Beverage architecture

[paulzjoh]

I was a full time bartender in the late 60s, in Chicago  and "build" was
common then

Laurence Horn wrote:

> At 7:52 AM -0800 1/25/05, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
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>> Never heard that.
>> Fritz J
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>>>>>  neil at TYPOG.CO.UK 01/25/05 01:36AM >>>
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>> As a Limey I'd get you a drink, make you a drink or fix you a drink (the
>> latter if I used more than one component).
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>> Just when did Americans begin to build drinks? Not only build them,
>> but also
>> repair/rebuild them!
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> very odd.  in the old days, refreshing them was enough.  Well, this
> way it does sound as though we're burning more calories when we do
> it--"The snow was too deep to go out to exercise, but I worked out
> rebuilding my drinks."
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> larry
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>> 'She sipped at the repaired drink with pleasure...'
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>> 'His own drink was almost gone so he rebuilt it.'
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>> -Marty Machlia, 'Electric Swap', Greenleaf Classics, San Diego, 1970,
>> 130
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