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What a fun roundup! I do have to comment however that beef consommé on the rocks technically IS a cocktail, in the original sense of the word. In the same category as shrimp and fruit cocktail.

During the pandemic, I actually gave the related "beef fizz," which was canned consommé with ginger ale and lemon juice, a go. It wasn't terrible! https://www.thefoodhistorian.com/blog/food-history-happy-hour-beef-fizz-1960s

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Lovely post! I will try the mushroom fried rice recipe soon. Thanks :)

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Thank you Rachel! Substack notified me that you put a link to my newsletter in yours. You will be even more disturbed about my Part II about ChatGBT and how it generates recipe headnotes. Quite shocking.

And I don't know how you embedded an image of the newsletter in your own newsletter, which was super fun to read.

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Chilled soup cocktails and tinned fish subscriptions. Sounds like happy hour on the YOU set.

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Great issue of ‘Nibbles’, Rachel! Thanks for the article about Campbell’s Soup broth cocktails!

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