Rock and Rye

In the film ''National Lampoon's Animal House'', Boon (Peter Riegert) orders a "double Rock and Rye and seven Carlings" at a bar. Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo by The Grateful Dead, lyrics by Robert Hunter references Rock and Rye in the lyrics. “Half a cup of rock and rye /Farewell to you old southern sky / I'm on my way” Rock and Rye has long been supposed to be a cure for various types of cold and flu. Damon Runyon mentions the belief in one of his tales of Prohibition New York, “The Three Wise Guys”: In the 1974 film (set in 1928) The Front Page, the day he resigned/the evening before he is set to get married and move to Philadelphia, Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (played by Jack Lemmon) shows up in The Press Room of the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago with multiple bottles of liquor to share with his fellow journalists. His replacement, Rudy Keppler (played by Jon Korkes) is asked to join them and responds by requesting, "Rock and Rye please." ==References==