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When the giraffe is buying.So, what was a "Hi Ball"?
I'm not buying it.
Maybe a toss in the rack with a 'lady of the evening' cost that much back then (15 - 20 cents for the top of the line ones), ... but for a 'shot' of whiskey, or a bullet, no.
I did a quick google of this before posting and some stuff like it came up. My bad if its wrong but I thought it was interesting. Why the hell is it called a shot then?
So, what was a "Hi Ball"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_glassThe Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for the term "shot glass" is in The New York Times during the 1940s, but the earliest known written reference was in a 1913 book by Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, A History of Cass County Indiana from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [Lewis Publishing Company, 1913].[citation needed]
It's called a "shot" of whiskey because the same amount of whiskey goes into the shot glass as the amount of a "shot" that I have of taking home the prettiest girl at the bar. Duh.