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Relax with a cocktail inside or on our outside deck Blue Liquor is Really

& watch the busiest “boat road” around Lake St. Clair! Orange

While enjoying

a lunch break

at Decker’s

Landing on the

Live Music! Great Service! North Channel,

the bartender

Grilled Mahi tacos, huge loaded burgers, was making the

fresh salads, daily specials, nachos, and more! Check out our typical color of
weekly Lake St. Clair
Decker’s Landing TDOhOvaeCnrKk2sA5G’ E blue drink for
& Lounge entertainment someone. I’m not sure
& specials why, but I made it a
- On the North Channel - policy a long time ago
Near the Entrance PDBrOoatCseiKcntAoeGdf E when having cocktails
to Lake St. Clair to keep myself in the
Google Maps upright position that
9081 Anchor Bay Drive I would never drink a
Clay Twp. (Algonac) blue drink.
810-794-3852
Well, in front of me
$1/foot winter boat
storage w/ service

Continued from Pg. 60 - ed a TV show in the 1980’s on was a bottle of Blue

Fishing Secrets of a Leg- Channel 56 called the Creel Curacao. I glanced at the label and was surprised
end ...and has “rowed” a Report, sponsored by Kmart. to see a picture of an orange on this blue bottle. I
At 19, Bob was in the Ar- guess if I had ordered a Blue Hawaii at some point,
boat across Anchor Bay many

times. He chartered for over my’s 4th Calvary and was I may have known that Blue Curacao is an orange liqueur. I discov-
40 years, fished Muskie in present at the D-Day WWII ered you can buy the “Curacao” in a variety of colors such as clear,
100’s of lakes and rivers invasion at Normandy in green, red, and orange; but, the most popular color is blue. They all
around the upper Midwest to 1944. He was a POW (which taste the same, they are just dyed in vacation colors to make it more
Kentucky, and was inducted actually was a very lucky ex- exciting to drink.
Another thing which I didn’t know, the pronunciation is Cu·ra·çao
into the Fresh Water Hall of perience and only lasted one (ko͝ or′ə-sou′) and it is an island just off Venezuela in the Caribbean.
Fame in 2005. He also host- day), but was wounded in bat-

And, another tidbit for trivia, this small island is also the newest hotbed

lintaei“mMYitnroero.utyphMohheuuaywvspfkaieusitahteeryse”ohvuo.e.rrt..yat in the last decade to produce great players for Major League Baseball.
According to the FDA in 2015, the FD&C Blue No. 1 used in Cura-

cao is a water-soluble dye and is allowed by the FDA for use in foods,
drugs and cos-
metics. There

have been no Efficient use of dock space at this house

reports of tox-

icity associated

with this gener-

al use, however,

other advocacy

organizations

have argued

this and other

Our charter captain, Mr. Muskie - Kevin Backus artificial col-
orings may be

“It is important to use a tle requiring 15 months in linked to atten-
rod big enough to handle a hospital. He was award- tion deficit dis-
a Muskie, or it may not ed the Purple Heart. Bob order (ADD)…
survive when you return wrote about his experi-
it to the water – Use a reel ences in his book “Forev- is that the blue
er with Me” which is
dye or the Blue

for the fish you are after” Hawaii causing

... Muskie Bob Cont. on next page..... that?

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