Word: cacao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prohibition, indiscriminate tipplers discovered that whisky could be downed with impunity in public places if it were concealed in a glass of milk. A few learned to like it that way and kept the habit after repeal, continuing to order an occasional brandy alexander (cream, brandy and creme de cacao) or a sombrero (milk and Kahlua). But now drinkers are turning in larger numbers to the milky way. Liquor-store shelves are displaying a growing variety of dairy-based, premixed cocktails combining booze and moos...
...further camouflage the liquor taste, generous doses of chocolate, banana, strawberry and other flavorings are added. Federal Distillers in Cambridge, Mass., the first liquor company to go into bovine beverages, has a special Ice Box line that includes such cool, hot sellers as premixed Chocolate Sombreros (creme de cacao with a dairy base), and a Chocolate Chaser (creme de cacao and eggnog). Glenmore Distilleries in Louisville calls its creamy spirits Snowshakes. Chicago's Consolidated Distilled Products is milking the new fad by marketing Aberdeen Cows, which come in unusual flavors such as coconut and walnut. Prices range from about...
...gumshoe in patent-leather footwear, a master of misstatement, a helpless fanatic for crème de cacao, soft, sweet chocolate and Russian cigarettes. Still, Hercule Poirot, famed Belgian-born detective-and literary creation of Mystery Writer Dame Agatha Christie, 84 -never failed to solve a case in all of 37 novels. "An extraordinary little man!" Christie once wrote. "Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective...
Electra-Bar is still not as versatile as its human counterpart. Eccentrics who ask for grasshoppers (creme de cacao, green creme de menthe and heavy cream) or the like still must have drinks made by hand. Also, vegetation for martinis must be inserted by the bartender. But tipplers who have sampled Electra's concoctions report they are remarkably uniform in taste, and generally excellent too. The next step, obviously, is a machine that will listen to the barfly's problems and make an appropriately sympathetic reply...
Stagnant Empire. In addition to exotic woods, there were cacao and tobacco, the latter actually called "Trinidad" in early 17th century Europe. Nations had strict trade regulations, but they meant little in the face of raw opportunism. The Spanish had a saying: "The law is to be obeyed but not always followed...