lol, didn't get why you were asking until i saw your friend's response. the funny thing is some people take ice with weird shit. like, i would never through ice in a succulent glass of red wine but my friend won't consume any type of wine w/o ice. but cider? i mean...it really is like asking someone if they want ice in their beer. blech :\
so we were getting really shitty service that night anyway, when the waitress finally does pay attention to the fact that R wants something, we felt, blessed? Right. So R is like, Magners please, and as the waitress is walking away, she's like, glass of ice with that? (thick Irish accent mind you, so not immediately comprehended). R and I were both like, "WTF?" when we finally figured it out, but R was just like, uhh, no thanks. Waitress: well some people like ice with their cider. R: I've never heard of that. Me: paraphrasing the conversation. So then it takes forever for the waitress to brng R her drink, and while we're waiting, this table sits down next to us. Of course, they immediately get waited on. And one of the ladies orders a Magners. And specifically asks for a glass of ice. So R and I are like, "WTF?" So then when the waitress finally brings out R's Magners, she's also carrying a glass of ice... R gets the cider, of course, and the other woman gets the glass of ice and her Magners a few mins later. It was really really funny.
Anyway, I think ice in Magners is like ice in beer, and I've only ever seen ice in white wine that hasn't been properly chilled, never ice in red wine. I really think ice should be reserved for liquor based drinks and not in wine or beer (or cider or mead or any of the other beer-like alcohols). People are strange!
O'Reilly's on 35th btwn 5th and 6th. It's half after work, half neighborhood types. The most redeeming quality about it is that the tourists are all drawn to the hotel bar across the street and the rowdy (but supremely crappy) bar called the Playwright next door. We've since switcheed to the other O'Reilly's on 31st btwn 6th and Broadway. Yes there are two bars called the same thing less than four blocks away from each other.
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Date: 2006-10-15 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-15 08:08 pm (UTC)So then it takes forever for the waitress to brng R her drink, and while we're waiting, this table sits down next to us. Of course, they immediately get waited on. And one of the ladies orders a Magners. And specifically asks for a glass of ice. So R and I are like, "WTF?"
So then when the waitress finally brings out R's Magners, she's also carrying a glass of ice... R gets the cider, of course, and the other woman gets the glass of ice and her Magners a few mins later. It was really really funny.
Anyway, I think ice in Magners is like ice in beer, and I've only ever seen ice in white wine that hasn't been properly chilled, never ice in red wine. I really think ice should be reserved for liquor based drinks and not in wine or beer (or cider or mead or any of the other beer-like alcohols). People are strange!
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Date: 2006-10-16 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-16 07:41 pm (UTC)We've since switcheed to the other O'Reilly's on 31st btwn 6th and Broadway. Yes there are two bars called the same thing less than four blocks away from each other.