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Embarassingly dumb question

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  • 27-03-2010 08:57PM
    #1
    Cellar_Door
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭


    When you go into a bar and want to order whiskey - but not a shot, you're looking for it in a glass with ice, what's the proper name for that?


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    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I get it the whole time, Jameson on ice.


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    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    a glass of whiskey??


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    Mena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭Mena


    On the rocks.


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    spurious
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    Whiskey with ice?


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Cellar_Door wrote: »
    When you go into a bar and want to order whiskey - but not a shot, you're looking for it in a glass with ice, what's the proper name for that?

    A whiskey and ice


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    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    A whiskey.
    You should only get it in a shot glass if you specifically asked for it.


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    alwaysadub
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    on the rocks.


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    helimachoptor
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    On the rocks!


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    GLaDOS
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    Where's the little umbrella? That's how you know it's a scotch on the rocks!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Cellar_Door wrote: »
    When you go into a bar and want to order whiskey - but not a shot, you're looking for it in a glass with ice, what's the proper name for that?


    whiskey - but not a shot, you're looking for it in a glass with ice


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    Cellar_Door
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭Cellar_Door


    I was worried "on the rocks" sounded too americanised!


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    hitlersson666
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    Cellar_Door wrote: »
    I was worried "on the rocks" sounded too americanised!

    I think it does :)


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    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Cellar_Door wrote: »
    I was worried "on the rocks" sounded too americanised!

    It does. Don't say it, people will think your an ass. Whiskey 'n' ice.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Just ask for a whiskey (Jameson ;)), I have never been handed a whiskey in a shot glass. Most places even nightclubs will either ask if you want ice or else put in ice without asking.


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    chris85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,502 ✭✭✭chris85


    Or say you want it without ice you can just ask for a "whiskey, neat"....

    No barman will serve a whiskey in a shot glass unless asked to.


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    joewicklow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 265 ✭✭joewicklow


    Ice ruins Whiskey.


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    [Deleted User]
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    joewicklow wrote: »
    Ice ruins Whiskey.

    Stop your nonsense :pac:


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    Scarydoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    Oh the dilemma!:pac:


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    joewicklow
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    Ada Screeching Leak wrote: »
    Stop your nonsense :pac:

    rather than enhancing flavours, it actually inhibits them as the ice makes the temperature of the whisky drop rapidly. It is the same as when you drink a good white wine that has been chilled down too much. It will be more refreshing and calm the burn, but can make the taste dull and flat. The taste will start to open up and reveal its full character once the whisky starts to warm up.

    http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/adding_water_or_ice.html

    You should try it.


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    pebbles21
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    Drink it straight no ice ......ye big womans blouse :p


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    Knifey Spoony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Knifey Spoony


    I was given out to one night by a bar man, for asking for ice in my whiskey, saying that I would "kill "the taste. Got the ice in it anyway, but my god was he right...


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    [Deleted User]
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    joewicklow wrote: »
    rather than enhancing flavours, it actually inhibits them as the ice makes the temperature of the whisky drop rapidly. It is the same as when you drink a good white wine that has been chilled down too much. It will be more refreshing and calm the burn, but can make the taste dull and flat. The taste will start to open up and reveal its full character once the whisky starts to warm up.

    http://www.whiskyforeveryone.com/whisky_basics/adding_water_or_ice.html

    You should try it.

    I have had whiskey without ice before, I just prefer it cold tbh.


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    Porkpie
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    Pina colada.


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    efb
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    As Rob Brydon said, on how to remember www are the start of webpage adresses, "Whisky with water"


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    OutlawPete
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    I just ask for a JD and Ice ..


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    #27
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Go to a proper bar. They will not serve you in a shot glass unless asked to.


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    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    OP , if you are this confused about ordering it , you'll be great craic when you drink it;)


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    #29
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    erm, a whiskey

    i have never speficaly asked for a shot or a glass when ordering it, and have always been given it in surprisingly, a glass

    most places i've been to will ask if you want ice or water with it


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    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    What bar would give you a shot of whiskey when you asked for a whiskey? Sounds like an idiot bartender.


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    #31
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭InkSlinger67


    Cellar_Door wrote: »
    I was worried "on the rocks" sounded too americanised!

    From now on it shall be known as a whiskey on the Cellar_Door

    *Blocks out Fred West flashback*


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