7 and 7

Happy Thirsty Thursday!

Drink:

7 and 7

Recipe:

1 shot Seagram's Seven Crown Blended Whiskey
7-Up Lemon Lime Soda
Lemon Wedge

Fill a Highball or Collins glass with ice. Add Seagram's Seven Crown. Top off with 7-Up. Garnish with Lemon Wedge and serve.

Description:

The sizes of those bottles are all wrong.

Unlike most simple two-ingredient cocktails (rum and coke, vodka tonic, screwdriver, ect.) in which only the type of spirit and mixer are important, the 7 and 7 draws its name from the use of two specific brands of beverages.

Indeed, its all but impossible to get the same flavor out of a different blended whiskey and lemon lime soda. For example:

Big K Lemon Lime Soda and Rich and Rare Canadian Whisky (Big and Rare) costs less but tastes like Satan's morning piss after a hard night out.

Sierra Mist and Bushmills Irish Whiskey (Mist and Bush) is a touch more expensive but actually tastes like something you might want to drink.

Limca and Red Knight Indian Whisky (Cultural Isolationism and Molasses) just gives you immediate heartburn.

Simply speaking, nothing can match the sheer mediocrity of the 7 and 7.

Pop Culture:

Given its nature, there really cannot exist variants of the 7 and 7. Instead, I give you a list of its many, many references in pop culture, thanks (as usual, you lazy bastard) to Wikipedia.

• In the 1973 film Mean Streets, Teresa (played by Amy Robenson) orders a Seven and Seven.
• In the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta's character orders a Seven and Seven.
• In the 1973 novel Stand On It, the protagonist Stroker Ace refers several times to Seven and Seven as "the drink that makes better drivers out of all of us."
• In the film Goodfellas, Robert De Niro's character orders a Seven and Seven.
• In the television series The OC, various members of the Atwood family are seen drinking Seven and Sevens. In the premiere episode, Ryan Atwood orders one at the fashion show. In "The Gamble", Dawn Atwood orders one at the Casino night. In The OC, Trey Atwood orders one at a bar in Chino.
• In the third season of the HBO series The Sopranos, in the episode The Telltale Moozadell, Jackie Aprile, Jr. orders one at the Bada Bing strip club.
• In the "Casino Night" episode of The Office, Ryan orders a "Seven and Seven with 8 maraschino cherries and sugar on the rim, blended if you can," for his girlfriend Kelly.
• In the opening scene of "The Nanny From Hell" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry jokingly orders a Seven and Seven from the plumber working on the bar in his restaurant, leading to an awkward moment.
• In the January 30, 2007 publication of the webcomic Achewood the character Ray telephones the character Roast Beef in the middle of the night in a fit of "sleep-chillin'" to offer him a Seven and Seven.
• In the 2000 film The Perfect Storm, the ship owner refers to a Seven and Seven.
• In the 2002 tv series Third Watch Episode 212, Tatiana orders a Seven and Seven on her first date With Sully (Officer Sullivan).
• In the 2008 film Burn After Reading, Ted Treffon (played by Richard Jenkins) sits and orders a Seven and Seven after being rejected by Linda Litzke.
• In the song "Vices", by Silverstein the lyrics reference a Seven and Seven with a lime.
• In the 2010 song "7 & 7", by Turnpike Troubadours the lyrics reference a Seven Up and Seagrams.
• In the NBC comedy Community, Troy orders it as his first drink at a bar after turning 21, despite two friends having previously mocked the drink.
• In the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother Episode 621, Jerome Whittaker (played by John Lithgow) asks for a Seven and Seven at the bar.
• In the 2010 episode of the television show Mad Men, Season 4, Episode 6, "Waldorf Stories", Joey Baird (played by Matt Long) asks for a 7&7 in the conference room when the Life cereal client cancels a meeting before the CLIO's.
• In the 2011 film Bridesmaids, Rita orders two double seven and sevens on the plane for herself and Becca.
• In the 2011 song "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" by The Weeknd, he wants everybody to drink some "seven on seven".