[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by 19yzerman19

the fact that certain people have made #######ized or improvised versions of a drink with whatever they had on hand does not somehow expand what the drink is. The entire point is that it looks like a red eye. Thus the name. The yolk is what creates this visual. Recipes that omit the egg presumably do so because some people are weirded out by the notion of drinking a raw egg - squeamishness does not give one license to re-define a term, any more than i can remove the bacon and still call my sandwich a blt.

I'm open to certain variations on drinks that don't change the basic essence of them. If someone wants to use celery bitters in a red eye, cool. If you want to float a bit of red wine on top of your manhattan, go nuts. But you can't omit a central ingredient to a drink and have it still be that same drink. It's like making a mint julep without mint.

Clamato and beer is a ####ing abomination simple enough.

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