• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There’s no clear origin to the name. Both tales on Wikipedia refer to using a screwdriver to stir the drink at work.

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      1 day ago

      While there’s no clear origin I can certainly tell you why they would keep calling it a screwdriver while hiding their drinking around their Arabian ESL colleagues

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        21 hours ago

        I had a professor who did complex math for energy exploration in Saudi Arabia and apparently you can legally buy a still permit if you have the cash to do so. That’s how all of the Saudi royalty gets behind prohibition I guess.