The "Trotty Special" is composed of Tanqueray, grapefruit and fresh lime juice. It's a mix often doled out at The Wheatsheaf Hotel – aka The Wheaty, in Thebarton, Adelaide – to a patron in need of a beverage that might be capable of righting the wrongs of the night before.

I've observed at first hand the recuperative effects of the Trotty Special, although a "fancy" of something tangy, aromatic and bitter in the pale ale department usually fixes me up.