The Mickey Slim was a drink that had short-lived popularity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.[2] According to The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker,[3][4] it was made by combining gin with a pinch of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an insecticide that would later be banned in most countries; consumers of this concoction claimed that its effects were similar to absinthe.