"dog whistles"

[victor steinbok]

Cranberry and Slivovitz. Maybe with Curacao & preserved lemon.

VS-)

On Apr 5, 2014 2:47 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> ...
> cf. "cosmopolitan" (or, if more specificity was needed, "rootless
cosmopolitan") for 'Jew'.   Wonder if anyone has tried marketing "Rootless
Cosmopolitan" as a drink, as an act of reclamation.  (Maybe with a dill
pickle wedge in place of the usual lime.)
>
> LH

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