Talk:Moscow mule

Copper cup
I have a Copper Cup with Moscow Mule name on both sides...BUT it has two mules kicking up their heels in between the "Moscow and Mule" name. The bottom has AMERICAN METALCRAFT CHICAGO 41. Can anyone tell me about this cup. It doesn't indicate it is from the Cock and Bull.
 * I wondered about that as well - I'd heard (albeit from a source that would be impossible to verify) that the Moscow Mule was invented by advertising execs in Chicago as part of a promotional campaign meant to push sales of a new brand of vodka. Your cup is the best piece of evidence to support this that I've heard of.Cknoepke (talk) 20:16, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Angostura Bitters
I hear this is a standard addition. But there's no mention here. What?

Garnish
I just edited the page to replace the reference to garnish with a sprig of mint with directions to garnish with a wedge or slice of lime. Every Moscow Mule I've ever been served had a lime garnish. The sidebox synopsis of preparation indicates lime as the garnish. The video shows a lime being used as the garnish. Every one of the references at the bottom of the article also referred to the drink being garnished with lime. I think it is a pretty clear case of fixing an error. William McVey 3 December 2014.

I added the bit about Mistletoe Mule w/ Garnish of Rosemary & Cranberry. this IS a thing, unsourced or not, and if I am reverted AGAIN by some overzealous teenage male, I do intend to go to the mattresses. Unless you can show sources for *standardized, authoritative* versions of ALL THE OTHER variants here then do not mess with me or with Jax Cafe where I FIRST enjoyed this ingenious variation, because it is like a Christmas Tree in a glass! Skates61 (talk) 03:37, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

In popular culture
According to guidelines, "In popular culture" sections "should contain only properly sourced examples that are bona fide cultural references" ("In popular culture" content). I think all the listings are nothing more than trivia - merely examples of fictional characters that drank a Moscow mule. (And only one is properly sourced.) Listed below for discussion. Deli nk (talk) 12:13, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
 * In the radio play Adventures of Philip Marlow: Young Man's Fancy
 * In the book One Night in Vegas, Fletcher Ford is drinking a Moscow mule out of a traditional copper mug and uses it to seduce character Talia Perizkova.
 * In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 7 episode 7, "Once More into the Breach", Ezri Dax orders a Moscow mule from Quark after he offered her advice on the feelings she was grappling with for the husband of her previous host.
 * In the Better Call Saul season 2 episode, "Bali H'ai", Schweikart, a founding partner of Kim Wexler's opposing firm, treats her to an upscale lunch to recruit her, orders a Moscow mule in a copper mug, and offers her one, too. She declines both the mid-day drink, which she calls "vintage", and the job offer, but tacitly acknowledges Schweikart's message that the freedom to drink during a working lunch symbolizes the firm's larger offer of freedom to "spread her wings", in a firm unlike HHM's restrictive, unsupportive environment. Later that evening, Kim orders herself a Moscow mule at a bar, and then calls Jimmy to help her fleece a philanderer who is hitting on her.
 * In the first episode of Ash vs Evil Dead (2015), Ash walks into a bar, spots a girl sitting alone and says: "Send me down a Moscow mule and two of whatever the lady is having."
 * The Real Housewives of New York City (Season 8, episode 4) Bethenny Frankel served Moscow mules with her Skinnygirl Vodka at her birthday party in Bridgehampton.
 * In Fargo (TV Series) (Season 3 Episode 09), Officer Winnie Lopez orders a Moscow mule while bonding with "old chief" Gloria Burgle at the end of the episode.

Mead mule
Oldest alcoholic drink known to be had. (Moonshine University). made with vodka, ginger beer and topped with hibiscus mead. Enjoyed by Viking people. 2600:6C44:39F0:9840:2065:D682:816B:7ADB (talk) 13:44, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

To add to article
Basic information to add to this article (which I can't believe isn't already mentioned here, and which is something anyone reading this article would expect to find here, especially as we claim our articles are encyclopedic): the origin/etymology of the name "mule" as it relates to this drink. That is, why exactly is it called "mule"?? Is it because the liquor is said to give this drink a "kick" like a mule? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 03:08, 3 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Do you have a reliable source in mind that would support that addition?  signed, Willondon (talk)  15:10, 3 February 2024 (UTC)