What weird drinks have you had?

I'll never forget the day I was forced to drink a cement mixer. If anyone ever offers you this drink, kindly decline and then smack them in the head for trying to make you vomit on purpose.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Answers

Hey, welcome back, Pamie...

Most ridiculous shot: The Blow Job. Some kind of alcohol (sorry, details a bit fuzzy due to lack of sobriety) topped with whipped cream.

The catch: To do it properly, you had to **pick it up and drink it using only your mouth.** No hands allowed.

The experience: "OK, I have to *what?!* No hands? OK, fine, no hands, but if it goes everywhere it's not my fault..." Thoughts in my head: "**snorf**..oh, shit, this is really difficult...ok, let me grip the glass with my lips and...**snorf**...oh, gawd, this shot glass is probably cracking all my teeth...**snorf**...I can't swallow....**snorf**"

"Pathetic" doesn't even come close. :P

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

someone bought my future roommate something called a stoplight for her 21st birthday last weekend. i don't quite understand it, so if someone wants to explain it to me, i'd be much obliged.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

In Baltimore, the drink you had is formally called an "Irish car bomb", and you light the shot on fire before dropping it in the Guinness. We're all about mixing alcohol and fire here in Maryland!

Also, some friends of mine lived in Laurel, Md. for a couple of years after graduation and would make "Laurel car bombs", which substituted Milwaukee's Best and vodka for the more high-class ingredients.

Either way, having more than one of the above pretty much takes care of your evening.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Not exactly a weird mix, but a very bad drink: Chamomile Grappa...sickeningly sweet, I thought I was going to throw it all right back up.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Thanks for the cement mixer warning - TOO LATE! I had one once, and never again. I've also tried a stoplight, but the bartender at TGIFridays was a moron and didn't do it right.

My favorite wierdo drink so far was a "surfer on acid". It's a mixture of Malibu Rum, Yeagermeister, and I'm not sure what else. It was either really terriffic, or I'd had waaaaay too much else to be any kind of judge of taste. Probably the latter.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Upsidedown margaritas. There was this bar in Chicago where they'd put you in this old dentist's chair thingy, recline it so your head was below your feet, pour the tequila and margarita mix into your mouth and then fling you upright.

Ahh.....the eighties.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

All I can say is: can't wait til I'm 21! (yes, I've never gotten drunk before...I have the worst guilty conscience.)

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

I guess this counts. I don't have the guts to do it, but some friends swish Sambucha around in their mouths and then light their mouths on fire. It's a neat effect, but I believe that fire in any bodily orifice is a bad thing.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Well, in this part of the world (=Slovenia), we have a thing just like that. you drop a shot of brandy into a pint of beer, but you don't have to gulp it. It's called a U-boat. If you just mix beer and brandy in an ordinary kind of way, it's called Concrete. There's a reason, believe me.

-- Anonymous, November 30, 1999

Yeah, cement mixers are bad news. I used to bartend, and before that I was just a lush, so I've had a little experience here. One that will put a serious hurt on you is an oatmeal cookie- jagermeister and rumplemintz. There was also a favorite of mine called a backdraft. All I can remember was that it had Grand Marnier and something else served in a small brandy snifter. You light it and then cover it with your hand. When the flame goes out, it creates a vacuum and the snifter is stuck to your palm. After detaching it and drinking it down, you're supposed to sniff the flames for a little more killing of brain cells.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

in minnesota, they call jaegermeister and rumplemintz a "dead nazi". i have an acquaintance who adored ordered those for unsuspecting freshly turned 21 year olds.

i'm from baltimore, though, and i've never heard of anything lighting anything on fire and drinking it! but then, of course, i'm not 21 yet. so.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

There was a party where people were drinking Purple Hooters, ETs, and Cerebral Hemorrhages. Somebody gave me a combo, ET's Cerebral Hemorrhage. Somebody else had ET's Purple Hooters. Nobody could figure out how to make ET's Purple Hemorrhage, because the chambord was too dark to see the bailey's cream tendrils.

Not necessarily a weird drink, but an unfortunately drunken one: I made some cyser which turned out to be about 13% alcohol and went down like apple juice. I had three of them in about an hour and half, and then did the math: Gee, that's like, nine beers! In an hour and a half!

I was not happy.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

I went out with some friends for my 21st and the bartender bought me a "Mind Eraser". According to webtender.com it's Vodka, Kahlua, and Tonic water. "In a small glass pour vodka then the kahlua then the tonic water (vary amount of alchol to size of glass). Do not shake. Place glass on table then drink from straw till finished." And that's what I did. It was pretty good, too. I guess it's not really a "weird" drink, but it did knock me on my ass.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

Oh, yeah, done 'em all. Kamikazes, mind erasers, just plain ol' shots of Jaegermeister, stuff I can't remember the names of, much less the ingredients to. Those shot drinks get a lot more boring -- and frightening -- the older you get! They're basically just to get drunk on. I guess y'all done figgered that out already, though, huh? Nowadays I'm more a beer girl. Let's keep it that way, shall we, and keep me off the cold hard bathroom floor!

However, I am very interested to know what the heck is actually IN a cement mixer. Plus that stoplight thing a couple of people have mentioned. I might not want to actually drink them myself, but it's always good to be up on things! Come on, all you bartenders and former bartenders out there! (I don't count cuz all I did was pull frozen margaritas out of a machine.) Do tell!

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

Dang, could I USE more exclamation points?!!!!!!!!!!!! How old AM I, exactly?

-- Anonymous, December 01, 1999

A cement mixer, from what I've seen (I've never done one), is irish cream and lime juice mixed in your mouth. The lime juice starts to curdle the irish cream, giving it the consistency of cement. Yummy!

A shot that we have been drinking around Pittsburgh is the electric jolly rancher: about 3/4 of a shot glass of your favorite flavor of Pucker (watermelon and apple are good)with Absolut topping it off.

Of course, B-52's and Alabama Slammers are always good too.

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

Weird shots...hmm...except for that time in college when none of us didn't have money so we drank Listerine, I can't think of any. I've never had the nerve to ask a bartender for a blow job or a screaming orgasm.

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

some of my friends shoot pucker. sometimes they drink it straight out of the bottle. but one of the worst ideas i've ever seen in my life was when a friend did a double shot of absolut and chased it with pucker. i don't think i've ever seen anyone book it to the bathroom so quickly.

electric jolly ranchers sound good, though.

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

An old roommate of mine used to like mixing orange juice and Goldschlager ... we called it a Golden Sunrise. After the 'yecch' factor, it was actually pretty tasty.

And my neighbor that year just adored cement mixers, but he used OJ instead of lime.

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

There's a local bar here that serves a homegrown drink called a Futher Mucker. I don't have a clue what's in it, but it's sweet and frooty and goes down really smooth so you decide to get another... and by the time you're on your fourth you're screwing up the name of the drink and insulting the bartender...

...Which is the point, I think.

A deceased bar farther down Bar Crawl lane served a drink... Geez, it's been so long I don't even remember what it was called. But it came in these really spiffy vases *cough* I mean glasses, and if you finished the drink you kept the glass.

I've got three of those glasses collecting dust under my sink. *grin*

she's actual size

-- Anonymous, December 02, 1999

I had an experience rather similar to the one Pamie had with the car bomb, only it was with a drink called a "flaming Dr. Pepper". Some admixture of liquors and liqueurs (amaretto and whiskey? I don't remember, as like everyone else posting here, I was rather buzzed at the time) was placed in a shotglass and set alight. I was then provided with a half-glass of beer and told to drop the shotglass into the beer to extinguish it, then chug the whole thing. Well, the shotglass arrived at the air-beer interface with a wee bit too much momentum and the resulting column of beer must've been two feet high. I drank it anyway (and wiped up the table afterward), and as billed, it tasted almost exactly like Dr. Pepper. Drinks like that make me wonder just who has enough spare time (and enough spare brain cells) to mix dribbles of random bottles from the liquor cabinent until the result tastes just like something else.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 1999

I've experienced a Dr. Pepper and one of them there Jolly rancher drinkies...in Pittsburgh. My roomate, who was from P-burgh area wanted me to experience both my first IC AND a replica of my fave soda So, my Dr. Pepper was a shot of amaretto in Iron City (blech!). That's the kind of mess a freshman from the other side of PA can get into at good ole Pitt. The Jolly rancher was good. also on my brother's 21st, I experienced a gingerbread man: baileys & goldschlagger (sp) and a prarie fire: I think it's tequila and tabasco sauce..yeah that was pleasant.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 1999

Someone mentioned upside down marguaritas.. those are VERY good. They also hit really quick, you can tell when it's in your stomache because suddenly that nice buzz you had going is bordering on drunk.

Friend of mine made up a drink called a Fuzzy Screw. Basically it's a screwdriver w/ peach schnapps added. I can't remember if he added the peach to a screwdriver, or the vodka to a fuzzy navel to come up with it, but it's really good. You can put a whole bunch of vodka in it, and just a teensy amount of the peach stuff and I swear you can't taste the alcohol. The peach covers it up. one word of caution: too much peach and it's throw-up sweet.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 1999

A Brain Hemorrhage was the most interesting shot I have ever done. Not because it tasted particularly nasty, but because it really looked like a little brain floating in clear liquid. Why I drank it I have no idea.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 1999

OK - I feel pretty dumb for misspelling jagermeister. But thanks, Murphy, for the mention of webtender.com! I didn't know it existed. I'm in trouble now, though.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 1999

one of my friends (sounds like i never drink, all these friends - the truth is i once had a bad experience with vodka shots without chaser and try not to shoot anything anymore ever) had an affection for prairie fires, which ARE tequila and tabasco sauce. burn like hell going down, but damn do they give you a good buzz.

and people think you're tough if you order them, too.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 1999

I've done the majority of the shots listed in this forum, believe it or not. I tend to like living on the edge of my pants, heh heh.

The weirdest shot I've ever done was either the Gorilla Fart or Pitbull on Crack. Forget the Mind Eraser. These two are where it's at.

As for weirdest drink, I tried the Alabama Riot (it's one extra hard liquor above the Slammer) that someone had suggested before, but I didn't care for the bitter taste.

-- Anonymous, December 06, 1999

As for the laurel car bomb...Beast and vodka? EW ew ew ew ew.... Just the beast alone is enough to make me ill. Add straight vodka in there and i'd say you're in for an all night party with the barf bucket. Although I will admit the concept of setting with alcohol in it on fire DOES intrigue me...

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2000

I was in Maryland with friends once and one of them insisted I have an oyster shot. One of the ugliest (probably #4 or so) photos of me ever taken was right after this shot. It's an oyster, and tabasco and some bloody mary mix and some kind of alcohol. Beer and/or tequila or something else. It was just awful and horrible and I never ever want to do it again.

-- Anonymous, March 21, 2000