Roy Rogers Mocktail

Another "mocktail," but this time named after cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers. When I was a kid in the 1950s, Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans, were popular in movies and in a television series that aired on the NBC network in those times.

 

Ingredients (per drink):

 

6 ounces coca-cola (or other cola)

1/2 ounce grenadine

(optional) squeeze of fresh lime juice from a small lime wedge (use the wedge as a garnish)

2 or 3 maraschino cherries for garnish

ice

tall glass (10 ounce glass is good)

 

Real easy ... Add some cola to the glass, then add the grenadine and stir. Now add plenty of ice, then add a squeeze of lime juice from a small lime wedge, then put the squeezed lime wedge into the glass along with 2 or 3 maraschino cherries. 

 

WORD HISTORY:

Sober-This compound word (actually prefixed word) goes back to Indo European "se/swe," which had the notion "away, separate, apart;" thus also, "lacking, without," and to Indo European "(h)eg" (to drink) which gave Latin the adjective "ebrius," meaning "drunk." (This makes "sober" related to "inebriate," a Latin-derived word borrowed by English from that language.) Latin combined the two parts into "sobrius," which meant "not drunk ('without alcoholic drink');" thus also, "self-restrained, not given to immoderate behavior." This passed to Latin-based Old French as "sobre," meaning "not drunk, not given to drinking alcohol, modest, laid back in behavior or personality." English borrowed the word in the 1300s, initially as "sobre," but it wasn't long before that changed to "sober," where it has been for hundreds of years. The idea of not being drunk, then also, not given to immoderate behavior, led to the more direct meaning of "serious, solemn," which is still a secondary meaning to the word's primary meaning of "not drunk." A verb form also was present in the 1300s, initially with the meaning "to bring someone to a condition of calm," which by the earlier 1700s added "to have or develop a state of seriousness toward something," and by circa 1825 "to bring out of a state of drunkenness," which not many years later was paired with "up," as "sober up." (Notes: 1) English once used "undruncen" as its word for "sober," and that is a word that would still work well in modern English, although with the modernized spelling to "undrunken;" 2) Latin "sobrius," see above, had a common spoken form "subrius," that was reduced to "suber," meaning "modest, level-headed, prudent, clean from alcohol," and it was borrowed by the West Germanic languages, giving Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "syfre," meaning "modest, without blemish, spotless, pure." The English word died out, as did its relative in Low German, "subri/sufra (?)," but forms are still kicking in its Dutch relative "zuiver," meaning "pure, clean," and its German relative "sauber," meaning "clean," but also "perfect, without flaw," in some contexts, and in parts of Bavaria and Austria it can also mean "cute.")