Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
:

> Aussie > wrote:
>
>>Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
m:
>>
>>> Aussie > wrote:
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Should be interesting in the Tom Collins I'm going to make shortly
:-)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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'.
>>
>>
>>
>>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.



Jim, recently you have counselled people (including myself) on everything
from post content to .sig's.

Taking the original content of the post (about cocktails) 'off topic' and
adding racial slurs which you then try to pass off as "humour" is not
warranted, so I would appreciate it in future if you stuck to the subject
at hand. Thank you.




> You
> are making a *dark* Tom. One that is not traditional.. . . .




Nope, I made a traditional Tom Collins with a sugar syrup that was yellow
in colour...... it has the same hue as a 15yo Riesling.



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



It did, and it is.




--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

"The joys of the table belong equally to all ages, conditions, countries
and times; they mix with all other pleasures, and remain the last to
console us for their loss."
Jean Antheleme Brillet-Savarin,