1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

The Confradiction 1 barspoon sugar

Yi lemon—juice only 1 jigger rye whiskey Mix in a barglass. Fill with cracked ice. Clap on the shaker dnd shake vigorously before straining into a cocktail glass. This is the drink a Frenchman had in mind when he walked into a New Orleans cocktail lounge and said to the man behind the bar: ^Mix for rne, sil vous plait, a contradictions." which? demanded the puzzled barkeep. ^^e great Am^ricain drink—a contradictions." Never heard of it, mister . . . how's it made?" You use whiskee to make eet strong; water to make eet weak; lemon juice to make eet sour, an' sugar to make eet sweet, explained the French visitor. "Zen you say: Here to you, an' you drink eet yourself! Zat, sar, ees zee contradictions." Whereupon the barkeep mixed the drink-which you will have no difficulty in recognizing as the old reliable time-tested Whiskey Sour.

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