Posted on 03/16/2011 7:19:03 PM PDT by Bean Counter
Just for fun, what is the strangest, worst, best or most unusual adult beverage you have ever seen or even heard about being mixed up and consumed?
This is one of those threads that could go on for quite a while....have fun!
I would have to ask what you do for an encore? Drive a car off a cliff? Put on a $10,000 suit, and Rolex, and go for a midnight stroll through South Chicago?
Reminds me of a story about high school kids at a party who found a wine bottle in their parents refrigerator and started passing it around. The first one who drank immediately fell to the floor, began spasms, and puking up blood, sooo the next kid takes it and drinks from it and...well you can probably figure it out from there. Turns out the bottle was Sulfuric (?) Lye (?) acid the parents used to make pretzels. Ended up killing 2 of them, and putting 6 more in the hospital.
I’m sorry even as a kid, if I saw someone drink something, and immediately fall to the floor and puke blood, I’m sure wouldn’t have grabbed the bottle and followed suite. Talk about sheep.
Yeah, those ‘con’ drinks done by sci-fi fans...look out!
There are a couple I know of done by sci-fi and fantasy fans (among them being my sister). The first one is the ‘signature drink’ of RadCon, the sci-fi-con held every year in the Tri-Cities, WA. (You will rembeer, the Tri-Cities is the home of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation).
The drink is known as “Toxic Waste”. As for the ingredients, they are a closely-guarded secret. I CAN tell you that it involves fruit, fruit juice, and approximately 3 or 4 kinds of spirits. I was priveledged once to take part in the preparation of a batch of “Toxic Waste” by rolling and peeling the fruit (oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and limes) that went in it. I was not permitted, however, to observe the mixing of the concoction, which was done behind closed doors in the hotel room’s bathroom. Even the empty bottles were covered so as not to reveal their contents.
What makes “Toxic Waste” fun is that it can only be served in the “official bucket”. It’s a 5-gallon white food-grade plastic bucket plastered with warning stickers taken directly from the Hanford site, stickers such as “Biological Hazard”, “Radiological Danger”, and so on.
As a final touch, a block of dry ice is carefully inserted into the mixed concoction to allow cooling of the drink...not to mention the eeirie fog that overflows the side and adds that ‘special touch’. It is said that if one drinks nothing but “Toxic Waste”, they will not experience a hangover, no matter how plastered they get.
As far as I know, this has YET to be proven.
The second drink is also a mixture, and it’s called “Dreamberry Wine”. The recipe isn’t a secret, but I can’t remember all of the the ingedients. I DO remember it involves Mad Dog 20/20, gin, grape juice, and huckleberries that that have been soaked in Everclear for 6 weeks. The standard warning is “Don’t eat the berries”...which of course, everyone does. Very delicious, deceptively smooth, and will knock you on your ass if you’re not careful.
I Also now have the ACTUAL inbgredients list for Dreamberry Wine: White wine, purple gatorade, blue curacao, 7up, Blackhaus schnapps. And don’t forget the blueberries soaked in Everclear. Amounts? I haven’t a clue.
Yep, sounds like a habanero.
I don’t think it was, because I know the ones I had were larger and elongaged with a very rounded tip, habaneros are kind of squat and rounder...
It was an experience, though. Once, when I went to the rehearsal dinner for my sister’s wedding at a chinese restaurant, she ordered some dish that had those little red peppers in it. Now, I love those and eat em like mad, but my sister had no idea.
She wasn’t paying attention, popped one in her mouth, and while I watched from across the table, her face turned beet red, beginning at her neck and rising up her face like a thermometer, just like what you see in the cartoons!
She jumped up from the table and ran in the bathroom and threw up, and the rest of the night she could barely speak. It was pretty amazing to watch...
Holy Jesus.
That reminds me of drink I had in a little bar just east of New Yorks Chinatown. It was a shot of Jamesons with a pickle juice chaser. They called it a Pickleback...not bad.
Woah.
I’m partial to the Zombie:
1oz light rum
1oz dark rum
.5oz Grenadine
.5oz Triple Sec
1oz Apricot Brandy
2oz OJ
2oz sour mix
.5oz lime juice
.5oz 151 rum
Put everything except the 151 rum into a shaker filled with ice, and shake.
Strain into glass filled with ice, and top off with the 151 rum
Garnish as desired.
GREAT stuff!
It is hard to top the flavors in good rum, and there is some amazing dark rum out there if you’re lucky enough to live in a State that allows artisan liquors like this area does. We have a couple of people experimenting with artisan rum here and I’m confident they are making progress....
Kippis!
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