One of my favorite potables is a very simple cocktail consisting of vodka and tomato juice. I've been trying for years to determine if this concoction actually has a name. I’d like to be able to order it by name in a restaurant or bar.
There is an interactive web site where you can enter the ingredients you have, and it will return all the drinks that can be made with them. I listed vodka and tomato juice, hoping it would tell me what that combination is called. It told me there is no drink that can be made out of just those two ingredients.
A bartender in an Indian casino in Sault Ste. Marie once told me this drink was called a Caesar. I tried to confirm that, but every recipe I’ve found for a drink called Caesar (or sometimes Bloody Caesar) is made with Clamato juice, plus such things as hot sauce, Worcestershire, celery salt, etc., which makes it too much like a Bloody Mary, which I don't care for at all.
So, I guess I’ll just have to continue asking for vodka and tomato juice.
Speaking of Bloody Marys, however, reminds me of a brunch at an elegant restaurant at which my sister-in-law, unable to recall that the alcohol-free version is called a Virgin Mary, shocked the daylights out of the waiter by telling him she wanted a Bloody Virgin.
Eewww.
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