For those of you who have followed the saga of the Sazerac cocktail, here's the latest on the Louisiana Legislature's most recent activity.
From the Times-Picayune:
BATON ROUGE -- The Sazerac, a drink invented in New Orleans in the 1830s, was put back on track Thursday to being designated the state's official cocktail by a legislative panel that also nixed designating an official Cajun Christmas story.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 8-3 for Senate Bill 6 by Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, to make the drink the state's official cocktail after it bogged down for weeks in the Senate. To keep the bill alive, Murray amended it to designate the Sazerac as the official cocktail of the city of New Orleans, but the House panel re-instated its statewide designation.
Then the legislators balked, and drew the line in the sand.
Along those lines, the committee unanimously rejected Senate Bill 434 by Sen. Dale Erdey, R-Livingston, that would have made "The Legend of Papa Noel, a Cajun Christmas Story," the state's official Cajun Christmas story.
When the legislators are engaged in this sort of foolishness, they create the least mischief.
If you're interested, the other posts are here and here.
Our state legislature has had an extraordinarily contentious, unproductive year. We've gone to the brink on shutting down both Chicago public transit and the Cook County hospital, which serves the poor. The speaker of the house won't even speak to the governor, who isn't speaking to his father-in-law (a prominent Chicago alderman). It's a mess. Maybe we should send them all on a fact-finding mission to Louisiana and get them sloshed on Sazeracs and then ram a few bills through when they're happy on booze.
ReplyDeleteIf Illinois were to have a state cocktail, it would either have to be Al Capone vintage hooch or green beer from St Patty's Day. Neither of which is even remotely appealing.
Just call the bill the 'Sazerac Ethics Reform Package' and the Shreveport delegation will jump on board. They have proved that the substance of a bill has no meaning to them as long as it will sell at home . . .
ReplyDeleteMaggie votes YES on Sazeracs.
ReplyDeleteI like the Ethics Reform Package suggestion. LOL
As I said at another blog, I sometimes have doubts about universal suffrage. The ignorant and uninformed get to vote, and they tend to vote for their own kind.
ReplyDeleteJim, brilliant suggestion. Will Sazeracs sell in Shreveport?
Maggie has my vote!
I wonder what will be the definitive version of Sazerac? As I do the research there seem to be quite a few wonderful variations - including a period of time when absinthe was added!
ReplyDeleteI feel more study is needed....
RR, trust me. You don't want to go there.
ReplyDeleteMimi, I never saw a drink that wouldn't sell in Shreveport.
ReplyDelete(PS - check my 'other' blog for an outrageous "news" story that really has me fuming)
ruth hull:
ReplyDeleteChicago does have a drink! Goose Island Hexnut Brown Ale.
(hey, its either that or an Old Style in a cheap plastic cup in the bleachers of Wrigley!)
Oh duh, how could I forget Old Style?
ReplyDeleteThe Sazerac is the best cocktail in the world, but still--doesn't the legislature have other things to do than argue over it?
ReplyDeleteBubs, trust me. They do much less harm when they spend their time on foolishness like this.
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