Everything is Association

I'm at the bar tonight. Not a closing shift, so I'm home by 10:00, but its still a night at the bar. The drink list reads something like this: haymaker (a long distance pass in football), Boner (I get it), Blowjob (we're getting deeper), Pink Pussy...please. As I'm making all of these drinks, I'm thinking about how they are all insights into the people that drink them. Haymaker folk are good beer lovers, football watchers, blue/white collar workers who slave away to cut out a space for their families. Boner drinkers tend toward the female. These are usually staples of girls-night-out attendees, mothers, wives, girlfriends, also busy people who rarely find the space in their day to relax and hang with their friends. Blowjob shots tend to fall into this same category of drinker. It's later in the night and there have been a couple of Boners and now their ready for something a little stronger, a little more playful, so...Blowjobs. The Pink Pussy shots, strangely enough, are also a staple of the female crowd. Whip cream covered shots of pink liquor that slide gently down the throat and don't have a ton of alchohol in them.

I don't know what this post is meaning to say, just a meditation on the drinks of the evening. Enjoy. Recipes to follow.

Haymaker - beer (not much explanation needed).

Boner - muddle lime in the bottom of a pint glass, pour one shot of cranberry vodka over the top, fill the cup with ice, fill glass with equal parts soda water and Seven-Up/Sprite/Sierra Mist. Finish the drink by garnishing with a lime slice on the edge of the glass.

Blowjob - Pour half a shot of Kahlua into a shot glass, carefully pour a half shot of Bailey's into the glass, using the side of the glass to prevent the Bailey's from piercing the plane of the Kahlua and therefore layering the shot, top with whipcream. ***It's fun to make people take this shot without using their hands so they have to wrap their mouth around the shot glass.

Pink Pussy - Half shot of Buttershots and half shot of Tequila Rose (this shot is not layered). Top with whip cream. ***This shot can also be taken without using one's hands.