When is National Name Your Poison Day?
Thursday June 8thOn June 8th, there are a few options available before you and asks you to choose. In this case, the idiom can be a cautionary tale or it could be your bartender's way of asking you what you want to drink.
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"The new trend in Washington, D.C., asking a party what they should drink is – please nominate your poison, gentlemen," the Daily National Republican in Washington, D.C.'s March 24, 1864 edition said. The tale made its way to newspapers around the country, and by 1867 writers, people in Indiana attributed the colloquial term to people in Indiana.
Although "nominate your poison" refers to the beginnings of the temperance movement, the term seems to have mostly described the act of ordering the drink. Also in 1914, when the mayor of New Bavaria, Ohio, passed a bill requiring all drinkers to apply for drinking licenses, the term was common. The word comes in many ways – pick, choose, or name – and of course nominate your poison.
