Ladies place setting

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A lady's place setting (also called a pony ) is originally the combination of an alcoholic drink with a non-alcoholic one.

In the bars and nightclubs of the 20th century, but also in many bourgeois dance halls, an inexpensive standard drink that consisted of a piccolo bottle of sparkling wine and orange juice was called a ladies' place setting. In contrast, the men's place setting usually contained a sparkling wine and a beer or a beer and a grain .

As a ladies' place setting, there were also combinations of sparkling wine with other alcoholic drinks, especially sparkling wine with eggnog . In some cafes and tourist restaurants a piece of cake with a coffee and an alcoholic drink was also called this, e.g. B. Black Forest cake with amaretto or kirsch .

Until the 1970s, there was a corresponding requirement to set covers in many dance halls , especially in cases where no admission was charged. So not only in the red light district was the fee of the musicians and the dancers financed through the “compulsory purchase of a sales-securing drink double” ( Udo Pini ).

Today numerous other variations can also be found in discos and trendy bars under this name: whiskey and cream liqueur z. B. Or a mixed beer drink and a peach liqueur. The Berlin taz columnist Jenni Zylka describes in one of her columns a trendy drink, also known as "Russian Coke", consisting of vodka with a lemon wedge turned in sugar and coffee powder as a ladies' place and the Berlin restaurateur Günter Windhorst (operator of the lounge & bar of the same name) mentioned 2004 in an interview with the Berliner Tagesspiegel about the trends in the bar scene, a completely different combination for a “typical ladies place setting”, namely “a box of cigarettes, a glass of tap water and a Cosmopolitan ”.

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