Comments on: Cocktails…

By: Alexis Leon

Alexis Leon — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:59:02 +0000

Yes it was fun. Arasumoodu Toddy shop was left alone as it requires a separate post. Nadar, Kadrar and Koodar also deserve special mention. I used to live on the steam cakes (puttu) from Nadar for months.

By: paappaan

paappaan — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:16:48 +0000

Alexis, thanks for bringing back the memories of CET and the bucket parties. Fun, wasn’t it? Arasummoodu, Sreekaryam, Nadar, Kadar, Koodar… Nostalgia…

By: Alexis Leon

Alexis Leon — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:44:00 +0000

Thanks Geo for your cocktail. But now I don’t drink. Stopped some 10 years back.

Yes, they were called bucket parties, as most people used buckets for mixing the cocktail.

But I never could get used to the idea of mixing the drinks in a bucket, so we bought a steel container, usually used for storing water—the cylindrical shaped one with a tap at the bottom. When there were no parties, we used it for storing drinking water.

By: Geo

Geo — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:05:48 +0000

Btw,
this was what u MH-ites used to call Bucket Parties… rite?

By: Geo

Geo — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:05:15 +0000

Guroo,

Insightful… and highly educating….

You take lessons?

I have a combination using which i manage to get ‘looks’ from waiters.
“I large vodka, 1 pepsi”

The waiter will be like, “Sir… what abt Sprite”, thinking this is my first time….
But then I manage to get ‘looks’ of some other kind when I say my “Fifth repeat” for the same :_))

By: silverine

silverine — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 07:35:36 +0000

This was an absorbing account. Interesting how organized you all were in your drinking parties. It must taken years of practise to perfect the concoction and hold such parties without getting into trouble. Great post.