grog

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According to Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that oversees the tower, a raven called Grog flew off in 1981 and was last seen outside an East End pub named the Rose and Punchbowl.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails locates the origins of Spanish coffee in Coffee Grog, a drink detailed by Pedro Chicote, a famed Spanish bartender, in his 1928 cocktail book.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

Ponche predated grog, the drink ordered by Admiral Edward "Old Grog" Vernon to replace the daily beer ration, which spoiled too quickly during long voyages and was too heavy to transport.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

Grog Shoppe, a onetime servants’ quarters at Devon House, serves Jamaican specialties and American staples.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2016

Not only were these colts strange-looking, shaggy, and awkward, but aside from the slight difference in their mutually diminutive heights— Grog was a hair shorter—they were identical.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand