The Unlikely Cocktail Born In Egypt During World War II

At this point, you may well be wondering, "How exactly did the Suffering Bastard help win a war of battle tactics and soldier-to-soldier combat prowess against Nazi Germany"? Well, at the very least the drink is credited with being a "morale booster," as Sofrep says. Although to be honest, someone could have probably bottled the

At this point, you may well be wondering, "How exactly did the Suffering Bastard help win a war of battle tactics and soldier-to-soldier combat prowess against Nazi Germany"? Well, at the very least the drink is credited with being a "morale booster," as Sofrep says. Although to be honest, someone could have probably bottled the stuff, stuffed a rag down the neck, and made a combat-ready Bastardized Cocktail to rival the typical Molotov version. It would have been wasteful, sure, and perhaps not as effective at emboldening troops as intoxication. But you know, the option is always there with flammable liquids.

Another way the Suffering Bastard might have ameliorated suffering? By circularly curing hangovers caused by earlier visits to Scialom's bar, as Windharma postulates. The hangover-curing powers of alcohol are of course a complete myth regardless of the type of drink (explained by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism), but at the very least Scialom's drink might have helped keep troops calm, distracted, or loose.

Or, perhaps the truth of the matter lies in Scialom himself, who may have imbued more than a bit of his own powers of charisma into his drink. There's a reason we've got so many cultural stereotypes about folks unloading their woes, drunkenly, onto the ears of a cheaper-than-average therapist, i.e., a bartender. In that way, all it might take is one especially person-savvy bartender to help turn the tide of a world-shaking conflict.

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