If your Georgia Bulldogs are coming off their best performance of the year and in true Munsonian fashion you feel a creeping dread even though you have nothing concrete to worry about, well, you could probably use a drink. I can help you with that.
I’m going to level with you, folks. I have trouble conceiving of a world in which the Charlotte Bobcats rise up and upset the Red and Black this Saturday in Athens. GlimmerTwinDawg did a wonderful job of summarizing it in numerical terms: even among cupcakes UNC-Charlotte is about as cream-filled as opponents come. The issue in this game isn’t the possibility of being outmatched. It’s the possibility of injuries or pure lackadaisical disinterest creeping in.
What we need is an old-fashioned cupcake smashing. The kind that lesser football fanbases would get overly excited about. I’m talking score on the first five drives against the defense that currently ranks 133rd out of 136 FBS teams in scoring defense.And what’s the drink for that sort of old-fashioned whuppin’?
An Old-Fashioned, of course. You’ll need:
- 1 ounce of simple syrup
- 3 dashes Angostura bitters
- 2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey
- 1 generous strip of orange peel
- Ice
Mix the syrup and 3 dashes of Angostura bitters together in a cocktail shaker. Fill a rocks or old-fashioned glass with ice. Fill the cocktail shaker with ice, add 2 ounces bourbon, and stir until chilled. Pour the cocktail through a strainer into the glass. Twist the orange peel directly over the cocktail’s surface, then garnish with the orange peel and enjoy.
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
