Post #27018 by laney on Mon, Mar 17, 2003 4:33 PM

I'm going to chime in here as a cocktail waitress. Please, please no blended drinks, drinks with wierd ingredients, or too many ingredients. I hate it when people come into my work and ask for a "surfer's piehole" (make up any name) Many establishments come up with their own drinks and people go elsewhere to order and are stunned when you say, "I don't know what that is" to which they reply "well go ask the bartender HE'LL know" I say "I worked in bars 9 years and have never heard of it, tell me what's in it" Many times they say "I don't know" or if they are the bartender who made up the drink that everyone should know by NOW, they rattle off a list of 5 liquers (always some peach schnaps, midori, or apple pucker) with just as many "fresh" juices.
If we are going to make up a drink that we'll drink in public, please make it simple.My work is guilty of this to as we have a shot called "wet pussy" and I tell people not to order it anywhere else or you'll get slapped!

An easy way to do this is replace one part of an existing drink. For example, I love Cadillac Margaritas with Amaretto insted of Gran Marnier. Also if you are a regular at a bar and your special drink requires a special ingredient, take them a bottle to keep behind the bar for you. I'm sure they'd do this for us at Sam's.

I'll be working late trying to come up with a new drink for us. I tried to make a "flaming bitch shot" named after hulalula, one night- Mango liquer with a float of 151-light and yum! But I got a bloody nose on my way home from work, my 2nd in my life. Is it related? I don't know and won't try it again to find out.

Let's keep it open to other types of alcohol-not just rum. I know this sounds gross but I'm not a fru-fru drinker, (a Manhattan with bitters is a fru as I get) but try Remy Martin with pineapple juice. It is yummy and tastes like a tropical drink.

This sounds like a fun hangover!

[ Edited by: laney on 2003-03-17 16:34 ]

[ Edited by: laney on 2003-03-17 20:01 ]