When Richard makes the girl (MM) a martini, she suggests it might need sugar; he says no sugar in a martini, ever. She says they always put sugar in martinis back home in Denver, Colorado. They deliver the lines as if they're expecting to get laughs for. Sugar in martinis in Denver? I don't get it, what's the gag?
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It's like asking for salt to put in a screwdriver, it's unheard of. So he asked where she was from, expecting somewhere in BFE, which I expect Denver was back in 1955. I had a similar incident happen to me in the 80s in the Yukon where the bartender didn't know what a Seven and Seven was or drinking Coke with Jack Daniels.
I still hear attitudes from those east of the Mississippi about how uncultured we out West are. Some one recently told me how odd it was in a doctor's office they visited in Arizona because the doc had a potted cactus in the lobby and was wearing sandals. In the seventies, my exwife's aunt and uncle wouldn't come out this way for fear of Indians.
And when I visted the Catskills, i couldn't find a frozen margerita for the life of me.
Culturally, the East Coast and West Coast are like different countries.
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"In the seventies, my exwife's aunt and uncle wouldn't come out this way for fear of Indians."
The 1870s, right?
No, he's right. In the early 60s my grandmother went to visit her relatives in New York. She lived in Omaha, NE. They continually asked her how she dealt with Indians and wasn't she delighted to use a modern stove rather than having to use a wood fire. She took great delight in telling them her stove had home was five years newer and had twice the features as the one's they had.
In the early 70s my cousins from New York came out by train to visit. My youngest cousin was certain they were going to be killed by the constant tornadoes.
It was funny; and even funnier when the day they arrived we actually had a tornado that came very close to my grandparent's house.
Hard to believe people in modern times could be so naive, but I do believe it.
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