Posted on 06/08/2023 11:39:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
(Last Updated On: June 6, 2023)
NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY | JUNE 8
National Name Your Poison Day on June 8th places a few options before you and challenges you to choose. In this case, the idiom can be a cautionary one or it could be your bartender’s way of asking you what you want to drink.
#NameYourPoisonDay
Daily National Republican in Washington, D.C. reported in its March 24, 1864 edition, “The latest fashion in Washington of asking a party what they will take to drink is – ‘Please nominate your poison, gentlemen.’” The story made its rounds to newspapers across the country and by 1867 writers attributed the colloquial term to folks in Indiana.
While “nominate your poison” harkens back to the early days of the temperance movement, the phrase seems to have been used mostly to describe the action of ordering the drink. Even in 1914 as the mayor of New Bavaria, Ohio proposed a law requiring all drinkers to apply for drinking licenses, the phrase was popular. The phrase comes in many forms – pick, choose, or name – and of course nominate your poison.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY
Have you ever had a choice to make where no option seemed to point to a good outcome? Which poison did you pick? Decisions, decisions. We all have to make them. Share your decision-making skills by using #NameYourPoisonDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL NAME YOUR POISON DAY HISTORY
Our research was unable to locate the creator and the origin of National Name Your Poison Day.
The Herradura Rep is seriously underrated. Nice and smooth as a straight dram.
Not sure if I’ve had that. Mezcal, right?
Man are you behind the times! It’s now Fentanyl on the rocks 🤣
“Our research was unable to locate the creator and the origin of National Name Your Poison Day.”
The March 24, 1864, edition of the “Daily National Republican” newspaper in Washington, D.C., reported that the phrase, “Please nominate your poison, gentlemen,” was the latest way of asking what drink men would like to have.
Tangueray Gin & Tonic, w/ Lime Wedge.
Gin and Tonic.
Hold the Tonic.....................
When at Mount Vernon last year I picked-up a bottle of Madeira. It wasn’t half bad. For those of you unaware, Madeira is Wine fortified with Brandy.
Scotch, neat, and a cold Anchor Steam...
Ahh! Thanks for the info.
I wasn’t drinking until the late 70’s.
THUNDERBIRD,RIPPLE or NIGHTRAIN if you’re in a pinch
“Hold the Tonic.....................”
At 73, I’d be out-of-it after the first glass of 3-fingers Tangueray.
What can I say, I’m old school.
dirty double sapphire...
Shaken or stirred ?
...drink a lot of Myers, but have tried other dark rums usually with lime and tonic, nas drovia!
Myers is a nice dark rum, and I order that when it’s available, IF Zacapa or another dark isn’t available. Very reliable!
Top Shelf Vodka Martini, straight up. Dirty. Extra Olives.
Ever had a Snowshoe? It’s a shot of Brandy and a shot of Peppermint Schnaps on the rocks. Very warming in the winter months up here on The Frozen Tundra. Great in front of a roaring fire. ;)
Favorite ‘Supper Clubbing’ drink is an Old Fashioned, sweet, with Southern Comfort instead of Brandy. Olives. NO FRUIT!
Maybe I just like olives? LOL!
Everyone should read more Dorothy Parker!
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