Assignment L.10.4

May 22nd, 2010 - - a post by dale

Hey, look, an assignment.  I know we’re all about the cras melior est, but honestly, can we pull together on this one?

A food writer at the NYT wrote a half-assed column matching drinks to movies.

I think we can do better.

Posted in L.10.4 8 Comments »

8 Responses to “Assignment L.10.4”

  1. 1 Mike
    May 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    Eli and I and our wives do this about every six weeks. Movie night with themed drinks. Let’s do this. Let me think on some of the better ones.

  2. 2 Mike
    May 25th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    Okay, no one else is playing these are the ones I immediately think of:

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Gin and Tonics (obviously)

    ET – Peter Coyote’s Crotch (basically a margarita – the idea was to make it taste like sweaty balls)

    Jaws – Bad Hat Harry (similar to a Hurricane…something beachy and bloody)

    Jurassic Park – Dilophosaur Spit (Sort of like a mudslide)

    Indiana Jones – No Time For Love, Dr. Pepper (Dr. Pepper and Bourbon)

    Harry Potter Movies – Spiked Pumpkin Juice and Butter Beers (I do not know the recipes for these)

  3. 3 dale
    May 26th, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    First of all, there really is a drink called Peter Coyote’s Crotch? Secondly, someone strove to make a drink taste like sweaty balls? How’d that work, do you think? And can I get in on the next formulation?

  4. 4 dale
    May 30th, 2010 at 9:05 am

    For some reason, I’m thinking that if I’m watching “Willie Wonka,” I want to have a cosmopolitan in my hand. Not one of those you get at bars, but one of mine: rich, sweet, candy-colored.

  5. 5 dale
    May 30th, 2010 at 9:08 am

    I thought the article included Casablanca and the champagne cocktail, but upon rereading I see that it doesn’t. So I claim that one.

    Actually, Jobie and I were at one time going to do a co-blog project with the script of Casablanca and all the drinks that are ordered in it. But… CME.

  6. 6 Jeff
    May 30th, 2010 at 11:49 am

    I’m alcohol-illiterate, so I can’t play.

  7. 7 dale
    June 1st, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    Bourbon and branch water for Dr. Strangelove, if we’re being literal.

    Bourbon would also go well with Big Fish, if we’re matching style.

  8. 8 dale
    June 1st, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    Ice-cold vodka for Dr. Zhivago.

    Something with violet liqueur for Adaptation