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Mad Men Style Cheat Sheet For Cocktail Kids
I’m starting to think Mad Men was created to take the pressure off today’s parent. Lined up against smoking, drinking Betty Draper, who allows her elementary schooler to take driving lessons with her crazy grandpa and pretends away her kids’ feelings, we are all up for mother of the year.
But has that much changed since the sixties? Nobody’s Sweetheart, creator of the best Mad Men memorabilia on the net, has a two-part series of “Sally Draper Cocktail Cheat Sheets” that are both retrolicious and satirically hysterical.
The first asks “What’ll It Be Daddy”, the second “The Usual Mommy?” offering up real recipes for our favorite old-fashioned drinks (although conspicuously missing IS the old-fashioned, sigh).
I can’t say my parents ever sent me off to mix up a vodka gimlet . . . or a pink lady for that matter. Their drink of choice was coffee, and a lot of it. By the time I was old enough to lift the full water pitcher up to the top of the pot, I was the designated coffee maker – at all hours of the day. No surprise, then, that I’m one of the rare American adults who can’t stand even a whiff of coffee.
But I knew a fair amount of kids who made their parents drinks, or, at the very least, grabbed a beer from the fridge. I’m even going to risk saying it: I don’t think it harmed them irreparably – provided theirs weren’t the drunk parents who were demanding the booze on a nightly basis (no doubt, those kids were harmed).
Would you let your kids serve up sidecars Mad Men style?
More Mad Men-style looks at parenting:
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Basket of Kisses | Mad News, September 10-16, 2009 commented on Sep 16 09 at 11:22 amLolaLane commented on Sep 11 09 at 2:22 pmWhen the kids are old enough to know that Mommy and Daddy aren’t huge drunks, then yes- mix away. I mixed a mean Tequila Sunrise and blended a sweet Pina Colada back in the early 90′s (as those were the chic drinks of the day) and I turned out totally well-adjusted…and I’ve never been one to really booze it up until pass-out anyhow.
Sharon commented on Sep 11 09 at 3:18 pmUm, “The Old Fashioned” is in the bottom right corner on the Daddy sheet.
jeannesager commented on Sep 11 09 at 3:22 pmSorry Sharon – I meant to take that out once I saw the second one. Thanks for catching that for me!
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