Talk:Orange Whip
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[edit] Three Two Orange Whips!
I always assumed that the "Orange Whip" referred to in The Blues Brothers was of the non-alcoholic variety; my memory is that at amusement parks, hot dog stands and the like, there were at one time these proto-Slurpee machines on the back counter churning away, poised to produce for you a frothed-up orange concoction of some sort.
Given the era the movie was trying to evoke, and the anecdote related here about someone connected to the "Orange Whip Corp", it would seem more likely that it was this virgin drink that Jon Candy was ordering, and that the alcoholic cocktail was named after, or even modelled after, the drinks these machines vended.
Can anyone confirm or deny my impression? If I'm not completely pulling this out of thin air, it seems to me this article should mention both the dispensed drink and the cocktail as two separate entities. I haven't had any luck poking about on the Web, which is cluttered with many many discussions of the BB quote, closely followed by references to an "Orange Whip" font.--NapoliRoma 19:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Heh, just noticed that this article originated as a description of a "now-defunct fountain beverage" before getting completely made over into a description of the cocktail, and losing the original meaning in the process.--NapoliRoma 19:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah. I spent about 5 hours on this teeeeeny little article looking to flesh it out; anything about a soda fountain type Orange WHip would have been a godsend. But there really isn't anything. I have been able to find an image of a 1940s link to an ad for a fountain drink dispenser that makes Orange Whips, but almost nothing else. The machine was called something else, but the headline said 'Orange Whip!'. It was from the 'Tropical Fruit Company' though. I have not actually been able to ascertain that there actually was an Orange Whip Corp, there seem to be no references to it aside from the one I gave. On the other hand, a bartending guide I have at home from 1972 (8 years pre-movie) does give a very similar recipe for the Orange Whip, as stands. Considering the community that the movie came out of, and the drinks that were actually shown being drunk in the film (which look like the mixed drink described, not like the fountain drink, which seems to just be akin to an Orange Julius, I suspect that while the father asked for the reference to be about the one, and John Candy actually made it about the other. --Thespian 19:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Edit to add: I could find nothing about 'now-defunct fountain beverage' except for referrals back to here and a Yahoo Answers! question that used the same term. While I'd love to add something about it, there's nothing to be found. Was it a brand (ie, 'Coke')? A generic term for a drink type (ie, 'cola')? There's nothing to cite for verifiabilty about the original content of the page. If anyone finds stuff, even if they're completely uninterested in editing this tiny little page, they're free to just slap URLs and references (books ok if its found, even in a fiction book set during the 40s-60s) onto my talk page and I'll sort it out from there.--Thespian 19:31, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
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- I'd had the same thought (dad asks for namecheck, Candy makes it about the mixed drink, company augers into the ground as a result); the book with the mixed drink predating the movie makes that quite plausible. So we wind up with three heavily armed on-duty policemen in hot pursuit ordering vodka/rum cocktails... works for me! :-)
- But I agree; even though it's pretty clear that there is more than one thing called an "orange whip"—the cocktail, the machine-vended slushee, and possibly a bygone soda of some kind—there aren't any references (yet) to justify updating the article.--NapoliRoma 19:59, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
