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.
To paraphrase a quote and tailor it to suit my own taste:
100-proof women, 101-proof bourbon, ‘n’ 24-carat gold...
I like my bourbon with mango nectar... and I don’t know why that is.
“Top Shelf Vodka Martini, straight up. Dirty. Extra Olives.”
Perfect, although I haven’t had any in years. When I did, that was what I ordered.
I always call my poison Bob.
It’s all at my house! ;)
What’s your favorite vodka?
Tee many Martoonies!.....................
It was recommended by a coworker in Mexico. She said it was her father’s favorite. She also gave a warning about drinking too much, too quickly. Wise advise.
I am partial to Tito’s and Kettle One. ;)
I knew there was a reason I liked you! :)
Thanks, I’m always trying to figure out if there’s a vodka that I can tolerate. Haven’t tried Kettle One, yet, but someone else told me they like that, too. Grey Goose works, but it seems to be a bit pricey. (Probably no pricier than the rums I drink, though, so I should give vodka another shot.)
And please tell me, what does “dirty” mean? My MIL likes hers “neat” and I think that means plain, right?
‘Neat’ means no ice in the drink. You can put ice in the shaker to cool it, or chill the glass, but no ice in the drink.
‘Dirty’ is just adding a splash of green olive juice to the Martini.
Thank you, I know I should know this by now. My only experience with vodka really comes through my in laws. The stuff my FIL drank while he was alive was probably the cheapest stuff he could find to stretch his dollars. I don’t remember the brand, but it tastes like I think lighter fluid would taste if I ever wanted to drink that. No thank you! I made some lemon verbena liqueur a few years ago with some Grey Goose, and that was very nice as a sipper.
Dad drank whiskey, bourbon, or sometimes beer, and often wine. Mom barely drank at all, just a sip here or there. I, on the other hand, have always enjoyed rum mostly, whiskey or bourbon next, and wine sometimes, too. I hate beer but my hubby loves it. I learned fairly early that I can’t tolerate gin or tequila at all. They throw a punch at me. I rarely had martinis so don’t really know much about them at all. Thanks for giving me a little lesson. I may have to try vodka that way sometime just to broaden my horizons.
I was partial to Grey Goose, although I’m not sure if that’s top shelf. “Grey Goose martini, up.” My sister likes the fru-fru martinis — key lime, watermelon, etc., but they’re not for me.
The tag on my Harley says POISON.
/long live Alice
I worked with two women that would ‘blend their own’ fruity beer when we met for Happy Hour on Fridays after work.
They would take two of the flavored beers, and combine them into one way-too-sweet, undrinkable (by me) ‘masterpiece,’ LOL!
Hard pass!
“Mom barely drank at all, just a sip here or there.”
Dad always called Mom ‘Two Beers Benny’ as she hated beer and wasn’t a drinker, either.
She will have wine at the holidays and she will have an Old Fashioned when we’re out Supper Clubbing. We’re currently working our way around the state for ‘research purposes’ only! ;)
An Old Fashioned is a ‘Wisconsin Thing’ but you can usually find someone to make you one in the Midwest by now. Lots of variations on the subject, but the original, with Whisky is a classic.
https://makemeacocktail.com/blog/the-history-of-the-old-fashioned/
Dad’s two favorite drinks were an Old Fashioned and a Manhattan. I learned how to do both at a fairly early age. Instead of lemon, it was usually an orange peel that we used since those were readily available.
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