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A drink for the season
By adamg on Tue, 10/04/2016 - 2:06pm
With Hurricane Matthew possibly, maybe, showing up on our doorsteps at 8 a.m. on Sunday (hmm, would that make it Matty in the Morning?), Karen Grant has come up with an appropriate drink, the Cone of Probability:
Dark chocolate ice cream, Bailey's, Kahlua, and vodka (perhaps in caramel or vanilla). Whirl in blender. Garnish with shaved white chocolate and pieces of waffle cone for dipping/scooping. Alternatively, add club soda to your desired consistency, and serve with one of those chocolate-lined cookie straws.
Would go perfect with French toast, no?
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Way too sweet for me
But, ice cream, cone, it works.
In a related matter
I'm running a statistical analysis of the likelihood of swinging one's hand at random and encountering an object of sufficient mass as to produce an audible stimulus. By calculating the likelihood of creating a sound of one hand clapping, I will have created
The Koan of Probability.
If you don't like the super sweet, how about his
I call it the Extratropical:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 1 oz pure cranberry juice, 1 oz maple syrup +1 oz water (or 2 oz Sugar Maple Liquor), 3oz Old Ipswich Tavern Style Rum. Shake or stir, as you like. Strain into a chilled tumbler full of ice. Garnish with a slice of apple.
You could also use seltzer instead of the water, but add it at the end for a bubblier punch.
I'm sure Haitians would love
I'm sure Haitians would love it. You're just all class....
Oh, good point
Perhaps you can tell us which charity you contributed to to help the Haitians?
Second Collection
I can't say what specific foundations I've donated to to help Haiti, but I do know that there were several collections at mass that I donated to that were said to have gone to help the people of Haiti. I guess that counts. I hope the needy people there got the money.
Dear Moral Scold Concern Troll
Creative mixology has what to do with Haiti, again?
Moreover, you do understand that it IS possible to name drinks for destructive weather systems AND still care about other places and their misfortunes (and even do things about that, too) ... and that some of us here actually get involved in such efforts?
Right?
But, hey, you scolded someone on the internet and that is the SAME as working to prevent a cholera outbreak that could kill hundreds, mostly kids. Hooray for you!
A good place to donate if you really want to help
Actually, Doctors Without
Actually, Doctors Without Borders has too much overhead, contributing to a lesser amount of your donation going to the cause. Please educate yourself further on the matter at https://www.charitywatch.org/home
Save the Children and Catholic Relief Services would be better options for your donations in this matter
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-help-haiti-victims-after-hurricane-matthew-do...
Citations, please
Citations, please.
what
The poster put the citations right in the post.
Your perception of Doctors Without Borders is inaccurate
I went to your linked page and looked it up. (Thank you for providing that link!)
Charity Watch gives Doctors Without Borders an A rating: https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/doctors-without-borders...
But, hey, if donating to medical care and illness prevention isn't your thing, those other listed charities are probably just fine, too.
CRS has an A+ rating as
CRS has an A+ rating as opposed to simply A.
Save the Children has an $8 cost to raise $100, as opposed to DWB's $12. They both have similar A ratings.
But hey, if donating to help children in need isn't your thing, no problem.
Plenty of need
No reason to get nit picky.
Medical clinics have more overhead by nature because of their complex administrative demands, and their workers are very highly skilled. It isn't volunteer work or shipping food around.
In the end, it isn't a competition. Sadly, Haiti needs all of it on a good day.
Aahahahahaha
Thanks, Sally Struthers. Next can you tell us about the medicinal value of healing? Meanwhile, I'll be over here with the rest of the civilized world, supporting doctors who know what they're doing to go into places that would otherwise lack modern medical care.
Did you read your link?
Charity Watch considers it a top rated charity, with an overhead of 13%, with Save the Children's at 11% and Catholic Charities' at 10%. Yes, 13% is more than 11%, but it is not "too much."
Doctors Without Borders is very open about how it uses donations.
Lambi Fund
Which is noteworthy because they work on reforestation - which could help lessen the impact of future storms.
Ounce of prevention
Or better stated an ounce of not being an asshole.
How about we keep all our aid and conscience-assuaging, useless charity and actually stop fucking with that country. There's a reason they're so buggered and it's got nothing to do with the natural disasters/environment -- maybe if we got out troops out of there, stopped interfering in their elections and stopped ramming trade agreements down their throats that result in sweatshops and total labor exploitation so we can have cheap underwear they might actually be able to build up an infrastructure to survive these events.
Hey! What's this soap box doing under my feet?
Or maybe this
A friend's recipe. She calls it "Makin' Bacon"
11/4 ozs Bacon Bourbon (if this offends your sensibilities just use plain, ole bourbon)
1 oz St. Germain or other Elderberry liqueur
1 oz fresh lemon juice (I just use juice of one lemon)
1/2 oz maple syrup
1/2 oz water
1 egg white (separate your own egg or buy pasteurized whites from the dairy case if you're worried about salmonella)
Dash of bitters
Shake well with ice. Strain into a tumbler. Garnish with an orange slice and a rasher of applewood smoked bacon (cooked of course). I've served it for brunch so can vouch that it goes very well with FrenchToast.
That's nice
Good to see we're partying and naming drinks for the furious weather phenomenon that is turning the lives of some of the world's poorest people upside down. If you have experienced the ravages of a hurricane first hand, I'm sure you'd be the first one to call me callous if you found out I was naming drinks for it and using it as an excuse to get loaded. Stay thirsty, my insensitive friends.
You bear such a heavy burden
How do you stand being angry so much? Almost everything I post seems to annoy you.
Yes, what is probably happening in Haiti is horrible. I write about the storm not to make fun of Haitians but because it might hit us (you know, the local angle). And if it does, it could be bad here, too (if nowhere as bad as Haiti). You can laugh or you can cry. I choose the former, even as I realize a tree could fall on our house. You've made your choice, I guess.
Shoe on the other foot
I seem to get the same treatment from you. You're a fault-finder regarding many of my posts. Guarantee if I started this one, you'd be lecturing me about my callous behavior. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
Don't dish it out?
Oh, pshaw.
Gaffin, you delicate flower!
I had no idea. Can your even go back to Brooklyn?
Oh, you know the answer to that
You can never go back home, especially not to Brooklyn, at least not until you're dead, which, last I checked, I'm not.
Who will donate?
I do wonder if it will be bad here, how many countries will line up to donate or even offer moral support.
Why?
We are in the wealthiest area of the wealthiest country in the world. We also have a very well developed emergency management system for acute events like this one. We should be able to cope with this.
Also note: Canada frequently helps out during epic storms with heavy equipment and utility workers, and we do the same for them. The power outages after the ice storms in 2008 would have lasted much longer if it weren't for all the lineworkers who came down from Quebec and the Maritimes to help.
soap box part2
already squawked about this above, but our "aid" in Haiti has been overrun by the US military for less than charitable purposes. The "soft" hand of USAID and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) has been substituted with the fist of SouthCom since the last couple of emergency events down there. The best course of action is for us to keep our fucking charity. (Canada - in places like Haiti - ain't much better...but not military - just direct business exploitation as well as the non-profit industrial complex).
I'm going to call you despicable
You are preaching about "appropriate things to say" and policing expression.
Meanwhile, you are sitting on your dead ass at a computer and not doing anything about the poor people in Matthew's path - either after the storm or all those years before it.
After all, it is bad thoughts and naming drinks for storms and not years of colonial oppression and marginalization and racism that cause these poor people to be vulnerable to predictable disasters.
We're in New England
We get to have hurricane parties and can come up with names. We get hit by them too.
Nobody is talking about slamming down Baby Docs with a chaser.
Lighten up, Francis.
My thoughts (and a few bucks) are with Haiti.
What else can be done?
Hurricane
I guess a classic New Orleans style Hurricane is not creative enough?
2 ounces light rum
2 ounces dark rum
2 ounces passion fruit juice
1 ounce orange juice
Juice of half a lime
1 Tablespoon simple syrup
1 Tablespoon grenadine
Orange slice and cherry for garnish