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This cultural hangover of masking the alcoholic equivalent of a “sports utility vehicle” endures to this day on suburban chain-restaurant drink menus populated by sugary bombs that get drinkers lit on the cheap. This in turn carries over to bars like Hauge’s, where customers new to craftcocktails assume they run saccharine.
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