{"id":3465,"date":"2017-05-18T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:12:35","slug":"reporter-oblivious-drinking-habits-gets-skewered-wisconsinites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/reporter-oblivious-drinking-habits-gets-skewered-wisconsinites\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter oblivious to our drinking habits gets skewered by Wisconsinites"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Business Insider<\/em> writer made a big mistake earlier this week when she penned an article<\/a> about old fashioneds and failed to make any mention of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

The Madeline Stone article, titled “A cocktail that was forgotten for almost 50 years is suddenly taking over city bars,” is about \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 the old fashioned becoming fashionably hipster in places like New York City. Clearly, we flyover states don’t matter, even though almost half<\/a> of Korbel’s brandy production is consumed right here in our Wisconsin-style brandy old fashioned sweets. (I wonder if the taste for Korbel will also make it to the coasts? I think not.)<\/p>\n

Even the expert Stone interviewed for the article is uninformed. Eben Klemm, a “scientist turned mixologist who curates cocktails for New York’s Knickerbocker Hotel” \u2014 have you ever read a more pretentious job description? \u2014 is oblivious to Wisconsin’s drinking habits even as he claims to know what’s going on across the country. “Any decent bar or restaurant in almost any city in this country now can and will sell Negronis and Old Fashioneds,” he said. “These were unsellable a decade ago.” Oh, is that right?<\/p>\n

The internet backlash against the article (and those other stupid states who aren’t on the old fashioned bandwagon yet) was just as strong as our Wisconsin pride.<\/p>\n

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When no one from Business Insider has ever been to Wisconsin …https:\/\/t.co\/C49rXi0gru<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Nicole Haase (@NicoleHaase) May 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n