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Here’s a Government-Sanctioned Cocktail Chart, Circa 1974

How to fix a drink, according to the U.S. Forestry Service

By Matthew Reitman
April 22, 2016 12:01 am EDT

The U.S. Forestry Service produced a cocktail chart in the 1970s that was added to the National Archives in 2008. Esquire believes that the U.S.F.S. employee who created it did it just for fun.

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