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'Ant' or 'Ahnt'? Capitalizing Cocktail Names. Archie Bunker.
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Do You Capitalize Cocktail Names?
A listener named dan asked, do you capitalize the name of cocktails such as bloody mary and mamosa? And the question turned out to be more complicated than i initially imagined. Some cocktail names are easy to figure out because they go by the standard capitalization rules. If they don't include something that would be a proper noun, such as a person's name or a city name,. You don't capitalize them. So mimosa, mud slide and pina colata are all lower case. But sometimes it's hard tell whether the drink name is still associated with a person or place. The chicago manual of style has the clearest rule. It says not to capitalize these terms
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