On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:42:59 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

Bill Grey wrote:
Ken Fortenberry writes:
When you order a Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning in Minnesota
it comes with a snit. A snit is a little juice glass full of
draught beer for a chaser. It would be an interesting bit of
regional etymology to figure out how a beer chaser came to be
known as a snit.

Anyway, it's a damn good idea and the Bloody Mary's at the
Gunflint Tavern on the Lake are damn good too. For 8 bucks
you get a huge Bloody Mary with olives, pickle, celery and
a nice prawn perched on the side of the glass. And a snit.

Cheers from the north shore !!

Snit = 3ozs of beer.

Yeah, I know what a snit is, I just had one this morning
and I get one every time I order a Bloody Mary in Minnesota.

What I want to know is, how did a little glass of beer come
to be known as a snit ? I mean the definition you posted,
which is obviously correct, is not in any of my dictionaries
of American English. And my OED is at home.

Is it something they only do with Bloody Marys - if so, that sounds like some
weird version of a preparada/Michelada, the "Mexican" (really, much of the
Hispanic New World) beer and tomato juice drink, ala that ****-in-a-can from
Bud, "Chelada" (Bud and Clamato). There is a Mexican, Costa Rican, etc. drink
that's like a Bloody Mary, but with beer and tequila or beer and cacique/guaro -
is there any chance of this being an influence?

TC,
R