So I’m not a huge straight Irish whiskey fan. I’ve done my share of, “oh god I’m going to puke why am I friends with an Irish guy,” faces as I held up a shot glass a few times.
Here’s the kicker. Pickles in food, along with other acids, neutralize a ton of flavors. You’ll hear the term, “palate cleansing.”
That’s what pickle juice does in this instance. You take the shot, you follow it with a kicker of pickle juice (in a much tinier shot glass,) and boom. It tastes like … nothing? Maybe salty nothing? You sit and wonder what on earth just happened.
They use the same trick with tequila in some places.
I dunno. It’s probably all in my head, but if you said olive juice I could probably roll with it. But drinking pickle juice, that just makes me shiver a little. And I like pickles.
A kindred spirit. I don’t think I’ve ever failed to find something to turn into a mixer.
Crystal Lite and Tequila, Rum and Apple Juice, Vodka and Peach Schnapps.
Oh wait, I was once foiled by a mystery bottle of liquor found in the basement of a rental. Tried everything from Coke to Ecto-Cooler. Brother and I both ended up puking.
How could you start this with some generic Reese’s ad and not the one with Danny Most and Robby Benson? It’s like talking about 60s music and starting with Paul Revere and the Raiders instead of The Beatles.
Maybe… Don’t drink alcohol that tastes like garbage?
I mean, beyond a certain age, the point of drinking is kind of linked to actually wanting to taste what you are drinking.