A backwash cocktail

[Timbuk3]

In honor of Steven Colbert, I was thinking we could put our heads together and come up with a new drink called a "backwash".

My first thought was lemon Kool-Aid and cheap vodka, but...yech.

So, do any of you geniuses out there in DU land have any ideas for ingredients?

Bonus points if it's gross-looking, but tastes good going down. Sorta like what the GOP does to the fundies, if you catch my drift.

(Added on edit) If we can get bars across the country to serve "backwash cocktails", we'd be spreading the message in a way that the "libruhl media" couldn't affect.

[lonestarnot]

1. Margarita with black food coloring and a twist of corn syrup.

[Timbuk3]

2. Rename the cement mixer?

A friend (who doesn't have a DU account) suggested this:

Baily's and lemon juice. It's also called a cement mixer. You get some clown to swish it around in their mouth, and it congeals. Nasty as hell.

I was leaning more toward something people would order.

(Buddy's reply: "It's meant to be an insult, not something any sane person would want to drink." Sort of like voting for a Republicangelical.)

[lonestarnot]

4. I have to give this more thought, as I think it needs to be something

real tasty.

[Timbuk3]

6. The first one didn't sound bad

Margueritas and corn syrup. The black food coloring is a nice touch.

Do me a favor and kick this thread. Let's get some more heads involved.

[lonestarnot]

42. will do.

[badgerpup]

14. Wasn't there something on corn syrup affecting brain chemistry...

...the "stop eating, you're full" switch gets affected by high fructose corn syrup.
Saw that here last week...it was a subject of a couple of the law TV programs IIRC...

[valerief]

27. I saw that, too. Said it's the cause of American obesity. n/t

[valerief]

3. Chartreuse is pretty, potent, goes down sweet, and leaves a

stingingly bitter aftertaste. Oh, yeah, and at 110 proof, it'll knock you on your keister fast.

Put a cherry in it and call it the Chartreuse Ruse.

[Timbuk3]

5. I love chartreuse

Mix it 50:50 with pineapple juice. I call it a swampwater.

I just think it'd be fun to walk into the local nighclub and find people drinking "backwash". You'd know who wasn't too stupid to talk to that way. ;->

[valerief]

7. I love it, too, but I've watch strong men squirm while trying to down it.

I like the pineapple juice idea.

[TygrBright]

8. Chartreuse comes in green and in yellow...

I suggest a shot of green, a shot of ouzo, and fill with soda. The ouzo will go all cloudy from the soda water and look disgusting but the drink will taste like chartreuse-flavored licorice.

helpfully,
Bright the ex-bartender

[valerief]

9. Man, I wish it was Friday already! Sounds yummy. Will it make me

vote GOP, though? That's the real test.

[Atman]

10. Kool-Aid and Gasoline.

Then before they person is done drinking, raise the price on 'em.

[valerief]

11. I think you may have won. n/t

[Atman]

16. Actually, there was a real drink kind of like this...

We went to Sandals in St. Lucia some years back, and they had a drink they served all the noobs at the swim-up bar, kind of as an initiation. I wish I could remember what it was...something like a "depth charge" maybe? Anyway, it smelled good and tropically, it looked good, and when you shot it back it tasted good. For about three or four seconds. Then it suddenly got a wicked nasty aftertaste and burned quite literally like you had swallowed gasoline.

Sounds a lot like the Bush administration, especially the way it must be for the Bushies. Looked good, tasted good at first, but ultimately you got burned.

[valerief]

18. Sounds like Chartreuse. Sweet at first, then dirty gym socks.

I love a drink that bites back!

[Timbuk3]

23. Have you ever tried Benedictine?

It's just like Chartreuse, only nastier.

[Timbuk3]

24. Another suggestion from a friend.

Lone Star beer, nitro-glycerine tabs, and oxycontin. With a gasoline chaser.

[valerief]

29. That'll either kill you or cure you. n/t

[valerief]

28. I had B&B this weekend. Is that what you mean?

[Timbuk3]

31. B&B is Benedictine and Bourbon

Leave out the bourbon. Benedictine is a bit like Chartreuse in that it's made by monks, but it's "grainier", somehow. Nasty aftertaste. Just like voting for Bush must feel.

[valerief]

33. Oh, I MUST try some. Thanks for the tip! I don't believe I've ever had it.

[Atman]

32. Did you me BACTINE?

Might cure the Bush infection.

[valerief]

35. Bactine. It's an antiseptic and an essential amino acid.

I'll bet a freeper would believe that.

[MercutioATC]

41. Benedictine and brandy...

SIP it...

...otherwise, you're in for a pretty horrid experience.

[Timbuk3]

19. Thanks for posting that other thread

61 recommendations. Who could have seen that coming?

We drank something called a flaming purple jesus in college. Obviously, it was purple, and the waitress would light it on fire. It was three liquors floaed on each other. The only one I remember was the top: Bacardi 151.

I still like the candy cigarette butt, though.

[Atman]

21. Shh...don't let my fans know I have a ghost writer!

:rofl:

[SpecialK]

49. Awesome. N/T

[KyuzoGator]

12. Kool-Aid and Grain Alcohol

Come to think of it, that's not so different from the "Hunch Punch" we used to make in college.

[Timbuk3]

17. Make sure the glass is only 1/3 full...

...and add a candy cigarette butt.

[Horse with no Name]

13. Interesting

I would say:

Pineapple juice, vodka, Grenadine

The pineapple juice would give it a "backwash-type" consistency

[azurnoir]

15. 12oz. Any of the

"invisible" Kool-aid flavors 2oz everclear(where avail) or 2 oz Bacardi 151 and 2oz cherry flavor nyquil (just to make sure) pour over ice drink everything will seem OK

[Timbuk3]

22. Isn't that a Flaming Homer?

Love the "everything will seem OK" line.

[azurnoir]

40. doh'

sorry plagiarism unintended asked "co-habitant" he said they're yep that's it and kinda' good. So we'll change the Nyquil tooo Benydril, same effect but with floaties.

[Robbie Michaels]

20. I got one

grape Kool-Aid and Thunderbird....looks and tastes gross! :puke:

[niyad]

25. are we using backwash in the sense of the dictionary definition, or is

there another, more politically current definition?

sorry, I have been out of touch for a while, have only been able to skim DU briefly.

[Timbuk3]

37. The Colbert definition

As in, the slimy spit left supporting Bush.

[Atman]

26. The Red Plate Special - BackWash and a Shit Sandwich!

:)

[lonestarnot]

43. OMG gooooood! mmmmmmhmmmmm

[valerief]

30. Maybe the cocktail should reflect Colbert. Maybe the drink

should have some "cold beer" in it. Cold beer and Kool-Aid! Ding, ding, ding!

[Timbuk3]

34. Ding ding ding ding!

OK, you won.

Now you have the first one! ;->

[valerief]

36. I ain't drinking that crap! Thanks for the fun. I'll have to order one

soon just for the reaction.

[Timbuk3]

38. Try one of these

Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. * It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. * The Guide also tells you on which planets the best Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are mixed, how much you can expect to pay for one and what voluntary organizations exist to help you rehabilitate afterwards. The Guide even tells you how you can mix one yourself. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sells rather better than the Encyclopedia Galactica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster

Or, the Terran version:

Take the liquid contained in a 200 ml bottle of EverClear to remind you that your head will be clear forever if you drink too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, and that your brain will clear of anything soon after you start drinking some, if not before.

Into it, slowly pour a 750 ml bottle of Bombay Sapphire to remind you of the marvelous beauty of the old Santraginean seas, or an equal amount of Jeremiah Weed in acknowledgement of what has happened to the Santraginean Seas and their lifeforms.

Now add 750 ml of Cold Wild Turkey, letting it run into the mixture as we run through life to remind us of all the lifeforms we meet and experience while hitchhiking through the galaxy.

Speedily stirring, add 375 ml of Herradua Tequila, mixing it in to commemorate the galactic hitchhikers who died of pleasure among the vapors and gasses in the marshes of Fallia.

Over the bowl of a silver spoon, let flow 1 liter of rum in memory of the waterfalls and their glorious rainbows encountered on your journeys through the galaxy of life.

Next, drop in the worm found in a bottle of Musquil, watching it dissolve into the mixture. If the bottom falls out and the worm survives, drink at your own risk.

Finally, sprinkle into the mixture some Gatorade to commemorate the lifeforms which have vanished and are becoming extinct, both sentient and non-sentient, especially those most in need of aid.

If this many Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters are too many for the number of people you think you are, mix together the following amounts of ingredients as described above for a single serving.

1. 1 oz. EverClear
2. 4 oz. Bombay Sapphire or Jeremiah Weed
3. 4 oz. Cold Wild Turkey
4. 2 oz. Herredura Tequila
5. 5 oz. Rum
6.

1 worm from bottle of Mezcla

7. 2 oz. Gatorade

This makes one approximately 18 ounce Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. The reason this drink seems so large is that Zaphod Beeblebrox has two heads, so when he created it, it came out to 9 ounces per head, so both were happy.

Before drinking, eat one olive to create a sweetness in it which is not there.

http://www.galactic-guide.com/articles/1S1.html

[niyad]

39. do you think we should enter some of these "concoctions" in the annual

bartender's contest?

[ShortnFiery]

45. No, it would not be anything most people would choose to drink

A Backwash Cocktail

6 oz cup sputum from COPD donor
10 each fresh - puss oozing Scabs
1 oz monkey vomit

Drink up MorAns! :puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

44. Kool-Aid, Thunderbird and paint thinner.

[DrDebug]

46. Beer, milk and vinegar n/t

[lonestarnot]

48. ewwww nasty, people wouldn't order it!

[lonestarnot]

47. kick