Eggnog 1941 film "The Great Mr. Nobody". Tom and Jerry drinks are mentioned in the 1960 film "The Apartment". In the 1989 film "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" film, the fictional characters Clark Griswold and Cousin Eddie are depicted drinking egg nog out of Wally World mugs, an inside joke which makes reference to the fictional theme park featured in an earlier National Lampoon movie. In the 1990 movie "Die Hard 2", John McClane wishes he could have a normal Christmas with eggnog rather than crawling through a ventilation duct. Eggnog Eggnog , egg nog or egg-nog, historically also known (when alcoholic
Eggnog was in 1775, when Maryland clergyman and philologist Jonathan Boucher wrote a poem about the drink which was not published until 30 years after his death: "Fog-drams i' th' morn, or (better still) egg-nogg, / At night hot-suppings, and at mid-day, grogg, / My palate can regale..." The first printed use of the term appeared in the "New-Jersey Journal" of March 26, 1788, which referred to a young man drinking a glass of eggnog. An 1869 dictionary entry for "egg nog" defines it as a mixture of wine, spirits, eggs and sugar; there is no mention of dairy products. "While