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Hi,
Please, what article would you place before the cocktail in this sentence:
The barman did not know what goes into _ Slippery Nipple.
Thanks.
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That was a frightening title.
It would depend. Definite: the, indefinite: a.
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It was from a grammar test, no more context. So either is OK? The key says "a", but I doubt.
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It would almost certainly be "a" since we're assuming the speaker is referring to the standard slippery nipple everybody knows--Bailey's & butterscotch. It's the same as if one were to say: "The barman does not know what goes into a gin & tonic." "The barman does not know what goes into a cosmopolitan."
If, however, this were some kind of special or unique slippery nipple--perhaps a different recipe unique to a particular bar, then you could say "the slippery nipple" since the recipe can no longer be inferred simply by the name.
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And I've been told all my life that this was a "Buttery nipple"!
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A would be what I would use. You don't go around asking for ingredients for "the" martini or "the" Long Island iced tea, right?
And any bartender who doesn't know right off the bat how to make a slippery nipple should be out on his ass in the street, pronto!
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I had doubts because I thought a generic name should have "the".
OK, and if we take
_Slippery nipple is not among my favourites,
then, what article?
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You would use "the" in that sentence.
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