My cousin used to mix Red Bull and Johnny Walker Red Label. It was about as foul as it sounds. One I did like was scotch with ice cubes made from Coconut Water.
The most recent drink I improvised was vodka and apple soda, at a con I attended a few weeks ago. Not bad. I wasn’t desperate enough to add vodka to Kool-aid, however.
Vodka and diet creme soda. He was a good friend and it was his booze, so I held my tongue.
At my girlfriend’s 21 year old birthday party thrown at an American Legion Hall. Ran out of everything but gin and red Hawaiian Punch. It was nasty but we drank it any way. Cuz booze!
Well, in my case, it was new student week at college, so I hand’t fully developed my alcoholic taste buds quite yet. So that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it. 
I’m not quite of the extreme of “straight or nothing,” though. A well-crafted gin and tonic, or an old fashioned, manhattan, sidecar, sazerac, etc., are all wonderful drinks in their own right and do not hide the alcohol.
I’ve mentioned this before, but Jose Cuervo and Diet Dr. Pepper. Jose Cuervo is not a good tequila to drink straight, it was the only alcohol in the house, my parents were out of margarita mix, and the only possible mixer in the house was the Dr. Pepper. In my defense, I really needed a drink as I had come home from college for spring break to my childhood cat that would have to be put down in a few days.
And a vodka and a cream soda could be good. There’s a lot of flavored vodkas out there and the vanilla ones aren’t too bad.
Yeah, vodka and cream soda doesn’t sound so bad. But, really, vodka plus anything shouldn’t be bad, just an alcoholized version of the mixer.
bacardi and black currant cordial. I threw up black. And for quite some time.
I can’t lie. I’ve had this. I like diet cream soda once in a while. I like vodka. It was what I had. It was okay.
Once I mixed rye (whiskey) with chocolate milk. Twasn’t bad! I’ve had it again since.
Tomato juice and rum do not a Bloody Mary make. But you might think they will if you’re drunk (or desperate) enough.
I hope to never be either again.
How is vanilla vodka not like drinking vanilla extract? I’m gagging slightly just imagining the stuff.
Gin and Dr Pepper. Absolutely nasty.
When I tended bar, I used to have a customer whose drink of choice was Chivas and diet Coke. I almost had to hold my nose when mixing it.
Apparently, this is a drink called a “bloody pirate” (usually with dark rum, if the internet is to be believed). Would never occur to me to even try this. That said, put in tequila for the vodka, and you’ve got a decent bloody mary variation. (And the other bloody mary ingredient for both, of course.)
I had some Baileys and I had some Chambord and I thought I’d mix them together and make raspberry-flavored irish cream.
I discovered that the acidity in Chambord causes the dairy in Baileys to coagulate. And a drink filled with lumps looks as bad as it sounds and tastes as bad as it looks.
Believe it or not, this concept (curdling the dairy in Baileys or similar cream liqueurs) is a thing. You’ve basically created a variation of a “bloody brain” or “cement mixer” cocktail. But, yeah, they’re kind of disgusting.
Yes, I looked it up when it happened and learned this. That’s why I was willing to at least give it a chance and try a sip.
Imitation maple syrup and seltzer. I almost threw up.
Hot pepper flavored vodka and Diet Coke did not work.
Not that I thought it would.
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Along those lines, I once mixed a chai tea latte with whiskey. Unlike you, I did not enjoy the experience.
Back in the USSR, you could get this from vending machines for two kopeks. You had to rinse out the communal glass and put it back when you were done.