by Bo McDonald
We all know that James Bond’s preferred Martini is “Shaken, not stirred.” Sean Connery first made that order as Bond in the movie Goldfinger. But a recent article in The Atlantic dumps that perfect Martini on the bar. It’s not the traditional question of “Shaken or Stirred.” The Keefer Bar in downtown Vancouver is adding a third option for preparing Martinis: Vibrated.
“No matter how inventive a bartender may be when it comes to choosing ingredients, she still has a limited number of ways to mix them.” Sounds a lot like credit unions. No matter how inventive our marketing message is, we all still offer the same ingredients right?
But the Keefer bartender has a theory: vibrations of the right frequency will cause the molecules in a drink to rearrange themselves in curious ways, thereby altering or enhancing the flavor. Though I can’t vouch for the truth or lack thereof of this theory, the reporter who covered this story for The Atlantic gave his two cents. “I sipped. And I was pretty convinced that the two drinks tasted subtly different, with the tuning-fork variant a hint brighter and livelier.”
