Discussion for article #231462
Someone should punch them in the lip for that beet juice nonsense too. That sounds absolutely disgusting and a crime against bourbon.
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“She thought the word just meant separation and did not understand the connotation and historical significance.”
Sounds like many of the dumb bastards, all with degrees, I worked with over the years.
They spend 4 yrs at a university and manage to know nuttin’
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Double like. Trying to put that in my bourbon is a great way to lose teeth.
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This reminds me of a girl I knew many years ago who told her Mom Stevie Wonder’s song “Part Time Lover” was “Apartheid Lover.” She was aghast that the radio stations would play such a horrible song. We clued her in a few minutes later.
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Israel distills vodka?!
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Seriously…I’ll even use frozen grapes or frozen stainless steel ball bearings just so it doesn’t get watered down by melting ice cubes.
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How universal was use of the term Apartheid? By which I mean was it the same word used in most languages for the segregated system in South Africa or did different languages use different terms? Presumably the person making the decision isn’t a native English speaker so if they used a different term in Icelandic for what we call Apartheid I wonder if that could have been part of the mix up.
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Zing!
Ahh, a typical undereducated American that is PROUD of it.
You DO know that they don’t speak English in Iceland, besides to tourists? And African Apartheid has been out of the news for over a decade - and as Iceland never had slavery it isn’t something that really occurs in it’s history classes.
So rather than being an overeducated “dumb bastard”, it is much more likely that it is a 20-something, probably beautiful (because most Icelandic chics are hotter than hell, as I have found on my two visits there) hotel worker or bartender that is studying English as a second language and hasn’t read anything about what outrages used to exist in warmer parts of the world . And she came across the English dictionary translation of “apartheid” - which does mean separation - and thought that would make a cool drink name.
But I am still rolling on the floor at your outrage against college education. I present it as point number 1 as to why China overtook America as the richest country in the world this past year - because they are killing themselves to get as many college degrees as humanly possible, and yet so many Americans would rather disdain them. And THAT is how you piss away an empire…
Iceland is like a Supermodel Farm, so I’m tempted to forgive any language gaffs. The only hitch is they all speak English better than everyone on my block, including me. So I’m not buying that they didn’t know what Apartheid meant.
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No No No. Apartheid is an Afrikaans word (not Engrish) meaning “apart-ness” or “separateness”. It sort of can’t refer to anything else. It can be used to specifically refer to that segregation system or sometimes in a more general way to refer to segregation in general. The poor dear is probably young and woefully ignorant and it’s forgivable on that level (if true), but I tend to think that Icelandia is making shit up.
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Meh, nothing wrong with using Bourbon in cocktails assuming you are using the right type of Bourbon, something middle of the road, not so cheap that it is basically lighter fluid nor anything high end enough that the complexities would be wasted.
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Frozen grapes. Slice it first and let it soak up some of the bourbon. I’ll have to try that.
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I dunno. “Apartheid” isn’t a term of abuse, even in its political sense. It’s a neutral term for an immoral social system. It’s also, of course, an awfully weird thing to call a cocktail. But I don’t really see why someone should be offended, rather than, say, baffled.
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I assume the ingredients don’t mix which would make it an instant favorite with racists.
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That’s a Mondegreen, so is “Surely good Mrs. Murphy will follow me all the days of my life.”
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I guess that was kind of what I was trying to get at. I knew the word is an Afrikaans word that means “separateness” that has come to used as a term for the segregation system in South Africa, sort of like Holocaust was a term for a burnt sacrifice that has come to be used as a term for the Nazis’ various genocides.
What I was wondering, not being old enough to know how the terminology was used in different countries at the time, was how universal that usage of the term was or if someone speaking a different language might be use to using a different name for the system of segregation in South Africa and might have honestly been confused by the words literal meaning.
I take it from your response that that wasn’t the case and that the term Apartheid was used the same pretty universally regardless of language. Which makes this more of a screw up, because even if the person who came up with the name was unaware of the racial implications of the word, you would think someone between that person and the material being printed would have been aware of it.
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Why use roasted hazelnuts that give nothing to the alcohol content when Frangelico is available? I will not stand for this alcohol abuse!
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