- Ordering these drinks will make you think twice
- Some drink names were too offensive to share
It's just a drink, right? Half the fun of ordering a tall glass of questionable judgment is saying the name out loud. Order Sex on the Pool Table and you'll get a few giggles. But some names, while common in the bar scene, have histories that link them to cultural events that can make them politically incorrect.
On the heels of yesterday's Irish Car Bomb misunderstanding, here are a few drinks that we can share- and there were a lot more that were too offensive to share. Would you order these? Would you be offended? Or is this just a drink? And what are the worst drink names you have heard, or that have made you blush?
1) JESUS JUICE
Ingredients: Wine, co*ke
Story: In a 2003 deposition to detectives in Santa Barbara, two children recounted that Jackson would often serve alcohol to minors, encouraging them to drink wine straight from the bottle, calling it "Jesus Juice." Mixing it with co*ke seems to be a later addition.
Most Likely to Offend: Christians, fans of the late Jackson
2) FIERY GERMAN
Ingredients: equal parts Jägermeister and cinnamon schnapps
Most Likely to Offend: Germans, hardcore Jägermeister fans
3) SCREAMING org*sm
Ingredients: vodka, Irish cream, Kahlua
Most Likely to Offend: whomever you are with, especially if you order this in front of family
4) ALIEN NIPPLE
Ingredients: butterscotch schnapps, Irish liqueur, melon liqueur
Most Likely to Offend: Aliens, and those that believe in them and will willingly argue over whether or not aliens have nipples
5) HILLBILLY KOOL AID
Ingredients: grain alcohol, lemon-lime soda, fruit punch
Story: Grain alcohol is pretty harsh; mixing it with fruit punch and lemon-lime soda would lessen the blow.
Most likely to offend: people of Appalachian descent, fans of Kool Aid
6) CHINESE TORTURE
Ingredients: vodka, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, lemon-lime soda, and 1 super-hot chili
Story: Torture is never funny, and this drink seems to blend quite a few things that should not go together in an attempt to induce crying and vomiting, possibly at the same time.
Most likely to offend: Anyone who has been tortured, people of Chinese descent
7) SLAP YOUR MAMA
Ingredients: citrus soda, orange juice, spiced rum
Story: Apparently these ingredients are either so good you will want to hit your mother, or the caffeine kick is enough that you would do something silly like attempting violence. But considering it is just orange juice and soda with a little bit of rum, it should really be called "You are too young if you think this is a proper drink."
Most likely to offend: Your mother and all moms
8) THE CHARLIE MANSON
Ingredients: Ginger ale, spiced rum, rye whiskey
Story: supposedly this drink has a candy-like taste if enough spiced rum is used, and Manson seems anything but sweet.
Likely to offend: any of the victim's families
9) HEAVEN'S GATE
Ingredients: coconut rum, spiced rum, orange liqueur, raspberry liqueur, pineapple juice, lemon-lime soda
Story: named for Marshall Applewhite and his followers who draped themselves in purple cloth before committing mass suicide in 1997 in an attempt to reach a spaceship that they thought was traveling with the Hale-Bopp Comet. The raspberry liqueur would give this drink a purple color.
Likely to offend: those who still believe Do (Applewhite) is related to Jesus
10) BLOODY MARY
Ingredients: vodka, tomato juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce
Story: It's quite dramatic, with 3 different people laying claim to the origin of the recipe, and 4 different possible origins of the name. Some say it is named after Queen Mary I of England, who attempted to reinstate the Roman Catholic Church through burnings; another version is that it was named after a bartender named Mary who worked at a bar called the Bucket of Blood.
Most Likely to Offend: History nerds, people named Mary
