{"id":224,"date":"2015-05-16T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-05-16T02:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T06:01:47","slug":"this-wonderful-little-cocktailmicroaggression-against-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/05\/16\/this-wonderful-little-cocktailmicroaggression-against-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"This Wonderful Little Cocktail\/Microaggression Against Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might know “hanky panky” as some kind of fuddy-duddy phrase last heard on Benny Hill or something starring Richard Dawson, god rest his soul. Well, it’s also a cocktail<\/a>. (Interestingly, there’s a short link between “hanky panky” and some old-school anti-Catholic sentiment in England<\/a>; in essence it goes some shit in Latin mass to “hocus pocus” to “hanky panky.”)<\/p>\n

The apocryphal story goes that some old British actor, looking for a cocktail with some “punch,” whatever that means, found this and called it “the real hanky-panky,” which isn’t really connected at all to the original trickeration connotation or the modern sexcentric meaning. I guess it’s like calling something “the shit,” or even [trying to come up with a phrase like “the shit” but being too inartful in googling it then getting stuck in an eddy of Urban Dictionary so we’ll leave this as a truly inartful placeholder until something comes to mind].<\/p>\n

So anyway, the Hanky Panky, which I discovered in the PDT book (page 138) but which is jacked from Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book<\/em>, goes like this: 8 parts gin, 6 parts sweet vermouth and 1 part Fernet-Branca. I wish I could remember what it tasted like but that was too long ago now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might know “hanky panky” as some kind of fuddy-duddy phrase last heard on Benny Hill or something starring Richard Dawson, god rest his soul. Well, it’s also a cocktail. (Interestingly, there’s a short link between “hanky panky” and some old-school anti-Catholic sentiment in England; in essence it goes some shit in Latin mass to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-fernet-branca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}