Last Year: Rye .  Hoosier Heritage  https://www.mgoblog.com/diaries/mgococktail-indiana

As always scroll to the ingredients to skip the ramblings.

I could go over Zapruder film (again!) of the sack strip TD, or talk about the definition of indisputable, but others will probably do it earlier and better.

Plus, all 15 people reading this are probably in agreement.  What people on the board, radio, social media will disagree on is the continued employment of Harbaugh, Gattis and lesser extent McDonald.

After the last 5 years of living in the US , one thing has become clear to me.  No matter how many facts, memes or catchy stats one presents, neither side will convince the other.  The game thread and especially the snowflake threads devolve into arguments on Harbaugh’s job security after this week or McNamara vs McCarthy previously.  Even if the posters aren’t trolls and discussing in good faith.

                 https://xkcd.com/386/

Studies have shown even reading opinions or information that aren’t aligned with one’s opinions only deepen the reader’s resolve that their side is right.  Psychology studies time and again show that people when presented with contradictory information or facts will be happy to criticize the material and stubbornly hold onto their preconceived beliefs even more steadfastly.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds

So politically, social issues, or even these relatively irrelevant sports arguments, the idea of the week is please don’t waste your time.  The only thing you are doing is deepening the other side’s resolve.  None of us have control of it and the argument has the opposite intended effect on the opposing side.

  I'm thinking the former much more common than the latter

But that doesn’t generate clicks, radio and tv ratings, and devoted screen time to your socials.   So have fun! None of it matters! Eat at Arby’s!

 

Smoke ‘N Milk

Not much more Indiana than the Indianapolis 500.  I admit I don’t quite understand the appeal of racing sports.  Although I do appreciate the fact that once you pick a driver or sponsor that that driver plays every week.  More importantly that driver races his rivals every week.  So there’s a chance the driver will beat a hated rivals ass every week and vice versa.  Sounds enticing this week.

The tradition of drinking milk as a winner of the Indianapolis 500 started in 1933 when Louis Meyer asked for a glass of buttermilk after the race.  Then again when he won in 1936 he asked again and was handed a bottle and a famous photo was taken.

Some Indiana milk advertising executive saw the photo and wanted to make sure it became a new tradition and so it did.  Ironically , currently the American Dairy Association of Indiana won’t let the drivers drink the original buttermilk, even though they are given a survey before the race which kind of milk they would prefer.

I too was expecting a noon game, not sure this variation on a Rob Roy combined with a White Russian plays at night.  But a glass a milk might be just think to help you sleep through Fox’s commercials.  It is a smoky milk with a touch of nuttiness. 

Ingredients

1 oz Drambuie

.5 oz Scotch  (Don’t waste good stuff, Dewar’s or I’m using Famous Grouse as I do with all my scotch cocktails)  Do not buy Rob Burgundy’s Scotch  in the photo.  $3 scotch in a $30 bottle, seriously one of the worst things I’ve tasted.  I pour Grouse into the used bottle.  It gets a laugh when people see it

1 oz milk

Dash of dark walnut bitters

In a shaker tin, half filled with ice, add 1 oz Drambuie,  and Scotch, shake until the tin is frosted, add 1 oz milk, stir to chill thoroughly. Pour into a rocks glass with ice, add 1 dash Fee Brothers Black Walnut Bitters,

MGoSalut!