And if not, what makes you a bad-ass?

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

Answers

My drink of choice is a grasshopper (1/3 white creme de cacao, 1/3 green creme de menthe, 1/3 heavy cream). What makes me a bad-ass is the fact that I can go into a bar and explain to the bartender (if he's under forty) how to make the grasshopper (including the advice that he has to actually blend it lest the creme de menthe has *too* much bite) without hiding under my barstool in embarrassment (even as my husband orders his vodka martini).

I think I'm losing my bad-ass status though.. I've been ordering white russians lately...

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

Tequila shots may not seem tough in California (I know it was just expected that you could drink them at the small, liberal-arts college I attended near LA), but in small town Minnesota, it makes you a serious bad ass. Bartenders will fall over themselves slicing up lemons for you, because almost no one orders anything other than Grain Belt or Old Mil. If you can drink the shot smoothly, without making faces and *don't need the lemon*, you are a goddess.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

Single malt Scotch, vodka martinis, and tequila shots. Not all at once, mind you. Depends on my mood and the situation.

Tequila shots got me into "trouble" at college many years ago. I had way too many and had my one and only experience with blacking out. I swore off tequila for years after that but I really like the taste, so I'll have it every once in a while now.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who can drink a grasshopper IS a bad ass. My mom made us a couple of those a while back, and it was like frothy green lighter fluid. Serious alcohol.

I didn't know how to drink tequila shots in college; I didn't learn that until my 23rd birthday. Haven't done it in a long time, though.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

No, I don't drink hard liquor neat. I rarely drink it in mixed drinks either.

And nothing at all makes me a bad-ass.

A smart-ass, yes, a bad-ass, no. :)

Judy

http://www.judywatt.com

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

Not a bad-ass at all. I have an extremely LOW tolerance for alcohol. I get tipsy from just 1 or 2 beers, depending on how hefty they are.

I don't touch most hard liquor -- the most I can stomach is the rum in a banana daiquiri.

I'm very boring at parties -- I'm usually the one who has finished off the 4-pack of strawberry-kiwi wine coolers and is talking off anyone's ear who'll listen, because I'm a VERY happy drunk. Conversely I often don't drink at all at parties, preferring to sit back and watch OTHER people make asses of themsleves.

However, my beverage of choice, especially when in the British Isles, is cider. You know -- HARD cider. Jack. The real deal.

Yum.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

I drink my scotch on the rocks, but I'm working on the transition to drinking it neat. Definitely not bad-ass.

I drink my gin and tonics from a sports bottle while playing frisbee golf. Is that bad-ass? Probably not.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

I get about as bad-ass as a Tom Collins will allow me.

I dig all the girlie drinks from cosmopolitans to huckleberry finns.

Ocassionally, I can handle a rum and coke. If the rum is Malibu.

Bloody Marys? Only if I'm feeling butch.

Jackie

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

My drink of choice is Jack Daniel's stright up. Took a few years to get the hang of it. It doesn't make me a bad-ass, just sleeeepy.

On the other hand, if I'm feeling very mellow, I love a good Por

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

I'm having a really great margarita right now. I posted the recipe on Pamie's forum, but I'll repost it here:

1.5 oz good tequila (Cuervo 1800 is perfect), 1/2 oz. Cointreau, 1 oz sour mix, 1 oz lime juice. Shake over ice in a cocktail strainer, and serve in a salted glass.

We use a combination of key lime juice and Rose's lime juice. The key lime juice is really really tart -- we've found that 2/3 Rose's, 1/3 key lime is about right.

Of course, today we were out of the key lime, so I just squeezed a fresh lime, used what was left of the Rose's, and added extra tequila to make up the difference.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 1999

I can't drink whiskey anymore since I blacked out once at a football game (I'd been in the Johnnie-on-the-spot all night chugging the stuff). I don't drink any hard liquor anymore really for the same reasons. But what USED to make me a bad-ass was drinking vodka straight. Not shots, but just a glass, no ice. It was always one of those strong Russian or Polish blends and a couple of times homemade imported Vodka from relatives' celebrations in Poland. This stuff is so potent it tastes literally like rubbing alcohol. We dubbed it "Spirit Juice" because of the effects. Not to mention that my parents actually DID use it like rubbing alcohol at times. Drinking that shit, no one could hang with me....

Ahhhh to be a heavyweight again. (Now....I drink 2 beers, like last night, and I'm totally buzzing)

-- Anonymous, July 27, 1999

I'll taste whatever single malt Pat is drinking, but they all taste like something to strip paint, to me. My drink of choice is a vodka martini, trendy I know, but good. That's if I really want to get drunk.

Lately I've discovered pear cider and apple cider which gives me a nice beer equivalent (I don't like beer.) We just got a hammock and I'm picturing many afternoons wasted lying in it and getting a buzz from cider.

Aside from that, I'm not much of a bad ass.

-- Anonymous, July 28, 1999

If I want to get drunk really, really fast I have a Long Island Iced Tea. That's as girly as I get.

The only scotch I've ever been able to stand is Balvenie. Some folks complain it's too oily, whatever the hell that means. And I do drink it neat, sipping it nice and slow. I only slam it if I want to impress someone, and luckily I don't know anyone worth impressing that way.

-- Anonymous, July 28, 1999

For those of us margarita lovers who can't find key lime juice - or frozen plain lime juice - and are too lazy and cheap to squeeze fresh lime juice - here's a great recipe: one can Minute Maid frozen limeade - one of the same can of tequila - one can of triple sec - and three cans more or less of water. It takes a few pitchers to figure out the exact proportions of personal preference. - - And it definitely needs to be in a salted glass. This makes margaritas by the pitcherful!

-- Anonymous, July 29, 1999