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Default When making a sugar syrup for Tom Collins'....

Aussie > wrote:

>Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
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>> Aussie > wrote:

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>>>>>Should be interesting in the Tom Collins I'm going to make shortly :-)
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>>>> I don't know how this will translate to Australian-- but perhaps
>>>> you're making an 'Uncle' Tom Collins.


>> Didn't think it would translate.<g> In USA'n, an 'Uncle Tom' is a
>> black American who is perceived to be betraying his race by sucking up
>> to 'the white man'. The term comes from the book Lincoln credits
>> with starting our civil war- "Uncle Tom's Cabin'.

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>I have to ask........ what the *hell* has that got to do with making a Tom
>Collins???


Guess it was a worse attempt at a humorous name than I had feared. You
are making a *dark* Tom. One that is not traditional.. . . .

Oh well-- it probably tastes good & that is really all that matters.

Jim