Big Pharma and the BarkeepExcerpted notes for cocktail recipes
Lobbyist Lemon Drop Tart. In taste and character. Sunny – by all appearances safe and refreshing. This cocktail has something slipped into it. This one will take you from Kansas to Oz and back. You just don’t know it. The Good Journalist A call drink with your favorite brand of gin, Diet Coke, lime, is on the house, every time. We need Clark Kent more than Superman. Listen. We need reporters who know the way to save the world is to inform it. F.T.C. Fizz This one takes a swizzle stick with a tiny plastic crane. Use cracked ice before the grapefruit juice, before the Prosecco. The Federal Trade Commission prevents anticompetitive or deceptive business practices. Except when they don’t. Except when they won’t. This one has a lonnnng, aftertaste. The Formulary A daily special, its price changes any time. Its availability changes any time. The barkeep gets a phone call and goes back to erasing and hand-lettering the chalkboard. This drink is named for contemporary pharmacy benefit managers, the post-merger Goliaths. You must repeatedly show ID to prove you deserve the chance to be served. The Prayer Serve The Prayer in ceramic steins hand-thrown by Benedictine monks. Serve it hot like Glühwein. Spicy, comforting, sharp. Drink it with your eyes closed (obviously).
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