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ice-worm cocktail

• a cocktail, originally served in the Klondike, having as a basic ingredient ice-worms—actually bits of spaghetti or macaroni.

  See also: ice-worm  

  • 1910  You've never had an ice-worm cocktail? We must remedy that.
  • 1954  As we ate dinner a waiter came in with a tray of what he called "ice-worm cocktails," to the intense annoyance of the teetotalling Miss Lawson. Sure enough, the white worms, which we were told were considered a prime delicacy, could be seen at the bottom of each glass. They turned out, of course, to be spaghetti.
  • 1966  Miller . . . paused briefly from his arduous task of mixing the two local opiates--moose milk and ice-worm cocktails--for clamorous customers in his warm bistro on Whitehorse's main drag.