Mickey Slim

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The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. According to the The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker<ref>The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker (Dedalus, 2001) ISBN 1873982941. See also "In a green shade", Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian, December 15 2001</ref>, it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (also known as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.

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