Bar raided after selling 'whale meat' cocktail

By JACK LOSH
Published: 09th December 2012

A trendy London bar has been raided for selling a cocktail allegedly flavoured – with illegal WHALE meat.

Cops swooped on the Nightjar bar in Hoxton, East London, where barmen were serving the Moby Dick drink.

It contained Laphroaig whisky, Drambuie, ale, bitters and a “whale skin infusion”.

The raid last week comes amid a Europe-wide ban on whale meat and products, except under strict restrictions in Greenland and Denmark.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4689220/Bar-raided-for-whale-meat-cocktail.html

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Bar raided after selling 'whale meat' cocktail (Original post)	n2doc	Dec 2012	OP
Ewww	frazzled	Dec 2012	#1
That's like the Star Trek IV of cocktails	RZM	Dec 2012	#2

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 12:14 PM

frazzled (9,140 posts)

1. Ewww

And not just for the whale meat.

I can't imagine anyone wanting to abominate a perfectly good measure of Laphroaig with a bunch of stuff like Drambuie, ale, and bitters. It's kind of a sacrilege. This cocktail mania is getting really out of hand: mixing together a crazy-quilt bunch of perfectly good stuff does not necessarily equal a better libation, just a mess. In other words the sum of the parts is not always better than the whole.

As a lover of Islay whiskeys, I'll drink me Laphroig neat, thank you very much.

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 12:34 PM

RZM (8,296 posts)

2. That's like the Star Trek IV of cocktails

There's no possible reason for there to be whales in it, but there they are.

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