Eggnog and health concerns, regarding the fat and sugar content of the drink. Eggnog is described in the 1932 novel "Cold Comfort Farm" (chapter 21) as a "Hell's Angel", made with an egg, two ounces of brandy, a teaspoonful of cream, and some chips of ice, where it is served as breakfast. Tom and Jerry, a hot eggnog cocktail, is described in Damon Runyon's 1932 story "Dancing Dan's Christmas". Tom and Jerry drinks are described in Yogi Yorgesson's 1949 novelty song "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas" and characters drink Tom and Jerrys in the 1940 film "Beyond Tomorrow" and the
Eggnog Dictionary", "nog" was "a kind of strong beer brewed in East Anglia". The first known use of the word "nog" was in 1693. Alternatively, "nog" may stem from "noggin", a Middle English term for a small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol. However, the British drink was also called an "Egg Flip", from the practice of "flipping" (rapidly pouring) the mixture between two pitchers to mix it. One dictionary lists the word "eggnog" as being an Americanism invented in 1765-75. Babson College professor Frederick Douglass Opie "wrote that the term is a combination of two colonial slang words —