001: Mix a Long Island Iced Tea

To kick off my new habit of doing 1 Interesting Thing each day, I chose something that would steel my resolve. I was going to mix and drink a Long Island Iced Tea, a cocktail known for its high alcohol content. 

Ingredients
Vodka
Gin
Bacardi
Cointreau
Lemon juice
Soda

I don't have a jigger for measures, so I put my glass on a digital scale and poured until each shot was 20g. The Absolut and Sapphire were fine, but the Bacardi got away on me and I ended up with 40g. OK, maybe more. The Cointreau and lemon juice were delivered judiciously, which left only the soda.

Well, really it's meant to be cola based on the recipe I was working from (and tequila, the omission of which some would regard as a travesty) but I didn't have any, so I used L&P. This is a New Zealand soft drink which is made from the pure natural spring water of Paeroa. Or it used to be pure until I peed in it when I was 12.

We were on a class trip and I asked if we could go swimming. The teacher told me no. I went rock-hopping along the river and pretended to almost fall in. Then I did it again, and then I fell in. "Oh no, look what I did, by accident." 

Anyway, long story short, I peed, the water downstream was drawn and used for something people pay money to drink. And now some of that is in my Long Island Iced Tea and therefore inside me. The circle of life is complete. (Or maybe I've just swallowed 100ml of hard liquor and feel more expansive than usual.) 


Also when I was young I thought 'booze' was written 'boos' and was the opposite of 'yays.'

I wasn't a very streetwise child.