Given that I always use Worcestershire sauce on my burgers, that’s not much of a threat. 
Let’s say flavored alcoholic beverages are permitted, but the flavors have to be spinach, broccoli, etc. Worst-case scenario, at least the kids develop a taste for vegetables! 
:rolleyes: Oh, do drop that, please.
Clearly you haven’t had the right cocktails and mixed drinks; few of the good (i.e. old-school) ones are actually all that bright colored or “emetic flavored”.
Crap like Bourbon St. “daiquiris” and hurricanes are, but nobody over the age of 24 actually drinks that junk.
Hmm.
No.
Hey. While I wouldn’t normally drink a hurricane, I’d feel odd not ordering one or two (never a third) sitting at the bar in Pat O’Brien’s.
Of course, this isn’t true at all. I liked beer from when I remember having my first sip of it, at around four years old. Dad couldn’t open his Old Style without me saddling up to his side for a sip. Sharing this story with my friends, I found it’s not unusual. Now cigarettes, I’m not sure I’ve ever met someone who really enjoyed that first one, but I could be wrong. The idea that the taste for beer has to be acquired because it’s so revolting is patently absurd. Some people just don’t have a sweet tooth and like those kinds of flavors.
Same here. My parents weren’t big drinkers so when I was like 5 I’d get excited when we were having company because it meant Pop would be having a beer or 2 and would let me have a slug. In the 60’s they drank this open vat brewed beer called “Weber”. It was made in Waukesha (later in Dubuque) and came in 16 ounce bottles. God, it was so good and bitter. I loved it!
I didn’t mean Hurricanes in the specific sense of the Pat O’Brien’s drink or a reasonable facsimile produced by a competent bartender, but rather the horrible frozen slush version served at joints on Bourbon St. and other adolescent drinking holes.
Kind of like the difference between a margarita consisting of a good silver tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and sugar vs. one made from a bottle of “mix” and Cuervo Gold.
I dunno: I’ll agree with you on the daiquri thing, but there are times when a frozen margarita (thinking of the ones at Chuy’s) goes as well or better than the “real thing.” The frozen screwdrivers at Under the Volcano (bar in Houston) are great too. Maybe it’s the miserable climate? Anyway, I also love ones like the ones you’re talking about, and am even more delighted that you specified silver tequilla.
I’m one of those that hated, absolutely hated, beer at first. Thank God for Midori to get me acquainted with the joys of alcohol.
Oh no… I didn’t mean that frozen drinks are inherently a problem. I meant that too many bad mixed drinks are made with some kind of manufactured mix that doesn’t even have lime juice or sugar.
A good real frozen margarita is great, as are other real frozen mixed drinks
Here’s a good recipe (from “Craft of the Cocktail” by Dale De Groff)
Frozen Margarita
2 oz tequila
1 oz triple sec
1 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz simple syrup
3/4 cup cracked ice.
Combine all the ingredients in a blender. Blend and pour into a large goblet rimmed with coarse salt.
Everyone knows that sweet-flavored high-alcohol drinks aren’t marketed to underaged drinkers. If they were, then the underaged drinkers they are marketed to wouldn’t drink them…
I was working for a Beer company, with an associated distribution company, when a competitor introduced party drinks in little cardboard boxes. The container was generically called a “tetra-pak” from the brand name of the company that made the packaging.
This provoked wide spread comment, suggesting that they were aiming at children, since existing tetra-pak’d products were mostly sweet drinks for children.
The result? The local market for wine-coolers collapsed, and stayed down for the best part of 10 years. The problem wasn’t the condemnation of the packaging: the problem was that the biggest market for wine-coolers was teenagers and young adults, and they absolutely stopped drinking wine-coolers when the product was associated with “marketing to children”.
They weren’t children! They were sophisticated consumers! Of sophisticated alchoholic pre-mixed drinks! They did not drink anything aimed at children!
(Caffinated alchoholic drinks should be banned. Other alchoholic drinks should be taxed.)
Why? And if so, only pre-packaged caffeinated alcohol, or are we going to also ticket bartenders that make ‘Red Bull and Vodkas’? Or Irish Coffees, now that I think about it.
Thanks for the drink recipe, bump. I usually don’t make mine with simple syrup, and I’m looking forward to trying this one to see how it compares.
- Because mixing addictive drugs makes them as addictive as the most addictive component of the mixture.
2)I’m not much of a believer in absolute bans or consistant behavior. I’m happy to have all kinds of exceptions, and only clean up the areas where there are problems. Pre-mixed drinks are a cheaper way of drinking, and I’m in favour of taxation as a method of measuring and influencing alcohol abuse. I think Red Bull is immoral, only partly because it is sold as a mixer for Vodka. But “Ecstacy” gave us a period of a few years in my city, where violence and injury and addiction was down, and that was not a ban on Red Bull or Vodka.