Who Is to Blame for the 7 and 7 Cocktail?

American Spectator ^ | June 8, 2017 | Kevin Kosar

[Twotone]

The American Spectator’s Kevin Kosar badgers the Toronto writer Adam McDowell.

Kevin Kosar: Congrats on the publication of Drinks: A User’s Guide (Tarcher, 2016). It’s a smart-looking book, and I enjoyed it. So how’s the weather in Minnesota?

Adam McDowell: It’s lovely, there are Canadian flags everywhere, people being very polite to each other.

Kosar: Wait…. you’re a Canadian? In Canada?

McDowell: Yes, born and raised in Toronto.

Kosar: Why?

McDowell: I’ve never had a doctor’s bill in my life. That’s explanation enough.

Kosar: As a Canadian, I trust you consume barbarous quantities of drinks like Yukon Jack, Canadian Club, Molson, and Moosehead, right?

[Twotone]

Just for fun on a Saturday evening...

[unixfox]

7 & 7 got really popular after Tony ordered them in Saturday Night Fever.

[MGG]

A friend of mine told me she answered how much is 7 and 7 by saying $2.50. The teacher asked why she answered that way. She said at her family’s bar a 7 and 7 is $2.50. This was true.

[Twotone]

I liked the part about the ‘ad-hoctail.’ My preferred drink has always been some standard liquor (whiskey, gin, etc.) with whatever liqueur I had on hand. No need for anything terribly fancy.

[Will88]

Seagrams 7 and Seven Up? Probably the first mixed drink I ever heard of or tried back in the ‘60s.

[ClearCase_guy]

Back when I leaned toward this sort of thing, I preferred a Jack & Ginger.

Now I mix classic cocktails and the occasional tiki drink. But quite often a simple scotch on the rocks is fine.

[dainbramaged]

Mac (MacNaughton’s) and water here, please. Or maybe some Hennessy VSOP cognac with a cigar the size of a chair leg.

[suthener]

I drank 7 and 7 because they were easy to order after I got drunk.

[doorgunner69]

Never forget the smell of the guy in the bunk above me barfing his guts out down to the deck. That smell and a stream of vomit streaming past me will be seared on my mind forever.

[Ouderkirk]

Up here it’s BV (Black Velvet) and ginger.

[Dawgreg]

I don’t know who’s responsible for it, I’m just glad they did. My favorite drink!

[Dawgreg]

But quite often a simple scotch on the rocks is fine.

Blaaaah......that’s what my Hub likes. I can drink a beer (which I hate) better than one swig of scotch.....;)

[hold_muh_bier]

7&7 is a vile drink, on a par with rum & Coke; it's what newly-minted adults order on their 21st birthdays because it's full of soda pop and *sounds* grown up. (Then later it gets thrown up.)

[Georgia Girl 2]

My college roommate always drank 7 and 7. I like the taste of alcohol so I quickly gravitated from mixed drinks to cocktails as they are all alcohol.

A couple of years ago I read an obscure novel entitled “John’s Eight.” The lead character was a cocktail afficianado so at the beginning of each chapter there was a gourmet cocktail recipe. I got hooked on Manhattan’s with rye and still use the recipe.