Thanks guys. I'll give both a shot. I've heard of Gin and Tanqueray, but what is a Pucker (a type, brand, etc)? Told you I'm new to this

I'm going for smoothies, as its kinda healthy (fruit!!) and its something that both I and my significant other can enjoy as she dislikes beer.

Carolans is very similar to Baileys, only a little bit cheaper and as good.  

ha ha! my friend you've come to the right place. i used to work at a jamba juice, and every once in a while my coworkers and i would make special smoothies.

you'd think vodka would work, since vodka goes with everything. but take my advice: stick to rum or tequila (daquiris or margaritas). i wouldn't suggest kahlua or any alochol that's already very sugary. the thing is, when you mix the processed sugars in something like kahlua or triple sec with the natural sugars in fruit, it ends up tasting kind of, well, bad. that's my opinion anyway.

here are some of the recipies we liked:

mango margarita:
4-8 shots tequila
4-8 shots OJ (what portions depend on how strong you like your drink)
2 scoops lime sorbet
4 scoops IQF mangos
add crushed ice to produce the right consistency

berry daquiri
4-8 shots white rum
4-8 shots cranberry juice
2 scoops raspberry sorbet
3 scoops IQF strawberries
1 scoop IQF blueberries
(any mixed berries would probably do; add ice as before).

piña colada:
4-8 shots white rum
4-8 shots pineapple juice
2 scoops pineapple sherbert
2 scoops lime sherbert
1 scoop IQF bananas
2 TB dried coconuts

*IQF = internally quick frozen

be sure to use a high-quality blender. shaved or crushed ice will blend much more easily than cubed ice. you could also try a milk shake version that'd include roughly equal proportions of:

milk or chocolate milk
bailey's
kahlua
amaretto
*many others, such as creme de menthe or creme de cocao
ice cream or frozen yogurt


have fun, just be careful drinking sugary drinks - the sugar crash is worse than the hangover!

Thanks for the info guys, especially about the sugar. I'll start experimenting next week when I get a paycheck (and it's forcasted to be in the mid 90's, YaY!).

Of all the many stupid things I have done in my life smoking cigarettes is at the top of the list. It is harder to kick than masturbation and not nearly as much fun. I personally don't drink very often anymore myself either. Once every few months I feel like getting hammered and end up drinking till I feel like superman and having fun with the lady till we pass out

smoking sucks! i'm going on the patch... soon. i swear.

does that make smirnoff ice and tequiza forms of heresey? if so, then here we have original sin:

that's why this bar has both a smoking section and a running with scissors section   

A-F'ING-MEN! i can't stand the new malt beverage "craze." guh. tastes like battery acid sweetened with aspertame. i mean, sure, there's always been some kind of teeny bopper booze around: traditional schnapps, boone's farm, etc. i remember hearing that it became illegal to advertise hard liquor in the U.S. on TV, which is why so many of these companies developed these crappy "malt beverages" -- just to have something to advertise!

i agree as well that it's about finding your drink, and i think it starts with finding a beer. i've heard more people say they simply don't like the taste of beer than i can count. yet every one of them that i've known for long enough has eventually come over to the age-old tradition of drinking beer (or ale, meade, whatever). egyptian heiroglyphs indicate that the seasonal workers who helped build the pyrimids were paid at least partly in beer. the probably pilgrims landed on plymoth rock, rather than warmer climes to the south, because they ran out of beer. i think the most important thing a budding young drinker can do is figure out his/her beer of choice.

the same thing is happening with cocktails. my dive bar has a "martini" happy hour, except their all these sweetened recipie type martinis, like sour apple-tinis and rocket pop -tinis and oatmeal cookie -tinis. they taste good as deserts, but they're aren't for a real drinker.

my view on alcohol and sugar is that they don't mix very well. too much sugar in your alcohol leads you to have a sugar high and be drunk, except that you crash from the sugar high long before you're sober, drink more sugarey drinks, and end up getting utterly wasted just because you don't want to sugar crash. fruit sugars seem to be a little less severe in this. well, that's my point of view anyway. when i do make sugarey drinks, i make them strong and use hard liquor exclusively - to maximize the buzz in relation to the sugar high.

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this is a general question to anyone reading: what is your opinion of jager?

I like lots of diffrent drinks from the really hard stuff to what some call koolaid drinks. I drink for the taste more than the buzz. If it tastes like crap its no good.

Not a big fan of Jager. I don t hate it but I avoid it.

Ah ic, your religion is 'personal' as in being of one person! lol

Beer and Rye, never go wrong.(Not together)