Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipes wanted

[Tio_Gringo]

So today is my birthday and I will be going out with friends this evening to celebrate another year clicking over on the grand odometer of life. Anyway, I thought it might be novel to have a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster tonight.

For those not familiar with, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, here is the scoop:

@The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy

…the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. The Guide also tells you on which planets the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are mixed, how much you can expect to pay for one and what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterwards. The Guide even tells you how you can mix one yourself.

And the recipe in the book is as follows:

1. Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol’ Janx Spirit.
2. Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V.
3. Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
4. Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it.
5. Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qalactin Hypermint extract.
6. Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger.
7. Sprinkle Zamphuor.
8. Add an olive.
9. Drink . . . but . . . very carefully . . .

Seeing as I am stuck here on Earth (although, with my towel and peril-sensitive sunglasses), and my local liquor store doesn’t even stock Ol’ Janx Spirit, I am resigned to not having an authentic PGGB this year.

However, I am hopeful that my fellow Dopers (resourceful as they are) will be able to come-up with a terrestrial version that will have the desired effects.

I will try every submitted recipe tonight and report back with the results tomorrow.

Wish me luck, you hoopy froods.

[jjimm]

Why not stick your fingers down your throat, then whack yourself into unconsciousness to save time…?

[Baron_Greenback]

@jjimm

Why not stick your fingers down your throat, then whack yourself into unconsciousness to save time…?

Doesn’t whack mean something entirely different over there?

[Tio_Gringo]

@jjimm

Why not stick your fingers down your throat, then whack yourself into unconsciousness to save time…?

Not to mention money…but I don’t believe to doing things half-assed.

If you’re gonna do it, do it right!

[Nanoda]

Just look it up in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to… okay, Wikipedia.

There are five recipies there, but I’m not entirely sure you’ll be able to get through them all. If you do, I’m fairly certain you will in short order have replicated the feeling of having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick… :smack:

[neofishboy]

“Go to it, and good luck.”

[Cisco]

@EvilAsh

For those not familiar with, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy

Do you have any idea where you’re at?

[Tio_Gringo]

@Cisco

Do you have any idea where you’re at?

Of course. I realized that 90% of the good folks here are intimately familier with Hitchhikers’, but there are always newcomers to the flock.

Ask me that question again in about 12 hours.

[TPWombat]

From memory, the PGGBs served at the HHGTTG stage show in London around 1980 (The Mermaid, I think, could be wrong) were :

70cc champagne
20cc vodka
10cc blue curacao
1 silverskin onion

served in a 100cc test tube.

[Ender_Will]

I found a recipe online (looking for it again) which a friend and I followed for the film’s release. If memory serves, it was 4 parts Bacardi 151, 1 part vodka, 1 part gin, 1 part peppermint Schnapps, Sprite and some blue food coloring. We made enough that, with ice, they nicely filled a 16oz cup. We drank…cautiously. The effect was much the same as having our skulls bashed in by a wedge of lemon wrapped around a gold brick.

Couldn’t find the recipe we used, but BarMeister has a semi-similar one.

[Athena]

@Cisco

Do you have any idea where you’re at?

There goes another keyboard. Good one, Cisco!