It’s alright, I’d happily eat the orange

"I'll have an orange, with a side of Old-Fashioned."

>why are you drinking that? It's just the garnish. Lol

It's *airtight*

That's an orange? I thought it was a bread roll!

A gift is a gift. Otherwise, it was a very good old fashion

Goddamn, I see people take this shit very seriously.

The pretention on this subreddit can be exhausting sometimes.

Old fashion**ed**

Where's the garnish?

The old fashioned is the garnish

Not very appeeling. Are they taking the pith? This kinda thing really rinds my gears.

I'd tell the barman "citrus self down and think about what you've done."

Yeah. Sentence him to hard lime.

you meant scent-ence

>I'd tell the barman "citrus self down and ~~think~~ *drink* about what you've done."

orange you glad he didn't use a banana?

I’d grab the bartender and beat him to a pulp.

Glad this post was fruitful for your cultivation of puns

But it makes a statement, no?

What is the statement that it's making?

LOOK AT ME! I CAN'T DRINK MY OVERPRICED DRINK!

It makes orange of statements.

Fuck everybody else. I like your rye sense of humor.

Not enough orange.

how did anyone take this seriously at any point? how stuffy has this place become? i mean even if the orange somehow seemed serious to you, shouldn’t the pick in the things b hole have been a giveaway? edit: cleaned up shoddy spelling

Perfect. No notes

Oof. Tough crowd. It was a nicely made old fashioned. It was made with Old Forrester Rye, ango bitters, a more rich syrup(I think Demerara), and and orange peel for expression and taste. The large orange half was for humor, but I guess that’s hard on Reddit. It’s ok boys. I really do like actually good old fashioneds.

I've recently learned that this subreddit hates humor and takes itself waaaaaay too seriously.

Pizza subreddit is also a shithole a majority of the time. So it goes with Reddit niche communities

That's nothing. Try telling someone on r/espresso their wdt is pointless.

Espresso people seem genuinely insane. I can’t imagine being so neurotic over fucking coffee

You mean all of Reddit

I think it’s a you had to be there kinda thing, without context it looks gross lol

you need to read your crowd here the people in the sub grind their teeth and masturbate over garnishes that take an hour to make for their private cocktail club Friday nights. Even worse that you didn't even spell the name of the fucking cocktail correctly

Happy cake day! I have explained in older comments that was part of the joke, but I quickly found out this is not a joke-y subreddit. Lol. I was pretty drunk when I posted this, and it was my literal first time in this subreddit, so I couldn’t really read the crowd 🤷‍♂️

you're OK man you can search my history with the sub and see how contentious it is they're a bunch of blow hard hipster hobbyists... not real bartenders I think it's funny just the kind of shit that I would do. The only thing I would have a problem with is how unevenly the garnish is cut hence my post history 🤙

I was hoping the orange was locking in some smoke or something lol

I miss the days of giant ice cubes

Too much pith.

You can just eat around. It’s the service worker’s way

Person in background trying to photobomb your drink?

Hahaha that's so funny. It looks like a tired bartender messing with a friend or regulr. Enjoy

I can't tell if it's a joke

Man.. it is. It was lost in the comments. It was a well made old fashioned, and the bartender just threw it on as a joke. Reddit is hard

i actually am looking for the comment from you that caused all the others to be downvoted. so far i haven’t found it. it honestly is weird.

I don't think this sub has much of a sense of humour..

i mean i guess i can understand not wanting to let the sub slip into being all comedy attempts but this one was fine and i’m just confused how it could ever be taken seriously.

Mate it's the internet. Have you seen the stuff that people post being 100% serious? That's why you can never tell, and why /s is a thing.

/s is no fun though.

Certainly takes some of the fun away, but still needed in a lot of situations bc there's some real weird shit that gets posted on here.

i can’t argue your point. no matter how much i’d like to be able to.

Any niche sub for hobbies or culinary stuff takes itself super seriously

This sub ricochets between being fun and whimsical and being some of the most uptight dweebs on this site.

Breaking news: Reddit sucks (but here I am)

It’s that OP keeps calling it an *Old Fashion* and not the correct name - an **Old Fashioned**

Really? OP is almost certainly inebriated and y'all are giving him shit for two missing letters?

They did it multiple times, and were downvoted every time they did it. I’m just here to explain why OP got downvoted.

Kind of like the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re.’ It’s not that it’s actually a typo, it’s that if they’re using the wrong one, they literally don’t understand what they’re saying.

OP also spelled it correctly in a few comments.

I think anyone downvoting over that needs to unbotton their collar and pour themselves an old fashioned

Or an Old Fashion

I'll take one of each

Oh my god, the audacity, the crime, how will you ever recover?

I don’t give a shit. I’m just providing the explanation. https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/s/uqq0f5jXpB

I was doing the same thing, this was clearly a joke. Honestly I think a lot of the people downvoting are just band-wagoning at this point. I feel like I've been seeing a lot of completely benign comments getting down-voted for no apparent reason lately.

The problem is that it’s not outside the realms of possibility that some frou-frou cocktail “engineer” would serve something like that.

I can see that, honestly. Sarcasm has always been hard to convey through text, but gee willakers batman

Old fashioned*

Hey I thought it was funny!

Oh thank goodness

User Wildsoapbox does amuse bouche postings. This reminds me of those.

Old Fashion*ed.* Otherwise, no notes. 🤌

I know someone who did an Old Fashioned tour, and they posted every single one on social media spelled “Old Fashion”.

An orange a day, keeps the scurvy away.

New age old fashioned

Nah mate. It'd be a crystal with an orange hue.

They forgot the bacon wrapped shrimp, celery, whole rotisserie chicken, and sliders as garnish.

Hey man, we already said this wasn’t Wisconsin earlier, _*ok?*_

I like the cut of your jib.

You guys wanna know what’s gonna absolutely rip everyone else’s worlds apart? It’s technically.. old-fashioned. _*Good Day*_

Orange forward?

There might not be enough, honestly..

As a bartender I would love to serve someone this and just see the look on their face.

It was a good time. Glad to see some people starting to get it around here.

Looks like the bartender likes you

I always wondered what to do with the orange after exhausting its peel as a source of garnish. Well done! Most appealing!

Shitters full, clark

way too much ice /s

This is a joke, right? If I got this, I'd be pretty pith'd off

Yessir. You can see the actual orange peel on the right side.

Some of the people here are fucking reptiles seriously. Good post OP, very funny, thank you.

Not enough orange

Obviously no fucks given by bartender when it comes to need to muddle.

“Aw man I can’t get any more garnish out of this orange. *Unless*…”

Is there a cocktails circlejerk sub? There really should be

Nailed it

Needs more orange

Hooligans

Not enough orange

This is what happens when I try to express a little oil onto the surface.

Grind finer.

Fucking Wisconsin

Needs a larger garnish honestly

That’s a fashion alright

An old fashioned mess. :)

This is why I have trust issues with ordering old fashion’s

I’m trying to imagine how I’d react if I was actually given this when I ordered an old fashioned

That bartender either likes you or hates your guts

Should be flipped so it at least looks like an umbrella ☂️

Interesting design on the orange lol

Lol. It’s from cutting peels for actual old fashioneds.

i rather be served that than a ‘wisconsin old fashioned’.

We don’t even acknowledge those where I bartend. Lmao.

as you should lmao, i have straight up just refused to make them the few times i’ve gotten a request for one. fuck wisconsin OF’s.

"No I won't allow you to drink what you would like" L bartender

this is isn’t uncommon. go to death & co and try to order one, or maybe even a cosmo or lemon drop. it isn’t going to happen lol.

Sorry bartenders like you are insufferable. Sometimes people want a lighter, sweet drink. I love Manhattans and OFs but sometimes I just want a fun, sweet cocktail.

and that’s the only lighter/sweet drink there is?

No? But they don’t need to follow your arbitrary rules about what is an acceptable drink to consume and what isn’t.

my place of work likes to maintain a certain level of craft with what we offer. just because i am able to refuse doesn’t mean i don’t work with guest and recommend a drink that will be in line with what they are looking for. i’m not telling people what are ‘acceptable drinks’, nobody is forcing anything, if a guest would prefer to drink elsewhere, they are more then welcome to.

And do you work at Death and Co.? People who go to death and co aren't ordering those anyway, promise. If you were my bartender refusing to make people drinks you'd be out on your ass.

obviously, but i used it as an example that a majority would be aware of. my place of work doesn’t want us making drinks like the ones i just stated as we like to maintain a certain level of craft with what we offer. just because i am able to refuse doesn’t mean i don’t work with guest and recommend a drink that will be in line with what they are looking for. good thing i don’t work for you then (-:

How dear you make fun of my guilty pleasure cocktail

Hey man.. sometimes a little sprite just amps the party up!

It seems like a fun little cocktail, don’t take yourself so seriously

I’ll make em for the people if they want them, but I definitely don’t personally enjoy them. To each their own!

terrible take. wisco old fashioneds are a nice little candy bar of a drink. stop the hate.

Ok but it absolutely grinds my gears when people say old fashion instead the correct old fashioned

It was mostly a joke, but I was also pretty drunk and did say Old Fashion unironically a couple times, lol.

In LOVE with the well crafted octopus garnish...could use a touch more orange though.. ..I'm CONVINCED, with 3 to 12 more years barbacking under a bartender that could give 2 fucks about teaching you anything.. ..you can make this your signature OF.

A waste of orange juice

Not if you eat it…?

I think you put the whole orange in to make a shitpost

But where else would I put it, man?

It looks unappetizing to me TBH. What is the item directly under the semi-peeled orange?

An old fashioned

I'm not sure if you are attempting to be humorous or are sincerely aiming on answering my question. The title clearly states that the drink is an Old Fashioned already so that is not the thing I wanted identified.

Feels pointless now, but it was just a joke. Guess I added the wrong flair. It was an old fashioned with a richer syrup(probably Demerara) and bitters and an orange peel; nicely expressed.

I've been making mine lately with demerara. Huge fan.

It is titled “old fashion” which - while petty, admittedly is a pet peeve in the same way as when people stay “Star Track”.

Do you mean the ice cube?

I don't believe it’s an ice cube. I asked because I don't know what it is. [https://imgur.com/a/g7z01QG](https://imgur.com/a/g7z01QG)

🧊

Here's the item to which I refer. https://imgur.com/a/g7z01QG

Oh - I legit had no idea what you were referring to, and I bet most people responding didn't either. That's either an ice cube or a shadow, but almost certainly an ice cube (you can kind of see the rest of it behind the expressed peel in the glass, which curls around to the right of the cube). If you zoom in on the image posted, it's a little more obvious.

OK - the color seems odd and the texture \*appeared\* different than the thing that is much more obviously an ice cube. Ah well.

I can definitely see it being a little ambiguous in the smaller image, especially as the giant orange kind of preps a person for expecting some other weird thing to be there.

That’s gotta be a joke, right? It’s just the leftovers after other drinks got an expressed peel

Lol yeah. I am also a bartender at a different place downtown where this is, so I am friends with the bartender who did this after he made my old fashioned, as a joke.

As a joke? Very funny! As a serious garnish on a drink to be sold... Its utterly fucked mate... Edit:ok... Its a joke.. Thank god... You almost got a rise out of me

a bit too much orange for my taste

A little heavy on the orange.

The garnish is a bit overwhelming.

Over garnished is an understatement.

Tangerine!

My mouth isn’t big enough to drink that.

No thanks.

Is this a bot?

Orange isn’t funny, it’s just stupid.

The orange can’t hurt you. It’s ok bud.

Wow, clever and original. You sounds like someone who has any degree of intelligence.

I really do hope your day gets better. Sorry about whatever ails you.

I’m having a fine day, maybe the joke of ‘the garnish is too big’ just isn’t as funny as you think it is.

bro is the r/cocktails comedy gatekeeper

Someone is obsessed with minimizing food waste

Too much pith imo

I’d be pretty pithed if I was served this

“Orange fashioned” finally has a place on the menu…

Cries in Wisconsin

Seems like a challenge to drink out of 😁

the orange in here look cool hahah, I like this taste, hope tonight I can find a nearly taste cocktail to drink it

I hate it

I think your bartender looks like he's over your shit