So I was out on the town last evening when some fellow ordered a lowball of half Jägermeister and half Scotch whisky (Dewars)! 
I wonder where on Earth he got that idea…yeccchh.
The whole episode made me wonder if punishment could be meted out for that sort of thing. Now that’s alcohol abuse.
Like the bartender said to me about it: “That’s just wrong.”
Similar horror stories, anyone?
On a trip to the beach, I once saw teenagers making screwdrivers with Scope mouthwash and orange juice.
John
A fairly infamous alcoholic beverage in these parts is known as ‘Snakebite’ and consists of equal measures of lager and Cider (sweet or dry,depending upon preference).
Some Pubs refuse to sell ‘Snakebite’ as such,so you have to buy the components and mix it yourself. Other pubs refuse to sell you more than two pints of it!
Quite popular with teenagers and aging Punkrockers,in my experience.
Yesterday my 10-year-old son surprised me while I was working at my desk. He brought me a ‘club’ sandwich he had just made, on white bread:
Layer 1: margarine, cheddar cheese, and crushed potato chips
Layer 2: peanut butter, cool whip, and grated parmesan cheese
“Cooking sure is fun!” he said, beaming. “I think you’ll really like it!”
Carol
He forgot the coconut.
My favorite drink is a rusty nail–going in the
opposite direction to good stuff.
That’s scotch with drambuie, Yum.
i use to perform guitar in a french restaurant and the owner and his french friends always drank dewars(or better) and coke
When I was in (Catholic) junior college early in the last century, we used to bring inlemon extract with which to fortify our Seven-Up
On this side of the pond (at least in New England) a snakebite is Yukon Jack (a liqueur based on Canadian whiskey) and Rose’s (sweetened) lime juice.
The most egregious drink mixing I ever saw was in Cincinnati, a place where it was near impossible to get a decent beer. We went to a place advertising a black and tan. They had Guinness on tap, but no Harp or Bass, so we speculated whether they’d mix it with Bud, Bud Lite or with a bottle of real beer. I lost – they actually mixed Guinness with Bud Lite.
I thought a snakebite was stout and cider, e.g. Guinness and Strongbow.
A few months ago I was at the bar with two other fellows of the same name, and we decided to celebrate this coincidence by concocting a drink called a “triple Scott.” Each of us would choose one ingredient, which in some way reflected our tastes and personalities. The final concoction was Southern Comfort, spiced rum, and Zima.
But this doesn’t beat my older brother, who has a drink named after us back in Illinois, consisting of Kahlua and Miller Lite. How’s that for a scandal on the family name?
Caj
Ugh! I’d say you lost in more ways than one.
The most horrid shot I was ever given was called a cement mixer. It’s served in two parts. First you’re given a shot of Bailley’s Irish cream. You hold it in your mouth and then add a shot of Rose’s lime. Absolutely horrid.
It’s a great prank to play on a friend. Well that’s what my friends thought. The concoction currdles in your mouth and sets up like cement.
accck.
Aka “mazout” (tr.: diesel fuel). Youngsters do indulge in this around here.
See also:
Cuba libre: rum + coke
Zazou: Pastis + coke. Great for hangovers. Tastes like medicine, too.
Vol de nuit (tribute to Antoine de St-Exupéry, the alledged inventor of this killer): Pernod, forget the water, use Suze instead…
Snakebite is ok. The ultimate bad taste is “Black Velvet”. Bad taste and nouveau riche, too. Just imagine mixing Guinness and Champagne…
Stout and cider is ‘Poor Man’s Black Velvet’. The rich man’s version is Guinness and Champagne.
We also used to have snakebite with a dash of blackcurrant and called that ‘Diesel’.
Having never developed a taste for alcoholic drink, I can’t offer anything along the lines above …
However, I’m quite fond of about 3/4 Pepsi plus 1/4 milk over ice on a hot day. A variation is the same made with ginger ale.
I was in Alberta back in the sixties when I still drank. After dinner people drank something they called a Shandee which was made with half Lethbridge beer and half ginger ale. I felt that after dinner Drambuie was a better choice.
Ron
I went to the University of Wisconsin for a year. While I was there a local brewery decided to try making a beer without hops. I can’t imagine why they thought that would work. They were selling it one day but in a few days it was gone. I tried it-well, I bought one but chouldn’t choke down more than a sip.
Steve
Those kids making the mouthwash screwdriver are lucky they aren’t dead, or at least blind.
Isopropyl (“rubbing”) alcohol cannot be metabolized by the human body. It will kill you or at least cause permanent blindness, anybody who tries to use it as a subsititute for ethyl alcohol (the kind of alcohol found in beer, etc) is a complete utter MORON.
On another note, when I was a kid, theneighbors’ kids and I got the bright idea to mix orange juice and milk together. You’d think as good as orange dreamcicles are, it would taste good. Nope, it was nasty. Guess we shouldn’t have used skim milk. blech
Isopropyl alcohol ingestion can be fatal, but it does not cause blindness. It’s methanol that does that (e.g. antifreeze). Isopropyl alcohol is not one of the ingredients in mouthwash. Mouthwash contains ethanol, the good old drinking kind - that’s why the kids were making Scope cocktails. The unhealthful ingredients are sodium benzoate, cetylpyridinium chloride, domiphen bromide, benzoic acid.
Putting the toxicology aside for a moment, a mouthwash screwdriver couldn’t taste any worse than a whisky and Jaeger mix.
