I was wandering through Homesence, the Canadian version of the TJ Maxx Home store, when I saw a book on clearance that looked interesting. It was a small hardback called “Bloody Mary”, it was the drink story. Well, I hadn’t had one in years, they don’t really have them here, they have Cesar’s, which are made with clamato juice, and I don’t drink that.
My wife got excited and we decided to make some, and we determined by conjecture and then by a visit, that you can’t get the drink mix here. You can, of course, get tomato juice, which we did, and prepared it with all the other needed ingredients, but there was no Mr. and Mrs. T etc., the kinds of prepared mixes we all know and love.
The next week, my daughter’s high school English teacher had a trivia quiz, and asked if anyone knew what cocktail was made with vodka and tomato juice. She assumed the kids wouldn’t know it because it was a cultural anomaly, and she was surprised when my daughter knew the answer, she was the only one who did.
Later on, we went to the States and bought Mr. and Mrs. T. We told the story, at my cousin’s house, and she came running out of a back room with a big Bloody Mary gift box. It contained mix, glasses and glass stirrers. She had won this box and didn’t know what to do, so she gave it to us.
In D.C., while reading Bon Appetite magazine, Sandy read an article recommending the book, “Bloody Mary”, as a good resource.
There is some sort of a pattern here. So sit back and have a Bloody Mary for us…..
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