Cocktail Of The Week: The Reformed Gibson

L'Chaim, Mel

Today is Mel Gibson's birthday,(1) so it's fitting to do a temperance cocktail in his honor. I thought about doing something with a Gibson martini which uses pickled onions instead of olives, but since Mel Gibson swears he is turning over a new leaf, and since it is the start of a new year, I thought I would create The Reformed Gibson.

The Reformed Gibson

It's ingredients are:

2 ounces orange juice
2 ounces cranberry juice
1 ounce sweet and sour mix
1 teaspoon grenadine syrup
1 tablespoon triple sec
2 ounces pineapple juice
1 splash Sprite or any lemon-lime soda.

Combine ingredients in a shaker, serve in chilled martini glass and garnish with different fruits (to show you aren't biased).

"What do you think you're looking at, Splenda Tits?"

I was going to make the drink non-alcoholic, but since Mel has already slid on the slope a little, I thought I'd throw in the triple sec to ease him along so he doesn't go Cold (Wild) Turkey.

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom." (2)

(1) 1956 in Peekskill, New York. Pee Wee Herman was born in the same hospital, four years
earlier.

(2) Quote from the movie, Braveheart.