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No. 22: Seahawk (April 5, 2013)

My high school’s mascot was a Seahawk. Which isn’t really an actual bird, but is instead an alternate name sometimes used for an osprey or a skua. Mostly, though, it’s used for a football team or a plane. It makes a lot of sense to me that the school mascot from a place as artificial and inauthentic as where I grew up is a thing that sounds like it should be a real thing, but isn’t.

Our school colors were kelly green and royal blue (yes, like the unrelated professional football team across the country from the school). This they got right. I love those colors together. It’s very preppy (something I was VERY into in high school, and still have a sneaking fondness for) and the visual combination just works. So the place I grew up and the school I went to for six years at least had this one thing going for them.

My four closest high school friends were all going to be in Cambridge, so creating a Seahawk seemed like a good idea. The idea was better than the drink. I wanted green and blue, but I didn’t want blue curaçao because that stuff is just nasty. I thought (erroneously, as it turns out) that the crème de violette would be blue enough to substitute. So now, if you want the purple and green parts of a Mardi Gras drink (although I guess you’ll have to find something gold – a lemon, maybe?), I’ve got an idea for you.

¾ oz gin

¼ oz crème de violette

¼ oz Rose’s lime juice

lime twist

I initially made it without the Rose’s but, as my husband said, it was “powerful and too gin-y” so I added the bit of sweetartness.

When I asked the others if this drink recalled any of high school, the across-the-board, and vehement, answer was NO. One friend (the Maid of Honor from drinks past) said that, instead, the drink recalled Flintstone’s vitamins. So elementary school, then?

Haha. It was a strong drink, but not particularly delicious. It was fine, though, and fun to try and come up with something meaningful, given how unalcoholic our high school experience was. None of the five of us drank in high school (except one or two of the other four had a couple of beers at a party once and the Maid of Honor and I went into full-on freak-out mode, yelling about not bowing to peer pressure and how terrible it was that they were so easily swayed by what others thought of them!! Very funny in retrospect).

The friends get an A+, the Seahawk gets a C+.

photo coming soon (I need to remake the drink to photograph it, since I forgot to at the time, and I know that if I make it now, I will want to have some of it now, but I actually have things I need to get done today, so I need to wait until tonight to remake it so that my drinking it won’t screw up all the things I hope to actually accomplish today) (like staying awake) photo up! now I can go to bed!

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