Mickey Slim

{{Short description|Claimed cocktail combining gin and DDT}}

{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the Mickey Finn.}}

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| name = Mickey Slim

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| type = cocktail

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| gin = yes

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| ingredients = *One part gin

• A pinch of DDT

| prep = Stir the DDT into the gin and serve

| notes = DDT is not very soluble in gin, so only a small quantity will dissolve. DDT has been linked to various health problems in humans.{{Cite journal |last=Eskenazi |first=Brenda |date=May 4, 2009 |title=The Pine River Statement: Human Health Consequences of DDT Use |journal=Environmental Health Perspectives |volume=117 |issue=9 |pages=1359–1367 |doi=10.1289/ehp.11748 |pmc=2737010 |pmid=19750098|bibcode=2009EnvHP.117.1359E }}

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The Mickey Slim was a drink claimed to have been consumed by some in the United States in the 1940s or 1950s.{{Cite web |title=Mickey Slim: Delicious World of Cocktail |url=http://cocktails.gourmetrecipe.com/cocktails-with-gin-mickey-slim_l54 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140412005453/http://cocktails.gourmetrecipe.com/cocktails-with-gin-mickey-slim_l54 |archive-date=April 12, 2014 |access-date=June 7, 2012 |website=zcocktails}}{{better source |reason=That whole website is a dead link and the archive shows it was not a very substantial article. It was only 4 sentences long, and it cites The Dedalus Book of Absinthe (already cited in this article) as its real source of information. |date=December 2022}} According to the 2001 book The Dedalus Book of Absinthe,{{Cite book |last=Baker |first=Phil |title=The Dedalus Book of Absinthe |publisher=Dedalus |year=2001 |isbn=1-873982-94-1}}{{Cite news |last=Lezard |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Lezard |date=December 15, 2001 |title=In a green shade |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/15/historybooks.highereducation2 |access-date=February 4, 2019}} it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction reportedly claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.{{citation needed |date=December 2022}}

Due to a lack of documentary evidence, it has been questioned whether this is a modern urban legend rather than a historical reality.{{Cite web |last=Koerner |first=Brendan |author-link=Brendan I. Koerner |date=June 9, 2010 |title=The Myth of the Mickey Slim |url=http://www.microkhan.com/2010/06/09/the-myth-of-the-mickey-slim/ |access-date=January 28, 2012}} As of January 2023, the earliest reference on Newspapers.com to the drink is in the television listing for a 1992 episode of Pandora's Box, a BBC documentary series.{{cite news |title=Thursday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116800154/earliest-reference-to-the-mickey-slim/ |access-date=19 January 2023 |work=The Observer |date=28 June 1992 |location=London UK |format=Newspapers.com}}

This beverage should not be confused with the knockout drink known as the Mickey Finn.