Talk:Sombrero (cocktail)

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Is this actually a cocktail...

...or just a mixed drink? Does a cocktail have to be made with a distilled spirit? Should this go on Hayford's cocktail list? Aleta Curry 01:39, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

It looks to me as if a cocktail is something that is drunk *before* a meal. Or at a cocktail party. When do you drink a Sombrero? Before a meal? Late at night in a bar? Granted, "cocktail" is a slippery term.... Hayford Peirce 23:03, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

I want to stress something extremely important for a minute. I know some of us here are drinkers, so my question is: where are the photos?? --Robert W King 23:05, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

Hard to track down, but I'm working on it. If I had my digital camera handy I would take photos of a King Alphonse and post them.... Hayford Peirce 23:21, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

I was implying the D-I-Y route, because after all, why would you just make a drink for the purposes of photographing it and then toss it down the drain? Consumption is 90% of the fun. --Robert W King 23:23, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

More like 110%, I would say.... Hayford Peirce 23:38, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

Don't get me wrong Hayford--I am not encouraging anyone to drink (after all there are legal ramifications behind that), but I am alluding to something... --Robert W King 23:39, 5 September 2007 (CDT)

Going back to Hayford's first posted reply--yes, my understanding is the same as yours: cocktails are drunk before meals or at cocktail parties (which seem to have gone the way of all flesh; my parents used to go to cocktail parties often, but I don't). However, I seem to recall reading somewhere that in order to be properly called a cocktail a drink has to be contain at least one distilled (clear?) spirit. 'Course, this could just be something someone made up; but I know I've read it, because that's the way my brain works.... Aleta Curry 17:13, 6 September 2007 (CDT)