If you've been around OC restaurants as long as I have, you quickly realize that the best juice brand of them all is Perricone Juices–case closed. Their OJ is an orange-crate label come to life; apple juice is light, sweet, and spectacular; the lemonade sparkles like a day under the shade in a grove. What I always forget, though, is that Perricone Juices is also OC all the way, with family members still running the business and living around the county; its legendary, late patriarch, Sam Perricone kept a house in Sunset Beach for decades that remains in the famiglia.
How OC is Perricone Juices? The chi-chi Diamond Club at Angel Stadium has a drink named after the company's director of marketing, Sammy Perricone (grandson of Sam), aptly titled Sammy's Squeeze, aptly containing Perricone lemonade.
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Sweet is the name of the game for Sammy's Squeeze, which also features citron-flavored vodka and Chambord, the latter giving the drink a pinkish hue and a savory bottom. And while it goes down as smooth as punch, don't underestimate the power of the Squeeze: the Diamond Club bartenders make sure that the jiggers of vodka and Chambord assert themselves against Perricone's wonderful lemonade. And while it's only exclusive right now to the Diamond Club ( and you can only get into the Diamond Club if you know a Godfather like I do–but that's another story…), I'm sure ol' Sammy wouldn't mind if you tried to make it at home. Try it, and raise a toast to the host with the most…um, awesome juice!
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