There's a very simple Prohibition cocktail that's made a comeback recently called The Last Word: equal parts of gin, lime, Maraschino liqueur and Chartreuse. Perfect right? What could go wrong? Well Chartreuse is a very strong flavor and tends to dominate the drink. I suspect most modern bartenders actually cut back on the Chartreuse but anyway, I wanted to see if I could use a different medicinal liqueur in place of Chartreuse to make the drink more balanced. Cynar came to mind - it's in the same family but less intensely herbal. Et voila! At first I was going to call it the Cynical Word, but that didn't make enough sense, and then I thought of the lyric from Home on the Range ... —ProfPessimist
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