Comments on: Friday Fluff: Drinking around the world

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:13:37 +0000

Ah, Pimm’s and lemonade! If only I were looking out at our glorious summer day (this year expected to be on 21 June), rather than a rainy London street in January, I could almost quite fancy one now. Snakebite; in all honesty?

Also recommended are ginger martinis (vodka, ginger syrup and lime), and a nice hot toddy (whisky, lemon, honey, hot water, cinnamon and cloves). The latter is commended to any Shapelings with colds.

By: Lu

Lu — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:18:35 +0000

French 75 (or 76)! Gin, lemon juice, Cointreau, and champagne. It’s delicious, and powerful. The French 76 has vodka instead of gin. I don’t know which it was I was drinking because my friend ordered. Probably the latter.

By: ChloeMireille

ChloeMireille — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:05:14 +0000

There is this drink that comes from the local GLBTQ bar back home called a Blue-Tailed Fly. I have no idea what the hell is in it besides Blue Curacao because it’s premixed in giant jugs under the counter.

I could drink those all night and still want another one.

By: slythwolf

slythwolf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:23:52 +0000

I don’t know if this is unusual or not; I think my friends and I may have made it up, but that doesn’t mean someone else didn’t also make it up, probably much earlier. We call it a Pucker Up, for reasons that will become obvious.

Take 1 shot of Pucker, whatever flavor you are feeling at the moment. Place in glass of some type (not a shot glass). Pour desired amount of 7-Up into glass. Add ice, or don’t, whatever. Consume.

My husband laughs at me for this, because he thinks I am such a lightweight that I have to water down Pucker. That is not the case. I water down Pucker because of the sourness.

My friends and I also have something known as a Captain Jack, which is a shot of half Jack Daniels and half Captain Morgan, for purposes of PotC viewing. We are enormous dorks.

By: littlem

littlem — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:32:55 +0000

Plum wine, for anyone who hasn’t had it, is the shiznit.

Just proceed with caution on your first go-round.

By: dolia

dolia — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:15:42 +0000

My current favourite: the Saigon Cooler, from the bar on the park @ Greenwich.

Step 1:
Gin
Chambord or Framboise
Cranberry Juice
Rasberries or crushed rasberries or rasberry puree – we play it fast & loose @ chez dolia
squeeze of lime!

Step 2:
Drink like it’s a yummy fruity soft drink!

By: Christina

Christina — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:13:11 +0000

Pimm’s with 7up! Alllll the way. Or sangria.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:23:31 +0000

Well, now I want a really dirty martini while I watch HGTTG on youtube.

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:23:39 +0000

Don’t forget, the PGGB is “like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.”

I’ll shut up now.

By: Liza

Liza — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:22:17 +0000

I want to make a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster now. Because any cocktail that references Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy can’t be bad. Ever.

I also really want to try Mansinthe. Yes, that’s Marilyn Manson’s own brand of absinthe. I found a store in Brooklyn that sells it, but it’s like $70 a bottle and I’m poor.