![]() ![]() McGowan's firm represents the seven brands of Irish whiskey that come into this county. "We would like them to drop the word 'whiskey' when they order 'Irish.' A lady doesn't come into a bar and say, 'Scotch whisky,' she says 'Scotch' and names a brand." Ireland for McGowan is "a place where people will take the time to stop and talk, where they put booze in a gracious setting and the troubles in the North are ignored."īut he was here to sell whiskey, and to enhance its image. "The Irish never use one word when 10 will do it is the birthplace of literature." McGowan talked of Ireland with seas of green, mist-covered hills, and of her poets and writers. The clinking of glasses derives from the belief that the sound drives out evil spirits." "Do it in a way that is most comfortable for you. "There is a basic rule of toasting," McGowan said. He sipped his fourth cup of coffee and went back to toasts: "A graceful thought adds more flavor to a drink than toasted bread." The waiter, now feeling a kinship, touted a couple of local Irish pubs to McGowan, who although he sells whiskey doesn't look like he uses it too much. When you're out selling something you're polite to everyone, so McGowan told him, "A suburb of Dublin, my wife and I have a little house and a son and a daughter." The hovering waiter looked vrey Irish and proved it when he invited himself into the conversation by asking McGowan where he was from in Ireland. By the 18th century, the word, 'toast,' when used in connection with a drink, had taken on its present meaning." "The toast itself began as early as the 16th century, when people actually flavored their drinks with pieces of toasted bread. The 39-year-old, husky, exrugby player who donated some of his features to the game) talked about toasting as he sipped from a cup of coffee. McGowan, who is a vice president of the Irish Distillers Group in Dublin, Ireland, and a self-proclaimed expert on Irish toasts, stopped by the other day to tell a few stories, propose a few toast and take the curse off Irish whiskey. These are the sayings Jack McGowan might use in proposing a "good wish" toast as he peeks around to see if everyone is holding an Irish whiskey. May the crows never pick your hay stack and may your donkey always be in fool." May the outside leaves of your cabbage always be free of scorns, ![]()
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