One of our local parks said they were having an "Old Fashion" bonfire. I would have said "Old Fashioned"

Is only one of these correct, or are both acceptable?

Depends, are they burning last year's haute couture? or just doing something that's old-fashioned?

LOL - that's what I was thinking, too. They need the -ed on that word, then?

Until this thread, I always thought the drink, the "old fashioned," was an "old fashion."

Hmm - why is that drink called an Old Fashioned?

Old joke:

1st person - I stop a baby from crying the old-fashioned way.

2nd person - How is that?

1st person - Whenever the baby cries, I make him an old-fashioned.

Funny!

CW, I looked a little for your answer but could only find recipes.

Hmm - they look pretty tasty . . . ever had one?

There is something about an old-fashioned
That kindles a cardiac glow;
It is soothing and soft and impassioned
As a lyric by Swinburne or Poe.
There is something about an old-fashioned
When the dusk has enveloped the sky,
And it may be the ice,
Or the pineapple slice,
But I strongly suspect it's the Rye.

- Ogden Nash (the poem includes stanzas in praise of the martini, mint julep, and highball)

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Originally posted by Kalleh: CW, I looked a little for your answer but could only find recipes.

Can I assume that you've "rounded up the usual suspects" of sources?

Thanks for the kick in the pants, Hic. No, I didn't go to the mother of all resources...the OED! There it was, big as you please: "The old-fashioned cocktail is said to have been invented in the late 19th cent. at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky. It was probably so named because of its similarity to early whisky cocktails." It apparently originated in 1895.