at 420 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: me with a look that said I care not for you, 421 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: obnoxious human. It was love at first sight from my perspective. Anyway, 422 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: I love the podcast. I was able to get caught 423 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: up during this lockdown, so now I'll be up to date. 424 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: Ps Annie read vernicula, I will I gotta put it. 425 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: I gotta write it down somewhere. Yeah. Oh, that's wonderful. 426 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: Is a great name. Goof is a tour especially for 427 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,200 Speaker 1: a rabbit. I feel like that's a very apropos rabbit name. 428 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: Um oh gosh um. Sydney wrote in your Eastern episode, 429 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: you mentioned the tradition of egg tapping. My family has 430 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: done this my entire life and always called it spitzeling. 431 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 1: I've spelled it phonetically because I've never seen it written 432 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: down in my Google searches have revealed absolutely nothing. I'm 433 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: now convinced that someone in my family made this name up. 434 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,879 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the official rules are, but we 435 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: would tap both ends of our eggs, and the last 436 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: two people left would go against each other while the 437 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: whole family watched. There's always a lot of debate on 438 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: the best way to hold the egg, a whole hand 439 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: wrapped around or just the fingertips. I'm personally on team 440 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: whole hand, and my strategy is to try to figure 441 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 1: out which end has the air pocket in it and 442 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: get that end out of the way. I was pretty 443 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: much convinced my family had made this whole thing up, 444 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: but I'm so glad to hear that it's actually a thing. 445 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: I love the strategy involved. Yeah, oh gosh. Also, bitzeling 446 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: is an amazing word. Yes, that's high quality. Whether it's 447 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: real or not, it doesn't matter. It's real. It's real now, 448 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: it's real, and that's what that's what counts. Yes. And 449 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: actually a lot of people have written in about this 450 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: as well. You'll be hearing some more stories. Perhaps they 451 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: call it a different thing, but essentially it seems like 452 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: a lot of people are doing this and I love it. 453 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: I love it. Yes, So thanks to both of them 454 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: for writing in. If you would like to us, you 455 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: can and We would love to hear from you. Our 456 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: email is Hello at savor pod dot com. We are 457 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: also on social media and you can find us there 458 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram at savor pod. 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