Shot Thread

[JimLahey]

Brand new bottle of peppermint schnapps. I'm keeping it here in my bottom desk drawer. Smells and tastes like candy, so noone is the wiser. They think I've been eating mints.
SHOT!

this man is doing it right. i am inspired. let's see if i can finagle a shot at work today....

Am I the only one who had to google "finagle"? I've never heard that word in my life.

[Wingman]

Am I the only one who had to google "finagle"? I've never heard that word in my life.

great word, innit?

[MethFront]

I have no idea why i'm even still awake... WT101Rye down the hatch!!!

[MethFront]

this shot is just to try and cure my hiccups....

[SourMash]

Evan Williams Black, straight (from the bottle).

[ThirstyDrunk]

It's old! It's Ezra! It's 101 proof!
Cheers sissies!

[SourMash]

Evan is not in the mood to be outdone this evening. I see you and raise you one, sir!

[SternoBoy]

I've been away from the board for awhile but I just wanted you all to know that I haven't been idle. In between work and cocktails I have been studying. Planning. Dreaming.

It's important to follow your dreams. Yes, even those that lead to ruin and ridicule because even in ruin and ridicule one can find honor and greatness.

For the last few years at Halloween I'd serve the parents of the trick-or-treaters vodka Jello shots. And they were grateful.

But this year I had a stroke of genius: what are the two best flavors in the world? Tequila and bacon, of course!

And so, I give you... The Tequila and Bacon Jello shot:

FIrst: collect your ingredients. You'll need bacon, tequila and four packets of unflavored gelatin (we don't want to compromise that tequila goodness now, do we?) I also threw in a chicken boullion for salt.



Next: follow the directions on gelatin package. Throw some boullion into the boiling water. Substitute tequila for chilled water. Toss in the bacon. Yum!

Then, pour the mixture into a suitable baking dish and refrigerate for 3 or 4 hours until you get something that looks like this:



Dip the baking dish into really hot water until the gelatin begins to release. Invert and pop the whole mess onto a dinner plate. Slice into bite-sized chunks. I added toothpicks but would have used little umbrellas if I had them.



Looks amazing, doesn't it?

Sadly, like many great ideas, the reality was something less than the dream. Once I overcame my gag-reflex I discovered that the taste was... well... tolerable but the texture... oh dear God, the texture! There's something about chunks of meat embedded in a gelatinous tequila flavored mass sliding down one's esophagus that reaches deep, deep into the medula oblongata and cries out "For the love all that's holy, don't do this!" But you do it anyway because it's something that needs to be done. Because in science, truly there are no failures: just man's never ending quest to push back the frontiers of knowledge. Yes there were people retching in my yard. No, I myself couldn't eat more than four. But God as my witness, I took tequila and bacon - TEQUILA and BACON God damn it! and combined them into what people a hundred years from now will mark as the beginning of the new Rennaisance!

Or something like that.

[ThirstyDrunk]

That is awesome! Disgusting but awesome.
Even better with pics, thanks alot!
Cheers.

[slushfund]

Reminds me of the time I made spam jello. One bite is more than enough.

[peetie44]

yeah

[Savage]

This thread is proof that guys will eat anything, if it has bacon or spam in it.

[ThirstyDrunk]

This thread is proof that guys will eat anything, if it has bacon or spam in it.

Actually it really only needs to SMELL like bacon.

[Bur]

I actually have not yet found my way around to actually liking bacon, maybe I'm just another failure in chain of evolution or sumfin

[BBoozer]

That looks really disgusting. Why work and wait for hours to have this shite if you can just chug the tequila IMMEDIATELY???