Injecting oranges with alcohol goes back at least to when Rutherford P. Hayes was President. First Lady Lucy Hayes was known as “Lemonade Lucy” after she decreed that no alcoholic beverages would be served in the White House during her husband’s administration.
For four years there was a steady traffic in rum-filled oranges smuggled into the WH during official functions.
Anyway, I enjoy a drink as much as anyone but I wait until the day is over and survival instincts don’t need to be at their sharpest. Drinking during the day? Yuk!!
Did you happen to see the new Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition? There was an interesting bit about illicit liquor deliveries to the U.S. Capitol Building.
(insert Captain Renault pic here)