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Phried Ω 🇺🇦 Путин, иди на хуй's avatar

Before retiring I worked for a four-letter gov. agency and traveled all over the world for 30 years. One of my minor passions was to sample a drink inextricably linked with an alleged origin of that drink. So, I've had a Singapore Sling in the Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel and a Mai Tai at the Royal Hawaiian Mai Tai bar (shutup, I'm not going to Oakland for a drink). The story of Irish Coffee is massively enhanced if you know the weary travelers were returning to the hotel after an aborted trans-Atlantic flight aboard a flying boat (1943=WWII=neutral Ireland, remember?). So this is where I had my Irish Coffee:

https://www.flyingboatmuseu...

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