Saturday, August 07, 2004

Low-carb Mojitos--beware of aftertaste

Having recently turned 21 I feel that I ought to take some interest in the NY nightlife scene. Reading up on new places to check out, I discovered that there are now low-carb cocktails. "NY Metro" (NY magazine online) reports:

"Good news for the carb-starved masses on Atkins and South Beach: Trump's ritzy World Bar has introduced low-carb cocktails ($12). The drink recipes aren't complicated—use a sugar substitute instead of the real thing (or mix it with water to make a low-carb simple syrup in the case of the mojito). Though the after-taste of the low-carb concoctions is reminiscent of Crystal Light, while you're drinking they taste like the real thing. In a not-so-scientific test (our eyes were closed, we swear), we could barely tell the difference."

Do people who order $12 low-carb cocktails do so out of some desire to be parodied five to ten years later as a relic of a moment in time when $12 cocktails and low-carb everything ruled the city? These drinks already sound a little silly, but will only sound sillier when everyone decides to cut, say, protein, and the city's a dump again and everyone's just drinking normal-carb liquor on streetcorners.

2 comments:

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

Atkins in general strikes me as an awful idea, regardless of what one overpays, or doesn't, in order to follow it.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

And Manhattan socialites (or at least Manhattanites--the socialites might object if I included myself among them) are already getting ripped off. I recently caught myself spending $4 on an iced cappuccino, which somehow seems vastly worse than the usual $3.25.