Okratini?

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:42 PM -0400 10/20/07, Amy West wrote:
>Has Barry looked into this alleged okratini?

I thought I'd invented the word (not to mention the concept), but it
turns out not so, as I learned from (who else?) Barry.  From the
archives:

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:04:46 -0400
To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Okratini (1971)

At 1:43 PM -0400 8/21/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>OKRATINI
>
>    Larry once posted about this drink.
>    I went through about 75 hits for "cocktail" and "inventor" or "invented."
>There were no big surprises, but I did come up with the "Okratini" and the
>"Cocktail Suit."
>
>
>    18 March 1971, COSHOCTON TRIBUNE (Coshocton, Ohio), pg.7B, col. 5:
>    In New York, a Tex-Mex restaurant has invented a cocktail called the
>"okratini."  Essentially it's a martini, but is served with a pickled okra pod
>instead of an olive.
>
I can't believe it.  Scooped by the Coshocton Trib!  Well, it's good
to know, before I applied for a patent.  Thanks, Barry.

--Larry, who was drinking okratinis in the 60's in L.A. but never got
written up in Coshocton.

P.S.  I wonder what they mean by "essentially".  Of course, an *echt*
okratini requires not just any old pickled okra pod, but one from a
jar of Talk O' Texas HOT Crisp OKRA PICKLES (look for the cowboy and
lasso on the label).


>
>I am another Northerner in the pro-okra contingent.
>
>---Amy West
>
>>Date:    Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:24:49 -0400
>>From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: "I ate so much okra I slid out of bed!" (1930s? East Texas?)
>>
>>At 10:10 PM -0300 10/18/07, David A. Daniel wrote:
>>>God regards okra with abomination. Okra, as also he who eats okra, is
>>>abominated by God. Slime, disgust, revulsion and putrefaction are all states
>>>of being associated with the existence, presence, ingestion of okra.
>>>DAD
>>
>>OK, no okratinis for you.  Even if you beg.
>>
>>LH
>
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