Comments on: The recipe for “Sherlock Holmes”

By: Harsha

Harsha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:52:54 +0000

Opening beer bottle with teeth is common in the US-esp,corona bottle caps are opened by twisting

By: lekhni

lekhni — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:18:01 +0000

Thanks. “We can but try.”

By: km

km — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:04:29 +0000

Good stuff. You just saved me ten bucks.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:40:43 +0000

Lekhni: My comment was clearly not very clear either. I meant that since Conan Doyle created him as an Englishman, the mockney Englishman Ritchie had to introduce something Scots into his character. And as I said, it really is a “modern” twist as the beer bottles then had a “banta” cap which if opened with one’s teeth would land a whole lot of ceramic dust in one’s mouth.

By: lekhni

lekhni — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:29:50 +0000

Sorry, I should have been clearer – I’m not sure if Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes ever opened a bottle cap with his teeth – it’s only Guy Ritchie’s who did. For all of the original Holmes’ eccentricities, I cannot imagine him doing anything like that.

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:25:34 +0000

Conan Doyle, a Scottish author, created Sherlock Holmes, a bohemian sleuth, portrayed every bit as an Englishman. Surely there had to be something Scots about him. That is probably the opening-the-beer-with-the-teeth part. Scottish men look and probably are tougher, although also fabulous in kilts but I digress. Besides in Holmes’s time, beer caps were like “banta” caps and not of the modern kind requiring an opener so it wasn’t so hard. Now if Ritchie has missed this canny historic detail, shame on him since he is a publican in Mayfair.