Ben Schott

And there's a thing called the boomerang and the boomerang is a drink that one bartender will make.

So they'll make a drink and they will take the glass and they'll wrap it in Saran wrap, or they'll put a kind of rubber glove over it in order to kind of stop it from spilling.

And they'll give it to a customer, a loyal customer to take to the next bar they're going to.

So bartenders can have drinks with each other during work.

So the boomerang, I mean, it's completely legal because it's a whole licensing issue, but a bartender will create, you know, an old fashioned or whatever, and he will send it via a customer to another bar.

And the boomerang, it's one of those things that in the bar world, you know, amongst mixologists and bartenders, like everyone knows about it, but like people will go into a bar

all of their lives and never know about the boomerang and my job and my joy is trying to spot these things and say hang on wait what you have this boomerang i need to know about this i never i've never heard of the boomerang until just now

Well, and there's also, I mean, there's all sorts of phrases.

So I quite like the bartender's handshake.

So there are certain drinks, you know, like Chartreuse, Fernet Branca, the Ferrari, which is half Fernet Branca, half Campari, that, you know, if you order it, it's kind of code, like, yeah, I'm in the business.

Like, you know, I'm drinking Fernet Branca, and it's one of those, like, you know, bartenders to bartenders.

It's what the industry drinks rather than, like, you know, other liquor that, you know, civilians like me drink.

the boomerang thing is a great example of like you could explain it the way you explained it but wouldn't it be great to just have a word like boomerang and everybody knows what you what you're talking about well i mean everybody does in that world but it's not for me it's not for the customer it's for you know the people in the industry right right um you know 86 in the weeds i mean there are all sorts of i mean what's fascinating so i don't know if you've seen the tv show the bear

about this restaurant.

And they've introduced lots of restaurant slang that was kind of back of house.

And now people are much more aware of it.

So every now and again, TV does kind of open the kimono, as they say in business, to a little world.

And I think the bear gets it really right.

That's a good question.

I don't think so.