This year's list of cocktails to "bury" is  the LONG ISLAND ICED TEA, RED HEADED SLUT, FUZZY NAVEL, BLUE HAWAIIAN, and SEX ON THE BEACH.

The APPLETINI was buried last year. 

To "bury" any of these cocktails on a site from a bunch of nobody's who never created any famous cocktail is a joke and most of them have never even stood behind the stick.

What do I have to say to The New Orleans Culinary and Cultural Preservation Society running this show?

"No one really cares what you bury or say, but I cannot sit and let your phony crew do this to people who have spent a great deal of creativity in making them. You have now overstepped your boundaries.  

I have been invited many times to your show, but I do not work for prestige or ego or wanting my name to appear in the paper.  I want to be paid, you're making money, so why shouldn't the Bartender. 
 
I am not a phony, I have tended bar for over 16 years and have done more for Bartenders, real bartenders, than anyone in this country and I am proud of it. My books (over 14) sell very well without your deal. 

Why you think that you're better than anyone with creativity is unspeakable! Who are these people who want to bury classic cocktails? Let us see the names! Don't hide! You have started something I do not think you really wanted to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

You're not for BARTENDERS, you're for yourself to line your pockets with money on the backs of hardworking BARTENDERS!  Look at how much you charge and get these hardworking bartenders to work for free!!!!!! Do you pay any or just free room and board.  It's almost slavery! You should be ashamed of yourselves. But of course you're pocketing the money!"

 
Those who support this farce should take a long look, as their favorite or most popular customer requested recipe could be the next BURIED COCKTAIL! It is NOT right!

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"Say NO to the Burial of Cocktails"

Ray Foley
A REAL BARTENDER!!!!!!! 
Founder of BARTENDER Magazine
  

History of the FUZZY NAVEL

20 years ago a cocktail was created at a private bar on Park Avenue in New York City by two lovers of the drink, Jack Doyle, who worked for the company and Ray Foley, a Bartender from New Jersey.

They were trying to create a cocktail for a brand new product, DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps. Jack was mixing it with orange juice and Ray was cutting an orange for garnish when Jack made the remark that he could still smell the fuzz of DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps through the orange juice. Ray looked at the orange and saw the printed word Navel, for navel orange. The cocktail was created: THE FUZZY NAVEL.
 
Happy 20th Anniversary Fuzzy Navel!

  
Ray Foley is the founder of BARTENDER Magazine, Bartender Hall of Fame™, Bartender Foundation™, and the author of over 14 books on cocktails and bartending. He is retired, but not dead. The opinions of this editorial are his and his alone. Also, Ray is a former United States Marine and cannot and will not stand silent! - The Editor, BARTENDER Magazine (Spring 2009)

   
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