1 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Saber. I'm any and I'm lowin 2 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: vogel Bam, and today we're talking about the mimosa. The 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: mimosa in the first Cocktail Hour of twenty nineteen. Yeah, 4 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: and it's a good one to start the year off with. 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's what I started my year off drinking. 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: It is. Yeah. I had sparkling wine minus the orange 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: like the next morning. Yeah, technically it had grape fruit 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: juice and it I guess, I mean anyway, we're getting 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: into some technicalities, but it's technicalities importance. It is a 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: tradition in my house, um that we would me and 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: my mom, no, no one else, but we would drink 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: mimosas on New Year's Day and we would have the 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: traditional Southern New Year's meal, Oh, peas and greens and 14 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: ham and ham and cornbread. We never do the corn bread, no, 15 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: but I I didn't realize until we did that episode 16 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: that it makes more sense to have the corn and 17 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,559 Speaker 1: in the theme of the meal. I like, bread doesn't 18 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: make sense at all, honestly, but it's just delicious. Yes, 19 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: always so always. Um. I did go through a very 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: big mimosa phase in college, very big and when I 21 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: was living in China. There was this American themed restaurant 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: under my apartment, and me and my friends we were 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: semi regulars there and they had these drinks you could 24 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: order American sized, which meant that they came in these 25 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: metal buckets, like big metal buckets. And the two drinks 26 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: you could get this way where a rum and coke 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: and a mimosa, and I would drunkenly claim to everyone 28 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: that this was my serving of fruit for the day. 29 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: The drink responsibly, everybody drink responsibly. Yes, that's a big 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: theme of this episode. Actually it is. It is um. 31 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: And also, I recently to Mimosa Fest in Atlanta. I'm 32 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: still horrified by the entire concept of this. Well, it's 33 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: really funny because I was hanging out with you and 34 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: Dylan before at like a Mimosa brunch to prepare for 35 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: Mimosa Fest, and uh, I gotta say, I was pleasantly 36 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: surprised by the turnout. It was much more diverse than 37 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna be. I was gonna be 38 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: like college age white people. Um. And there was such 39 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 1: a range of Mimosa theme t shirts it was so good. 40 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: My favorite one was obviously the Harry Potter one, it's mimosa, 41 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: not mimosa. I feel kind of silly, but I had 42 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: no idea that people had such strong opinions and passion 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: about mimosas. The police had to shut the festival down 44 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: because we were dancing too much, too wildly. Uh, you know, 45 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: they reopened it. They just wanted everybody to like take 46 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: a minute, chill out, skinness to to wild Yeah you can. 47 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: You can have too much fun on mimosas. As it 48 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: turns out, I suppose that is wise a wise lesson 49 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: of this episode. But yeah, that brings us to our question. 50 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: Mimoses what what what? That's that's all we have. When 51 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: you start drinking the mimosas, then your your sentences get 52 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: they do get a little bit shorter. Yeah, yeah, Well. 53 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: Mimosa is a cocktail traditionally made with sparkling wine and 54 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: orange juice. Uh. The International Bartenders Association says it's equal 55 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: parts of each though you can make it, you know, 56 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: heavy on either the sparkling or the juice to your preference. 57 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: Dry wines are usually used to offset the sweetness of 58 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: the juice. There's apparently controversy about whether you should use 59 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: pulpy or strained orange juice most a controversy, momosa controversy. 60 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: I like a little bit of pulp. I mean, come on, 61 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: it's like a salad. Yeah, it's your fruit survey of 62 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: the day. I'm on board. Uh. And the result of 63 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: all of this is a bright, fresh tasting drink. It's 64 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: sit your c and sweet and tingly and a little 65 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: bit sour and yeah, yeah, it's nice and refreshing. It is. 66 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 1: The name comes to us thanks to a flower called 67 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: what the momosa surprise. It's native to Mexico and Central 68 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: and South America, and it's blossom is bright yellow or 69 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: orange like the drink makes sense or some other places 70 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: I read it's named after the Australian shrub that was 71 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: popular among French gardeners, which would make sense that the 72 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: name came from there. History mystery, We've said it before, 73 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 1: mysteries of history. But how do you make one? Basically 74 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: you mixed orange juice and one okay, all right. Squeezing 75 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: fresh juice really does make a difference in the drink 76 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: because it is so simple, um, and fresh orange juice 77 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: is so lovely. What I like to use. I've got 78 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: one of those handheld hinged citrus pressers. Um, it's a 79 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: little bit messy, but you can get a good one 80 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: for like under fifteen bucks, and they're so easy to use. 81 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,239 Speaker 1: You don't have to plug anything into a wall socket. 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: Strain your juice if you want to chill both it 83 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: and a bottle of sparkling wine. For that wine gets 84 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: something you wouldn't mind drinking on its own. Yeah, it 85 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: just makes sense. It does, it does, um, and again, 86 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: probably go for something dry. Um dry as opposed to sweet. 87 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: It's not like dry wines have like less water content 88 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: or something like that, right, um or I don't know. 89 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: If you have a sweeter palette, go for a sweeter sparkle. 90 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: That's nice to do what you want, Yeah, do you? 91 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: Prosecco's and cobbas tend to be on the dryer side, 92 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: unless expensive for the quality. In my personal experience and 93 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: reminder of the episode, if you're going for a dry sparkle, 94 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: look for the words brute or extra brute on the 95 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: label that indicates a dry sparkling wine. Confusingly, sparkling wine 96 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: that's labeled dry or extra dry is sweeter than brute 97 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: and extra brute. I no one asked me when they 98 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 1: were making these labeled designs, should have I know, you know, 99 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: I was recently. I was perusing sparkling wine section at 100 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: a local liquor store, which, by the way, the parking 101 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: lot for that liquor store had four cops directing traffic 102 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: in it before New Year's Day. I like to sit 103 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 1: and watch people just try to park there because I'm 104 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: mean spirited. But I forgot we our first episode was 105 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,559 Speaker 1: on sparkling wine, and I got confused by the labels. 106 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm pretty sure it doesn't make any sense, 107 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: so it's got to be the one I don't think 108 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: it is. Would it be ridiculous to look up our 109 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: episode notes? Never? Never, I could just type it in 110 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: the internet, but no, I'll go back to the research, 111 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: back to your own research. Yeah, when you're actually making it. Um, 112 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: I like to add the juice to the glass and 113 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: then pour the sparkling wine on top of it because 114 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: the action of the bubbles kind of stirs it for you. 115 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: You don't have to mess with stirring it. Yeah, for 116 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: extra chill factor, chill the glass beforehand, or um add 117 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: an ice cube. No one's going to tell you not 118 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: to people then Yeah. Also, speaking about the price of 119 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: sparkling wines and what you're comfortable drinking on its own. 120 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: I found this New York Times article about champagne cocktails 121 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: and it recommended treading quote a middle path in quality 122 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: and price forty fifty bucks. And I was like, that's 123 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: your middle that's my goodness, my gracious. There are just 124 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: a number of different kinds of humans in this world. 125 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: There really are. That's yeah, that's true. I once spent 126 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: I bought a bottle. No, I didn't. I got someone 127 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: to buy me a bottle of could go. And then 128 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: I once spent on one glass of wine. But it 129 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: was a glass I've been meaning to try forever, and 130 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: I didn't order dinner. I was like, well, no food, 131 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: but I will take one glass. And I'm glad I 132 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: did drink responsibly. Yeah, I mean one glass. That's absolutely fine. 133 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: Spend your money on what you want variations of the boses. 134 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: There are so many of these. Yes, insert any fruit 135 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: juice variation here. Um At Mimosa Fest, you could go 136 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: up and you would say, like, I want pineapple juice, 137 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: mango juice. There are so many juices to put into 138 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: your mimosa, which then technically is it a mimosa, or 139 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: is it a different thing? Is it a balini? Perhaps 140 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: a balini which replaces the orange juice with peach juice. 141 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: Point seta, which is the holiday take with cranby ay juice. 142 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: You've got your grand mimosa with a dash of orange, 143 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: the curl of Valencia with apricot liqueur, Add a dash 144 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: of bitters, add a dash of an orange tomorrow, like 145 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: a kompari or april. If you're making one alcohol free 146 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: um with juice and sparkling water, I'd add like a 147 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: little bit of lime or lemon juice, and like a 148 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: half an ounce of simple syrup to help balance it out. 149 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe a pinch of salt even like 150 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: experiment seem like I like the idea of some salt 151 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: in there. Well, what about some amosa numbers? Apparently, as 152 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: of according to Google search data, the mimosa was the 153 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,599 Speaker 1: most popular cocktail in California, Maryland, North Carolina, and this 154 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: our home state of Georgia. Oh really, I don't know 155 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: what I would have thought it was, but I wouldn't 156 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: have said that momosa according to Google searches. I think 157 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: that the popularity of brunch has something to do with that. Yeah, 158 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: And speaking of brunch, let's talk about the bottomless mimosa. 159 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Uh yeah, these are if you've never 160 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: seen it advertised, this is a relatively popular thing that 161 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: is advertised on brunch menus like bottomless mimosa as many 162 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,119 Speaker 1: as you can put in your face for two hours 163 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: for only fifteen dollars, right. Yeah. Um. They are considered 164 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: a loss leader by the restaurants that offer them. They 165 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: are risking serving mimosas at or even below cost in 166 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: order to bring customers in and hopefully then make up 167 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: the difference on other menu items, either during that meal 168 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: or on repeat visits. Yeah. Um. I I will say 169 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: that I've noticed, as someone who's experienced many a bottomless 170 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: mimosa brunch, Um, I have noticed in the past couple 171 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: of years that it went from bottomless to like five 172 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: or you know, like there's a number attached to it now. 173 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: It used to be like, have at it, friends, But 174 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: then I supposedly realized I think friends had at it, 175 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: and I think we did. I was like, I must 176 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: get my money's and more, please leave. Yeah. Anecdotally, I 177 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: read that it might be more like business peer pressure 178 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: than actual business savvy or like any kind of like 179 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: noticeable like number profit that is making people offer bottomless mimosas, Like, well, 180 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: they're doing it. Heck, we've got to compete with them. Yeah, 181 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: and they're really only a thing in the United States, 182 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: Canada and the UK other places to have bottomless brunch. 183 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: But again, according to Google search data, like, there's not 184 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: that much buzz about bottomless mimosas. A. Yeah, I mean 185 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 1: it's fun. I have heard that, and I'm actually probably 186 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: this is totally true that you're getting like very weak mimosas. 187 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it's probably made with like Andrea, 188 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: which is fairly bottom of the barrel. I mean, yeah, 189 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: you're probably not getting a good sparkling wine, you're probably 190 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: not getting good orange juice, but it is bottomless. One 191 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: restaurant tour in Michigan reported to eat Her that she 192 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: cuts people off after eight glasses. Eight glasses, okay, that's 193 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: her number. But if it's okay, never mind, I'm trying 194 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: to game the system and I shouldn't. You don't. You 195 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: don't have to, you're doing just okay, uh, national most 196 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: a day is ma sixt Oh, that's nice, weather's all 197 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: spring and at least here in the Northern hemisphere. Um, 198 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: there's a Manhattan beer garden named hoff Brow Beer House 199 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: in New York City and it has a one hundred 200 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: ounce mimosa tower. Okay, I was curious about this. I 201 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: needed to look further into it, so I did. Have 202 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: you ever seen a beer tower? Yeah, yeah, it's it's 203 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: it's that, but they put mimosa in it. Um. You know, 204 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: it's a clear glass or plastic cylinder like three to 205 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: have feet tall, filled with beverage spiggott at the base. 206 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: And if you're bad at ounces like I am, a 207 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: single serving of mimosa's probably like six to eight ounces, 208 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: So a tower of this size has twelve to sixteen 209 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: servings or thereabouts. Enjoy with friends, Brian when Brian O'Connor, 210 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: writing for Extra Crispy, said of it, there are societal 211 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: obligations involved in finishing a hundred ounces of mimosa. The 212 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: novelty begins to fade somewhere near the bottom of the tower, 213 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: and your hopes and dreams become a scatter shot as 214 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: the trail of orange pulp left behind in the tube 215 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: of beverage above your table, one pour at a time, 216 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: but even as you feel your constitution fade, your determination increases, 217 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: you realize just how valuable your friends are, how much 218 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: you love them, and why they're the greatest. I love that. Yeah, 219 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: that sounds like the New Year to me. I know right, 220 00:13:54,400 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: I can capsulate. That's what happens. The Momosa perfect ink 221 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 1: for the new Year. It is. And we've got some 222 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: history for you. But first we've got a quick break 223 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes, 224 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: thank you. And since it's cocktail hour, it's time for 225 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: multiple legends of the who, what, when, where of the Mimosa. Yes, 226 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: there are a lot of them. There are. One version 227 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: goes that the Mimosa owes this existence to a drink 228 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: invented in nineteen one at the Bucks Club in London 229 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: called the Bucks Fizz by its inaugural bartender, Pat McGary. 230 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: It was a combination of orange juice and sparkling wine, 231 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: but the ratio was more skewed towards the sparkling wine 232 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: as opposed to the orange juice. Yeah, two parts sparkling 233 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: wine to one part juice. And Buck by the way, 234 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: refers to a family of drinks that calls for ginger 235 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: ale I did not know that. Yeah, and ginger ale 236 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: I think, meaning the alcoholic stuff, which, by the way, 237 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: has sometimes been called ginger champagne. That sounds so fancy, 238 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: I know champagne. Okay, So if we continue along with 239 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: this this story, then this drink went on to inspire 240 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: a bartender named Frank Meyer at the Ritz Hotel in 241 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 1: Paris to create a drink with equal parts orange juice 242 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: and sparkling wine. The mimosa. Yeah, juice of half of 243 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: an orange, an equal amount of sparkling wine, and an 244 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 1: ice cube. Oh. Originally came with a nice kid did yeah? 245 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: All right. A lot of drink historians doubt that Meyer 246 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: invented this drink. A recipe for the mimosa was in 247 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: his book of cocktails called The Oddestry of Mixing Drinks, 248 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: and the book contained three recipes. But yes, the mimosa 249 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: was in there. Each recipe that Meyer claimed to have 250 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: invented himself, though, came with a symbol featuring his initials 251 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: next to it, and no symbol appears next to the 252 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: entry for the mimosa. Yes, the first time a recipe 253 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: for the mimosa appeared in print, by the way, was 254 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: in Harry Craddocks nineteen thirties the Savoy Cocktail Book, and 255 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: I think it was called a Bucks Fizz in there 256 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: a Buck's Fizz. But in the London Observer cast out 257 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: on the origin of the buck Fizz story to um 258 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: quote one London club likes to regard this as a 259 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: specialty of the house and calls it Bucks Fizz. But 260 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: under its native name of Champagne Orange, it has been 261 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 1: drunk by many a Frenchman whom Bucks would blackball on site. 262 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: My goodness, and when I was thinking about it, it 263 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: does seem likely to me that the champagne orange, as 264 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: it was called, would have come from wine country, and 265 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: specifically champagne country in France. I mean, not necessarily, but 266 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: it makes sense. Makes sense, yeah, um bartenders that these 267 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: swankier establishments might have given them a new name, but 268 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: they had probably been enjoyed before then. As with many cocktails, 269 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: you know, somebody popularizes it and then they get all 270 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: the credit. That's an excellent phase, you just Meanwhile, the 271 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: ballini may have originated in the nineteen thirties in Venice 272 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: at a place called Harry spar I remember specifically the 273 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: first time I had a BILLIONI and I was in 274 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: New York and I was traveling with one of my 275 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: friends families and she has a you know, we've all 276 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: got one the really rich relative. In her case, it 277 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,239 Speaker 1: was her aunt and she lives in New York and 278 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 1: like she was so rich. She took us into Tiffany's 279 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: to look at that, like that was the place she 280 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: took tourists from nowhere, Georgia, let's go look at tiff 281 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 1: And we were like, we don't belong in here. We've 282 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: got to get out, shouldn't touch anything, And I said. 283 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: She was asking what everyone wanted to eat, and I 284 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: was like, pizza or New York and she gave me 285 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: this look like we're not going anywhere near what are 286 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: you talking about? So we went to this really nice 287 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: restaurant um on Central Park and I went to order 288 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: of Mimosa and she was like, you should get a 289 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: believing and I had no idea what it was, but 290 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, all right, this lady knows what she's talking. 291 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 1: I felt so fatcy. It was good and I wasn't paying, 292 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: so that was extra good. But we go back to 293 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: the Mimosa. It's popularity got a significant boost in the 294 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: United States during the nineteen sixties thanks to the British Royalty. Okay, 295 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 1: yeah sure. In one the Sydney Morning Herald reported quote, 296 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: the Royal family has begun a new fad and drinks. 297 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 1: Among London's fashionable mayfair set, the Queen, the Duke of 298 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 1: Edinburgh and the Queen Mother all have adopted a champagne 299 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: cocktail they call the mimosa. And then if they're doing it, yeah, 300 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: we gotta do it. And it's good enough for the 301 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: Queen Mother. I suppose it's good enough for me. Earl 302 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: mon Baton of Burma gets the credit for introducing the 303 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: Queen to the drink after a visit to France, and 304 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: it did not take long for the rest of the 305 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: royal family to start sipping mimosas. However, they weren't really 306 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: drinking it in the morning, but it was something that 307 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: they would enjoy before they sat down to dinner. As 308 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty five, food columnist Poppy Cannon wrote, even 309 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: in the most sophisticated quarters, you will be considered exceptionally 310 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: knowledgeable if you order a mimosa. Oh how times have change. 311 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 1: Mimosa has had another famous fan in director Alfred Hitchcock. 312 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: In a nineteen article in The London Express, the author 313 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: describes how when he arrived to interview Hitchcock, he was 314 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: quote in fine form, drinking mimosas. This article was reprinted 315 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: all over the United States, and when Hitchcock paid New 316 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: York a visit later that same year, after this article 317 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 1: had circulated, one observer wrote that he quote pause to 318 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: serve mimosa cocktails, a mixture of champagne and fresh orange juice. 319 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: When I first started research in this episode, one of 320 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,239 Speaker 1: the first things that came up, I think, because it's 321 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: funny story, lesson and then it's actually true. But that 322 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: was that he invented the mimosa in San Francisco in 323 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: the nineteen forties. And I find that highly highly unlikely, 324 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: But I did find that in more than one place. Yeah, again, 325 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: he probably just helped make it popular popular sure. Another 326 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: person who helped make it popular was Elizabeth Taylor, who 327 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 1: was said to have broken her fasts with bacon, eggs 328 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: and mimosas. Vanessa Redgrave also was described drinking mimosas during 329 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: her stay in New York, which an article described as 330 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: quote her pet mixture of bubbly and orange juice. French 331 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: actress Denise Darcel also spoke to the press about mimosas, 332 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: telling the Detroit Free Press in France, we drink mimosa. 333 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: Lots of star power behind this drink. Yeah yeah, all 334 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 1: of these names kept coming up, Mary and Davies, Trevor Howard, 335 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. And we talked in our episode 336 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: around Brunch about how celebrities helped put these drinks in 337 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: the zeitgeist as brunch drinks during Prohibition, when they wanted 338 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: to drink something in the morning in public that could 339 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: be mistaken for juice, not juice with some type of 340 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: alcohol and right, right, yeah, give me tomato juice with vodka. 341 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: It's a bloody Mary, thank you exactly, or yes, mimosas. 342 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: Another theory goes that perhaps the mimosa was invented by 343 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: an American film director for Marilyn Monroe in the nineteen forties. Again, 344 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: probably not, but she did like them and claimed to 345 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 1: drink them every morning. However, Americans largely took after the 346 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: Europeans at first, drinking mimosas in the evenings or even 347 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: in nightclubs. Quote the dancing crowd cool themselves off with 348 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: mimosas that is not what I want when I'm dancing. 349 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: I have done that before, back in my early college 350 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: and my my mimosa face, I was mimosas like at clubs. 351 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: What a fool anyway, Yeah, we all have to go 352 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: through that foolish drink stage. We do mine in bold 353 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: mud slides, and I have regrets. I I what did 354 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: I like White Russians drivers of mimosas well? Uh, while 355 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 1: we say thanks for being older and wiser. Now we're 356 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: going to take one more quick break for a word 357 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,719 Speaker 1: from our sponsor and come back with a little bit 358 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: more mimosa history, and we're back. Thank you sponsoring, Yes, 359 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 1: thank you. So Okay, how did the mimosa become a 360 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: brunch drink? This is a great question. It kind of 361 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: seems obvious because we talked about in our Orange episode 362 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: Orange juice is a breakfast associated share drink. But it 363 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: actually took a bit longer than I might have suspected. Anyway. Yeah. 364 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: As of a New York Times article in nineteen sixty six, 365 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: the Bloody Mary was the classic brunch cocktail. It did 366 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: say that the Bloody Mary had a number of unexpected competitors, 367 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: including everything from Double Martini's people got out to some 368 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: stuff in the sixties. Well, um to banana dacheries to 369 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: the champagne orange. Those are some unexpected contenders, I gotta say. 370 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: But if we trace back the mimosa to its brunch 371 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: roots in the United States, we find ourselves in New Jersey. 372 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we've so rarely found ourselves there. Yeah, 373 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: that's true. That's you know what it's about. Time it 374 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: was fall. An article from the Asbury Park Press's Nightlife 375 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: round Up summed up the journey of the mimosa Leslie. 376 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: It started as a favorite of the Caribbean jet set, 377 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: then hit elite New York clubs, and now it's featured 378 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: at the Shandy Pub Point Pleasant Beach. According to the 379 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: Shandy Pub, they introduced themsa into their brunch lineup for 380 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: folks that couldn't handle the rough stuff in the morning. 381 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: The practice spread slowly at first. In nineteen one, you 382 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: could find a champagne brunch at North Bergen's The Point 383 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: Cocktail Lounge, which did feature mimosas. And I gotta fill 384 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: up the scene here because when I hear The Point 385 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: Cocktail Lounge, I'm picturing kind of a you know, it's 386 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: going for something really classy, but it just doesn't succeed, 387 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Maybe this is correct. Then 388 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: The Point Cocktail Lounge was a football themed club decked 389 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: out with football helmet, lamp shades, and artificial turf. What 390 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: a mimosas That's great, isn't it. I want to go 391 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: to there. I do too, I when I read that, 392 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: because I was just kind of, oh, yeah, Point club. Whatever. 393 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, football lamp shades, ashtoe turf. I gotta 394 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: get there now. Okay, back to the sixties. Back to 395 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: the late sixties, early seventies. Note that this was the 396 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: arrow when brunch was becoming a thing in the United States. 397 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: Like social mora's were changing. Prior to the nineteen forties, 398 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: it was considered inappropriate for a woman to drink in 399 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: public or during the day at all, um, even in 400 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,959 Speaker 1: her own kitchen. By the nineteen sixties, brunch cocktails were 401 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: acceptable for everyone, and it was an era of great 402 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: economic growth for the middle classes. You know, like brunch 403 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: was rising up as this like bougie status thing, uh 404 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: in places like New York City for example, like a 405 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: CNB scene scene um or a relatively affordable indulgence um 406 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: see our Brunch episode much to do about brunch from 407 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: April of for more on all of that. Yes, the 408 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: brunch mimosa truly arrived in New York. By nineteen seventy seven. 409 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: A New York Times writer stopped at forty brunch blazes 410 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: and Manhattan as part of a piece she was working on, 411 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: and she wrote about some of her favorite drinks, including 412 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 1: quote that champagne and orange juice combination known as the 413 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: mimosa occasionally laced with brandy as well. M it's a 414 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 1: own this time that mimosas became more and more common 415 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: on brunch mean US a cross United States, it has 416 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: solidified its place among brunch drinks by the nineteen eighties, 417 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: And speaking of the eighties, if we go back to 418 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: the UK, the buck Fizz experienced a resurgence of popularity 419 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 1: during that decade thanks to the availability of pre mixed 420 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: bottles at supermarkets. Huh man, America has never really gotten 421 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: in on the whole pre mixed bottles of stuff thing. No, yeah, 422 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: every time I go to Europe and I'm like, wait 423 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: a minute, this is just a gin and tonic and 424 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: like a okay, sure. In two thousand nine, the Pantone 425 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: color of the Year was fourteen O eight for eight 426 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: called mimosa. No, you know, I didn't know this was 427 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: a thing until everybody made a big deal about it 428 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: this year. Oh yeah, no, it's great. I love color 429 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: and um that was a really basic thing to say, 430 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: hell out into a microphone. I love color. Um no, no, 431 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 1: what I do. I love discussion of color psychology and 432 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 1: in the fashion industry. I think it's super fascinating stuff. 433 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: And uh, mimosa was a or it still is. This bright, warm, 434 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: kind of egg yolky yellow meant to be hopeful and 435 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: radiant quote from their press release. And a time of 436 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount, and no 437 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow. I 438 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: have to think about that for a second. I guess. 439 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: So I suppose yeah, it's like a sun rising. Yeah, sure, sure, nice, 440 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: nice and bright? Yes, well, speaking of maybe not so bright, 441 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: speaking of hope and reassuring the bottomless mimosa. Oh goodness, Okay. 442 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: According to Google trends, we are living in the peak 443 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: popularity of bottomless mimosa, after its use as a search 444 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: term had been slowly increasing from the first pings in 445 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: January two thousand six. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. To be fair, 446 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: the Google Trends data only goes back to two thousand four, 447 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: and the way that people use searches certainly can mean 448 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: a lot of different things. But it's an interesting data 449 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: point that you could use as a discussion of how 450 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: people use the Internet to look for French specials or 451 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: how many people are serving bottomless but Mosa is either 452 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,360 Speaker 1: one or both. Bottomless brunch meanwhile, dates as far back 453 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: as Google Trends goes, and we are also living in 454 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: the peak of that. What a time to be alive. Indeed, yeah, 455 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: both really started picking up around I want to put 456 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: it in in here that for three days um in the 457 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: New York City Hospitality Alliance caused a mild panic when 458 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: it blogged about an obscure bit of legal code have 459 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: affected the bottomless Mimosa. As it turns out, the New 460 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: York State Liquor Authority technically prohibits unlimited drink specials spanning 461 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: a particular period of time for a fixed price. Oh no, 462 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: Twitter was mad. Twitter is always mad, But yeah, the 463 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: State Liquor Authority came to the rescue with a blessed 464 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: and appropriate haste They cited a subcode that allows bottomless 465 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: drinks to be sold during events. Oh so brunch is 466 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: an event? Yeah, I mean it is kind of if 467 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: you can get people together and then you got we 468 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: wait in line three hours, right, Yeah, that's an event. 469 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: It is. It is. And also, one Manhattan brunch spot 470 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: called Prana or Prana Perhaps was put on probation by 471 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: the local community board because of its bottomless mimosas, like 472 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: its customers were to unruly too frequently when they spilled 473 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: out of the restaurant into the surrounding neighborhood. And uh, 474 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: eventually the stores liquor license was suspended, and when they 475 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: finally got it back, they took bottomless mimosa is off 476 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: the menu. Well, it sounds like they learned their lesson, 477 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: you know, at least they didn't try again. Um. I 478 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not sure. I feel like, you know, 479 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: lessons being learned is great. It's part of me. That's like, 480 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,800 Speaker 1: what a beautiful, wonderful mess. It must have been just epic, 481 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: Like how bad did it have to have been to 482 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: get approbation. I'm kind of curious bottomless mimosa as. Yeah, yeah, 483 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: maybe one of our listeners will maybe they experienced this 484 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: this place. This has been a This has been a 485 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: fun episode. I I didn't realize any um memories. I 486 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: have most of them Harry Potter related um with the mimosa. 487 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: Me and my roommate used to watch Harry Potter movies 488 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: like two different years, um and we would drink mimosas. 489 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 1: And I actually rewatched all the Harry Potter movies this 490 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: year because I have this weird I have to watch 491 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: certain movies that have to be my last movie in 492 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: my first movie of the new year. And I did 493 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: it with the mosas. And I didn't even realize it 494 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: that I'm continuing this tradition. And we weren't together, but 495 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: we were like texting each other as we watched them together. Sweet. 496 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: It was great and I'm getting a little like, oh man, 497 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: those were fun times. I mean, I made some mistakes, 498 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: but they were fun times. Lessons, lessons being learned, yes, 499 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: on all around. But this brings us to the end 500 00:31:52,320 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: of this episode into the beginning of listen. Yes, Brittany wrote, 501 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: the reason I'm writing is that I'm reading through the 502 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: Little Book of Higga by Mike Wiking. Oh gosh, Danish 503 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 1: um and I came across a short passage about Danish 504 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: birthday celebrations. According to him, it is traditional at children's 505 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: birthday parties to create a kegman cakeman, which is like 506 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: a large gingerbread man made of sweet dough, decorated with 507 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: sweets and the Danish flag. Quote. Part of the tradition 508 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: is that the birthday boy our girl cuts the throat 509 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: of the cakeman while the other kids scream, which is 510 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,880 Speaker 1: the most metal thing I've ever heard. And it got 511 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: me thinking about birthday food traditions in other countries and cultures. 512 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: And I think it'd be such a fun topic for 513 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: you guys to do a deep dive in. Yes, that 514 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: is amazing that that took a turn right. I was 515 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: just like, oh birthday whoa? I am determined to learn 516 00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: more about this. Okay, cakeman, Cakeman. There's a you know, 517 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: like if you did always Sunny in Philadelphia, like Nightmare 518 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,240 Speaker 1: Day Man with cake make there's a song parody there, 519 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: just waiting, just waiting. Uh. In the meanwhile, Kevin wrote, 520 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thanks for getting to Latka's recently. 521 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: Listening to the episode filled me with memories of Hanaka 522 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 1: with my family and the plates piled high with Latka's. Lauren, 523 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 1: you are right on with the sour cream and apisace combo. 524 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: Thank you, though, to be honest, there is no wrong 525 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: way to latka. The twist on our family recipe was 526 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: that we also used some onions in with the potatoes. 527 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: I remember being about eight or nine when I was 528 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: able to take my turn on our big old hand 529 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: crank grinder that we used to process the onions and potatoes. 530 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: At the time, this was a step on par was 531 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,720 Speaker 1: sitting at the adult table. That grinder has been in 532 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,200 Speaker 1: the family for at least two generations before me, and 533 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: as time has passed, the grinder has passed to me. 534 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: Now it's my responsibility to make the latkas every year. 535 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm also excited to know that there will be a 536 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: fourth generation to pass it on to with my new daughter, 537 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: who celebrated her first Hanaka this year, and he included 538 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: a picture. Yeah and ah, congratulations. Yes, and that is 539 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: so sweet. I know, I love it. I love this, 540 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: the hand grinder being the equivalent of the yeah table. 541 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: Oh no, I see you. It's a They're they're cool 542 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,359 Speaker 1: little gidgets. I like them. Muh, I have so much, 543 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 1: so much to explore this world of Latka's very exciting. 544 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: Thanks to both of them for writing in. If you 545 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 1: would like to write to us, you can. Our email 546 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: is Hello at savor pod dot com. We're also on 547 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: social media. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and 548 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: Instagram at savor Pod. We hope to hear from you. 549 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,359 Speaker 1: Thank you as always to our superproducers Dylan Fagan and 550 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: Andrew Howard. 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