| 词汇 | indian whiskey |
| 词源 | Indian whiskey. Cheap rotgut often sold to Indians by cyni- cal traders as good liquor. E. C. Abbott and Helene Huntington Smith in We Pointed Them North (1939) tell a story about early western traders making it from the following recipe: “Take one barrel of Missouri River water, and two gallons of alcohol. Then you add two gallons of strychnine to make them crazy—be- cause strychnine is the greatest stimulant in the world + three bars of tobacco to make them sick—because an Indian wouldn’t figure it was whiskey unless it made him sick + five bars of soap to give it a head, and half pound of red pepper, and then you put in some sage brush and boil it until it’s brown. Strain this into a barrel and you’ve got your Indian whiskey.” Also called Indian liquor. |
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