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Bloody Eyeball Martini
Halloween
Drink Recipes
Ingredients for Bloody Eyeball Martini
2 oz gin or vodka
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 olive eyeball
Instructions
1. Place gin and vermouth in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Gently shake and pour, straining the ice, into a martini glass
3. Garnish with an olive eyeball.
Prepare ice "eyeballs"
per eyeball:
1 radish
1 pimiento stuffed green olive
The "eyeballs"
should be prepared a day before your plan on
use them.
Step 1: Peel radishes, leaving thin
streaks of red skin on to represent
blood vessels.
Step 2: Using the tip of the vegetable peeler
or a small, knife, carefully scoop
out a small hole in each radish, roughly
the size of an olive.
Step 3: Stuff a green
olive, pimiento side out, in each
hole.
Step 4: Place 1 radish eyeball in each
section of an empty ice cube tray.
Pare the radishes down a bit to fit,
if necessary. Fill the tray with
water and freeze overnight.
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The History of Halloween
 Halloween
is a holiday celebrated on the night of October
31, usually by children dressing in costumes and
going door-to-door collecting candy. It is celebrated
in much of the Western world, though most commonly
in the United States, the United Kingdom, the
Republic of Ireland, Canada and sometimes in Australia
and New Zealand. Irish, Scots and other immigrants
brought older versions of the tradition to North
America in the 19th century. Most other Western
countries have embraced Halloween as a part of
American pop culture in the late 20th century.
The form "Halloween" derives from Hallowe'en,
an old contraction, still retained in Scotland,
of "All Hallow's Eve," so called as
it is the day before the Catholic All Saints holy
day, which used to be called "All Hallows,"
derived from All Hallowed Souls. In Ireland, the
name was Hallow Eve and this name is still used
by some older people. Halloween was formerly also
sometimes called All Saints' Eve. The holiday
was a day of religious festivities in various
northern European pagan traditions, until it was
appropriated by Christian missionaries (along
with Christmas and Easter, two other traditional
northern European pagan holidays) and given a
Christian reinterpretation. Halloween is also
known as the Day of the Dead, and it is a day
of celebration for Wiccans and other modern pagan
traditions, though the holiday has lost its religious
connotations among the populace at large.
Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some
parts of Ireland, presumably named after the pookah,
a mischievous spirit.
In the United Kingdom in particular, the pagan
Celts celebrated the Day of the Dead on Halloween.
The spirits supposedly rose from the dead and,
in order to attract them, food was left on the
doors. To scare off the evil spirits, the Celts
wore masks. When the Romans invaded Britain, they
embellished the tradition with their own, which
is the celebration of the harvest and honoring
the dead. These traditions were then passed on
to the United States.
Halloween is sometimes associated with the occult.
Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween
is one of the "liminal" times of the
year when the spirit world can make contact with
the natural world and when magic is most potent
(see, for example, Catalan mythology about witches).
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