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US bars are mixing peas, carrots, artichokes, beets, and even KALE into vegetable-flavored cocktails
Daily Mail ^ | 2 January 2018 | Carly Stern

Posted on 01/02/2018 11:02:44 AM PST by mairdie

Adults are advised to get in four to five servings of vegetables every day — but no one ever never they can't be in liquid form. Or mixed with tequila.

Some might wonder why anyone would ruin a perfectly good shot of vodka or rum with something green and healthy. But skilled bartenders all over the world have the answer, and are finding creative ways to sneak in those vitamins and minerals all the while getting their customers tipsy.

This isn't just about adding a splash of tomato juice in a Bloody Mary or garnishing a Gibson with an onion. Mixologists are using everything from peas, artichokes, and kale to carrot juice and beet juice in drinks, and FEMAIL has rounded up some of the most interesting options around the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: alcohol; cocktails; spacealiens; vegetables
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To: gunnyg; mairdie

They made me quit drinking 20 years ago.

Bums me out just a little that I missed the great wave of microbrews and so on, and also hard stuff like Absolute and Bombay Sapphire.

Oh well more to spend on guns....


41 posted on 01/02/2018 4:22:32 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Moonman62

No Coke. PEPSI!


42 posted on 01/02/2018 5:10:42 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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