Ray's Failed Cocktail Lab
Added 2024-04-18 21:05:28 +0000 UTCThis is a heavily-updated and newly-illustrated version of a piece that originally ran in the Assetbar on September 4, 2009. It features minor appearances by aquavit, egg whites, and Emeril LeGoinegasque.
Comments
Consomme Ruinart? For the French Toast I would go more in the direction of (a big buttery) CA Chard and maple liquer, cinnamon stick garnish (or cinnamon and sugar rim if you like eating sand) but that's starting to feel a bit more New World than intended. That said, I always understood the traditional French Toast to be "Vive la France!"
Brian
2024-09-12 15:42:06 +0000 UTCI made Pepto and vodka shots a few weeks ago! Shockingly delicious!
Gavin Byrnes
2024-04-21 05:54:46 +0000 UTCGiggling and kicking my feet
A Cloth Map
2024-04-21 05:48:43 +0000 UTCAbout a decade ago a drunken night with friends lead to the invention of many Pepto-based cocktails. I believe the one with gin was the best-tasting. Inventing drinks is fun.
Julie
2024-04-20 19:30:04 +0000 UTCActually the format of this piece alone (high concept followed by cold reality) was like 75% of the laughs for me
Doc G
2024-04-19 17:47:15 +0000 UTCHow many times did this assembled group consider, but wearily decide against, correcting Ray about Emeril/Emerils? At least a dozen over the course of the night, right? If not for the aquavit, a repeated faux pas introduced into an anxious brain like that could be a real day-ruiner.
Theo Freedom
2024-04-19 14:07:03 +0000 UTCThe Ray-Emeril dynamic in this is fantastic. I need to just do a straight re-read of the whole strip (and blogs) at some point, but I can’t remember them ever sharing panel space. As far as the cocktail creations go… Reminds me of the days of my 20s, trying to invent the next great cocktail. My best shot was “The Improved Screwdriver” — a Screwdriver with Cointreau instead of OJ. In practice, name proved a misnomer.
Thomas Williams
2024-04-18 23:55:47 +0000 UTCWhen Beef said Karl Marx, my mental image was of Rasputin (just like Ray). Realizing my mistake and looking at a picture of Marx did not sanitize the idea at all
C C
2024-04-18 23:00:20 +0000 UTCI heard the Baked Potato song with the same tune and cadence as the (non-"la") opening line of the Banana Splits theme.
John Robinson
2024-04-18 22:28:29 +0000 UTCBarfed-out cheese tots is exactly what Emeril would have made if the Whispering Snake had bit him a little harder. My local grocery store's hot food area serves a hash brown casserole that looks exactly like that idea.
Chris Onstad
2024-04-18 22:10:15 +0000 UTCPlease run them by him and see where it goes.
Chris Onstad
2024-04-18 22:08:48 +0000 UTCMaybe you float the leavened mixture on top of some champagne, like that raft that forms on top of boiling meat scraps.
Chris Onstad
2024-04-18 22:08:26 +0000 UTCOK first of all, I was eating some lovely chili cheese tater tots while I read this, and as soon as I got to the first drink I had to stop because it nearly made me barf. Secondly, my dad is one of those hard-of-thinking Emeril type guys. He always was, but now he has Alzheimer's so it's even more pronounced.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-04-18 21:44:11 +0000 UTCAs someone who likes nonsense cocktails, they're all halfway to something decent. Like I bet the guy near me who invented a savory whiskey cream could fix these
Minda H
2024-04-18 21:16:46 +0000 UTCi wonder if the french toast would work if the champagne was added as a floater 🤔 that one feels like it's still got legs
David Kettler
2024-04-18 21:16:36 +0000 UTC
