What to do with an excess....of.....milk
It is something of a truism that in many parts of the world you end up with an excess of some sort of foodstuff. If is not surprising, therefore, that excess apples become Scrumpy / Cider, excess Pears become Calvados and excess potatoes become Vodka. I'm sure there are countless other examples as well.And what do we have an excess of in Ireland ? (apart from rain)....Milk...gallons of the stuff.It was only in 1974 that the now world-famous brand was invented. The distilling company also owned a dairy...and in a great bit of lateral thinking, Bailey's was born. It got the name from a bar in Dublin that the inventors often frequented in the course of the drink's development.Legend has it that the drink became known across the world by the company liberally plying every Air Lingus Stewardess they could find with the stuff. If anyone is going to sing the drinks' merits it would be a drunk...
