{"id":911,"date":"2008-01-25T01:02:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/01\/stainless-steel.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T01:02:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T01:02:56","slug":"stainless-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Stainless Steel cocktail picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night while sipping an icy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chopinvodka.com\/\">Chopin vodka<\/a> martini, as I slid a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mezzetta.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=mezzetta&amp;Product_Code=10100108&amp;Category_Code=specolives\">plump, succulent olive<\/a> off the toothpick and between my waiting teeth, a thought occurred to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&quot;Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful to have metal toothpicks instead of wooden\/plastic ones?&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So I googled, and lo and behold, found these:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kosmonaut.net\/Cocktailians\/2008\/January\/picks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So elegant and chic!&nbsp; And they are 3.75-inches long, which means they hold a <em>lot<\/em> of olives.&nbsp; I&#8217;m an extra-olive person, so this is a bonus.&nbsp; And since they are reusable, that means I won&#8217;t be wasting wood or plastic.&nbsp; Also, there is an aesthetic pleasure in pushing a metal pick through an olive.&nbsp; It really enhances the whole cocktail experience.<\/p>\n<p>Want them for yourself?&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb2.com\/family.aspx?c=635&amp;f=1709\">Get them here<\/a>.&nbsp; $4.95 for a pair of six.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb2.com\/\">CB2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night while sipping an icy Chopin vodka martini, as I slid a plump, succulent olive off the toothpick and between my waiting teeth, a thought occurred to me: &quot;Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful to have metal toothpicks instead of wooden\/plastic ones?&quot; So I googled, and lo and behold, found these: So elegant and chic!&nbsp; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}