Talk:Hand grenade (drink)

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From the writeup: it seems to be made of various lacquers and liquors.

Really? lacquer is usually poisonous... --RT, 20:29, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

That's why I just changed it.

as for the citation needed on the featured in songs thing. (link removed) It's in the third verse.

I don't understand why this article is commercial spam, is Coca-Cola's wikipedia entry "Commercial Spam"? The article is spot on, even if brief. I was checking it hoping to find what the drink contains, the link to a potential recipe was helpful but not informative, but the information presented is correct(over half the people walking on bourbon right now, Dec 9th, have a hand grenade in their hand, frozen, even though it's cold as hell out here). I don't see why it is commercial spam. The article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Value has much more commercial spam than this article. --Joseph (Sorry, no wikipedia acct)

[edit] Prod and Spam Claim

I agree that this article does sound like commercial spam. However, whomever prodded this page for deletion apparently was not aware that the entire series of cocktail-related articles are undergoing evaluation, improvement, and/or merging into the main articles. Deleting pages while we are still working on them severely hinders our progress. If deleted, it requires us to request the deleted information back from an administrator so that we can cull the useful bits out of the original article. Once the project is finished with this cleanup, we will be nominating many articles for deletion. This article reads like a commercial for one particular group of bars in New Orleans. If only four bars in the world serve this drink, the drink probably is not notable enough to be listed in Wikipedia. That is why the article appears to be commercial spam (an advertisement for a unique drink placed here by the proprietors of the four bars). If more information cannot be located to assert the notability of this drink (perhaps a reference to it in a major newspaper or magazine outside the New Orleans area, a reference to the drink in a large, unbiased bartender's manual, etc.) and otherwise improve this article, it probably will be one that will be deleted at that time. Thanks. --Willscrlt 11:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

A quick Google search shows that recipes are available online, and the article makes open reference to them, as well as to the unprotectability of the recipe. I'd clear out the lines about its popularity and the cultural references (unless the latter can be speedily verified), but keep the article as a whole. --65.96.181.58 17:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)