# Drink Recipe Help: Tequila & Grand Marnier **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742 "2003-10-21T17:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AutoXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@AutoXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AutoXer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/1 "2003-10-21T17:54:55Z")
Ok, I find myself with two nearly full bottles of good Tequila and two barely used bottles of Grand Marnier… its a long, not very exciting, story about how my cupboard ended up full of this stuff. Anyway, my housemate and I are sick of Margaritas. Any suggestions on good drink recipes to use this stuff in? I tend to like fruity drinks (not a real fan of straight Tequila). I’d prefer not to have to go out and buy any more bottles of alcohol right now… so no recipes that require anything additional that I can’t get at the grocery store. Recipes for food will work too! Thanks for any help! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/2 "2003-10-21T20:56:39Z")
Dude, that’s what you get when you put Tequila and Grand Marnier together (with a little limejuice): a Margarita. What else can you possibly do? I’ve cooked prawns in Tequila, which was way good, and I’ve sipped Grand Marnier after dinner, but they’re not the two most versatile liquids on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![scotcho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@scotcho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotcho)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/3 "2003-10-21T21:46:54Z")
Aside from sending them to me, i don’t know of that many things you could do. I just went [Here](http://www.barnonedrinks.com/search/index.html) and searched for Tequila and Grand Marnier. I got some 20 results. Scotcho ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/4 "2003-10-21T21:54:44Z")
Well, [Webtender.com](http://Webtender.com) beats that with 104 hits on a search: [Clicky Linky Thingy](http://www.webtender.com/cgi-bin/search?name=&ingr=tequila%2C+grand+marnier&what=drink&adv=y&alc2=y&alc0=y&alc1=y&dc=1&dc=4&dc=6&dc=3&dc=0&dc=2&dc=9&dc=5&dc=7&dc=8&icount=0&show=50&verbose=on) If you go to the home page, and create a “bar” with just those two ingredients, it will suggest up to 189 drinks using those and up to two other ingredients… some with names like _Choad_, _Sweaty Mexican Lumberjack_, and _Warp Core Breach._ Me, I’ll stick to Tequila Sunrise (OJ, Tequila, and a splash of Grand Marnier). ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/5 "2003-10-22T02:38:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AutoXer \* > **Anyway, my housemate and I are sick of Margaritas.** I suggest therapy. Being “sick of Margaritas” is clearly a bad sign. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drink-recipe-help-tequila-grand-marnier/208742/6 "2003-10-22T10:55:05Z")
Wait a minute…you don’t want to have to buy any more alcohol but you want a variety of palatable fruity drinks that don’t resemble a margarita? _blink blink_ While I like **Bughunter’s** suggestion, that is not, technically, a Tequila Sunrise…which is tequila, OJ, and a float of grenadine which sinks to the bottom and creates the “sunrise” effect. So buy some OJ and grenadine, and spike it with the Grand Marnier for fun. That’s pretty much all you can do, my friend; tequila is not a friendly mixer like vodka or rum, and Grand Marnier is hardly what I’d call a versatile mixer either. I mean, you could try all kinds of things, but they probably won’t taste very good. I know a few people who drink tequila with Sprite, but frankly that sounds like hell in a glass to me. Without the purchase and addition of other liquors, you’re screwed, my friend. And if you’re sick of margaritas, you’re probably just not making 'em right. 😃 Buy some Minute Maid Limeade, spike it with tequila, and THROW A PARTY! Call it “Knoxville Party Punch” and pretend you’re cool. And if your friends don’t want the Grand Marnier, send it my way. _sluuuuuuurp_