Reply #21: Manhattans certainly. The Old Fashioned, it depends on how they are made. [View All]

And of course, we must also take into account that there is no ONE Old Fashioned - that's a name that covers a HUGE variety of drinks in America, as I have disocvered over the years travelling all over. Even within Wisconsin (my used to be home state), there is a HUGE variety, and one never knows what one will get. In Nebraska, they were awful. (So was my Martini, but that wasn't because of Nebraska, that was just because of an ignorant illiterate bartenderess who didn't know her asshole from a billboard advertising Doan's Pills and she served my "straight" Martini neat, the whore). Old Fashioned in NYC depends on the bar one is at, Wyoming is different than Nebraska is different than South Dakota is different than LA is different than MI (and like WI, it depends in MI on where one is)...

I like a Southern Comfort Old Fashioned with a wheel of orange and a maraschino cherry, with bitters, pestled sugar, and a splash of soda water, which is almost impossible to find anywhere outside NYC, since almost no one has soda water except NYC.