Hot Pink
Take an orange liqueur (Triple Sec, Grand Marnier, Cointreau), add cranberry and lime (not lime) ... with vodka it's a Cosmopolitan; ... with tequila, it's a Tequila Cosmopolitan or a Cuervopolitan or a Rude Cosmopolitan; ... with champagne it's a Cosmopolitan Champagne Cocktail (pic); ... with lemon instead of lime, it's an Evan; ... with Vermouth and orange, it's a Petit Zinc; ... with citrus-favored rum, it's an O'Cosmopolitan; ... with a DVD release and a marketing campaign, it's a Pink Panther Cosmo... the recipe of which seems to differ from the standard cocktail only by being swag.
Curiously, attached recipe doesn't specify for swagged item (Randy Raspberry Cocktail Candy raspberry-flavored cocktail sugar) to be rimmed on the glass, ala margarita salt. Product is swagified by getting Shagified: repackagifying from normal for filmic tie-in by package's original artist Shag (interviewed for some anachronistics).
MGM -- trying to bring the "Pink Panther" franchise into a modern era by linking it to the Cocktail Nation lounge craze, which is not unlike trying to link flavored sugar products to the Cosmopolitan cocktail craze -- does so on the occasion of the film's 40th anniversary, repackaged by the artist formerly know as Josh Agle who's also courted by Disneyland on swag for its Enchanted Tiki Room's 40th anniversary to be available through the Disneyland Gallery. A typography buff identifies Adventureland's Tiki type, among others. Shag has a type of Tiki type all his own, and a cocktail culture thing too.
Some swagger might've suggested a pink of a different flavor, or another still, but neither had a trendy show associated with it.
Tin, made of aluminum and about the size of a Super 8mm film can, has applied labels with pseudo-60s colors and the messages "Life is short, make it sweet" and touting the "stylish round tin and sponge we've included make the rimming of the glass simple" eventhough we weren't aware it was hard (for the record, we encountered no sponge). Label has a flavor of being very before-the-title, big-budget-Hollywood, listing a pecking order of proprietary notices: "Cocktail Candy produced for Planet Sugar, Inc. by Twang, Inc." Candy has a flavor (we take this job seriously, folks) like raspberry in the way that Tang tastes like orange juice, hence the name Twang who sells a Tex-Mex'd series of citrusy products.
For the science obsessed: If astronauts liked Tang (not Tang) why are they testing orange juice? More citrus science: as a weapon against HIV and as a weapon.
For the trivia obsessed: The Cosmopolitan cocktail made the public record (at end): "Hunter S. Thompson -- the self-proclaimed 'mad doctor of gonzo journalism' -- managed to get it cited in an affidavit used in The People of the State of Colorado v. Hunter Stockton Thompson."
For the copyright obsessed: Adventureland is not Adventureland is not Adventureland.
For the flavor obsessed: Insist on fresh lime juice and simple syrup. Rose's is fine if you're seafaring and fighting scurvy or really lazy (tip: straining saves on cleanup strain). Otherwise, it's not something we ought to be paying for, and further, for the thrift obsessed: Bottle your own (PDF) (tip: to yield more juice, microwave for 15-30 secs & let sit a minute before squeezing.)
Mar 24, 2004 at 08:00 PM by James Hames in Video and DVD | Permalink
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