An alcoholic drink made of bourbon, whiskey or sometimes brandy or rum, sugar, crushed mint leaves, and shaved ice. Really, any alcohol would probably do, as long as it gets you a buzz. Right? Its a classic southern beverage, but during the american Prohibition era it was everywhere.
Charise sat out on the porch one hot evening and sipped her mint julep lightly
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)