Last night during my all-nighter as I was chasing down a wild deadline, I found myself tweeting in the early hours of the morning (Bulgarian time) and encountered this tweet by author Kelly Link*:
Looking up drinks you make w/ cloudberry liquor. There is a drink called Kitten Cuddler, but we do not have creme de banane. So: Golden Sip.
— kellylink (@haszombiesinit) January 17, 2014
Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but I really started thinking about why a cocktail would be named the Kitten Cuddler (pretty random name). My brain was trying to find a correlation between kitten fur and banana crème. Anyway, somehow the conversation led to this tweet:
@HaralambiMarkov why not the Octopus Cuddler? i would try that.
— kellylink (@haszombiesinit) January 17, 2014
Which very well should be a cocktail. I strongly believed this, so I responded with this:
@haszombiesinit Give me a day and I will make you a drink recipe called just that.
— Harry Markov (@HaralambiMarkov) January 17, 2014
And this is the story of how I got around to inventing Kelly Link’s Octopus Cuddler at around 5:30 in the morning while still having a mile to go with my work and caffeine coursing through my overworked brain. I’m calling it Kelly Link’s Octopus Cuddler because she is the original inspiration behind the recipe.
