Crazy Drinks

[guajolote]

We've been discussing the Dr. Pepper:

1 beer

3/4 ounce amaretto

1/4 ounce 151

pour the amaretto into a shot glass, top with 151 and flambe. Drop shot glass into beer and chug

Here's another good one.

Cement Mixer:

Squeeze 1/4 lime into shot glass. Fill the glass slowly with Baileys (it should float on top). After drinking shot swirl it in your mouth to mix.

[CathyL]

Singapore Slings (youthful indiscretion).

Vodka with apple juice (incipient alkie boyfriend in college).

Beer/chocolate ice cream sodas (high school). Not bad, actually.

[Jaymes]

I mainly remember (speaking figuratively, of course) the infamous "Daquiri Parties" of my early years.

All that the host/hostess really needed was a house that had electricity. If they had some daquiri "fixin's" that was okay, but not required. Party-goers were expected to bring jugs of rum, cans of limeade, ice and several different "favorite" ingredients, as well as auxiliary blenders so we could have several going at once.

The thing was to try to bring the most exotic fruit to throw in. Everyone started off with strawberries, peaches, bananas. But nothing was off-limits. There'd be blueberries and raspberries and pineapples and mangos and kiwi and plums. And then we'd run out of the "normal" stuff, and begin rooting through the pantry, refrigerator and freezer for the "secondary" normal stuff: apples and grapes and canned fruit cocktail.

And then things would get desperate. I vaguely remember ending up one evening with "potato daquiris."

Ah, the good old days.

Edited February 6, 2003 by Jaymes (log)

[Varmint]

The drink we fondly referred to in high school as "The Mason Jar."

1 large mason jar

1/2 inch from every bottle of liquor in parents' liquor cabinet

cover and shake.

Mix with Mountain Dew. Drink copiously and surreptitiously. Vomit. Repeat. Mask breath with McDonald's french fries and Orange Bubble Yum; do not combine simultaneously.

[Schielke]

The Irish Car Bomb is always fun:

1/2 pint of Guinness

Shot of half Jameson and half Bailey's

Drop the shot like in the Dr. Pepper and chug it quick. It will be nice and creamy and f*@! you up.

Ben

[Blue Heron]

Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall .... anyone remember those? Yes, the good old days.

    - 1 part(s) Orange Juice

     - 1-1/2 oz Vodka

     - 1-2 splash(es) Sloe Gin

     - 1-2 splash(es) Southern Comfort

     - 1-2 splash(es) Galliano

[guajolote]

To this day I can not stand gin because too many Singapore Slings. My stomach gets upset if I walk by a Juniper bush.

We used to have garbage can parties where everyone would bring some liquor and pour it in a garbage can full of fruit and powdered gatorade stolen from the athletic department. No water, we didn't want to dilute it. It got ugly when someone added peppermint schnapps.

[CathyL]

My first experiment with intoxication involved everything but the Mason jar. I spent the night at a friend's house and we found the key to her dad's liquor closet and had a taste from every bottle. I have never been so sick in my life.

I might have gotten away with it, but when I trudged home the next day I couldn't come up with a good excuse for how I lost my retainer.

[Dave the Cook]

... I couldn't come up with a good excuse for how I lost my retainer.

You're lucky that's all you lost.

[Varmint]

PJ

Everclear

Cherry Kool Aid

[Batgrrrl]

Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall ....

Blue, we're still talking about drinks, right?

Anything remotely sunny-day-sky-colored is off my list. You only need to throw up that color once to swear off it forever.

And I too remember fondly the garbage pail parties in college. Or rather, I don't remember them, really, which is probably why I think of them fondly.

I think we've probably all got that one liquor that we just can't even stomach the smell of, anymore--for lots of my friends it was peach schnapps.

And Schielke, speaking of lovely mixes that f#&^ you up, one of my faves when I was in England was snakebite and black--half cider, half lager, and a shot of black currant juice. Yum, yum! Just sweet enough, highly poundable, and much more powerful than you think! But that doesn't really qualify for this list, because I will never give those up.

Batgrrrl (for whom this is her second post today about alcohol. Man, am I ever looking forward to the weekend!)

Edited: mee knot spel gud

Edited February 6, 2003 by Batgrrrl (log)

[LESider]

Long Island Ice Tea's- the drink that yells out: " watch out, amateurs approaching"

Thunderbird. fortified wine. Pouilly Fuse from the Derelict's Region.

[maggiethecat]

I think I've mentioned somewhere that in my late teens my parents gave me "drinking lessons", so that their daughter wouldn't grow up ordering rum and cokes.

So then, as now, I pretty much drink like a businessman.

For awhile, I did love that dry, fizzy Quebec hard cider you could buy at the depaneur. (St. Antoine Abbe?) It was cheap.

And some people here would argue that a Seagrams martini is something I should have given up long since!

(Note:Edited for obnoxious overuse of smilies)

Edited February 6, 2003 by maggiethecat (log)

[Jaymes]

Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall ....

Blue, we're still talking about drinks, right?

Because if not, that sounds like a contradiction in terms.

And I think it is a "drink" one can only have in one's youth, because in one's dotterage, one's knees would NEVER hold up.

Edited February 6, 2003 by Jaymes (log)

[maggiethecat]

highly poundable

Love it love it love it

[CathyL]

... I couldn't come up with a good excuse for how I lost my retainer.

You're lucky that's all you lost.

D the C's so dreamy.

Anyone else remember a noxious concoction called Malt Duck?

[guajolote]

Malt duck is is a combination of malt liquor and cold duck.

Yumm, does it taste like Champale?

[Varmint]

Growing up in Pennsylvania, we'd get bottles of Riunite. We'd drink a bit off the top, put the screw top back on, and then hide the bottle in a bank of snow for a week.

We were convinced this made the wine more alcoholic. It did make it somewhat fizzy.

The main drink I had in my youth was a Tom Collins. That, or a Flaming Orange Gulley.

[=Mark]

Reminds me of a waitress in a place I worked in years ago. She had decided that the constant drinking was not doing her any good so she decided to quit. She went dry for several months, then fell off the wagon one night really hard. Down in smoke and flames so to speak.

When she showed up late the following day, she was pretty much green about the gills and while holding her head woozily was heard to mutter: "So help me God I swear on all that's holy that I will never, never, EVER quit drinking again..."

[MsRamsey]

I remember parties in college where they'd serve Strip-N-Go-Nakeds. I have no idea what was in them, but they didn't taste good.

Watching frat boys do beer bongs was always fascinating in a Jane Goodall kind of way.

Edited February 6, 2003 by MsRamsey (log)

[Varmint]

Watching frat boys do beer bongs was always fascinating in a Jane Goodall kind of way.

[NeroW]

And I too remember fondly the garbage pail parties in college. Or rather, I don't remember them, really, which is probably why I think of them fondly.

Yep, I'm still running with the college crowd, and here reporting in from the Front. There are still a lot of these parties. But in these parts we call it jungle juice. The last jungle juice party I went to seemed more sophisticated: yes, there was the required giant blue Tupperware vat and fifty million empty gallons of booze next to it, and there was fruit--but someone had taken an actual melon baller and had filled the punch with melon balls! It was just delightful. I "just ate the fruit."

Outgrown: LIIT's, Snakebites, Kamikaze, French Kamikaze, The Three Wise Men, Irish Car Bomb, Gorilla Fart, Prairie Fire, Blue Motorcycle, Baby Guinness, Orange F***ers (don't ask), Jager Bomb, Berenjager, any Ouzo drink, White Russians, Black Russians, Blue Maui, Sex on the Beach, any drink that ends in -tini and has colored booze or chocolate syrup or anything in it but gin or vodka.

Have also outgrown the "keg stand": where you are held upside down by a bunch of other drunks over the keg, they stick the tap in your mouth and pour it down your throat until you collapse in a heap on the disgustingly dirty basement floor. I haven't seen a keg stand in a while! Or one of those beer helmets that you put on your head, put 2 beers in the special holders, and drink them rapidly through the long plastic tubes. But, I have been invited to a kegger tomorrow, will report back.

Edited February 6, 2003 by NeroW (log)

[Ron Johnson]

Hand Grenades at the Tropical Isle in New Orleans. I don't know what else they had in them besides pure grain alcohol, but they messed you up bad and fast.

The hangovers were especially brutal.

[Charles Smith]

California Cabernet

[Varmint]

If Zeb A were checking this thread, he may be willing to post about his fraternity's "Anal Chugs." I'll stop there.