Cocktails that Chris Morris and Nathan Barley would approve of:

[BigMoaner]

Look at the receptacles in the first post. They will be horrible to drink out of. The big fat lip on that jar thing and the metallic taste of an old custard can.
I don't think they're very good attempts at playful presentation. Maybe something that took a bit more thought than "We'll stick it in an empty jar/can/random cupboard relic" would be interesting. This sort of rubbish is so commonplace in hipster bars that it's a cliché rather than experimentation.

it's fucking juvenile, is what it is.

people used to read books and shit.

now this shit dominates.

 

[killer b]

Absolutely, and it's all happened so quickly too. It seems like only yesterday the pubs and nightclubs of Britain were full of people reading war & peace. Now, it's just novelty cocktails and 'selfies'. Hell in a handcart.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's not as if you need a poncey cocktail to get properly wrecked anyway. As I proved on many occasions with my infamous 'JagerBeam.'

Never seen the point of Jagermeister. There are far nicer "hunter's drinks"/fortifying herbal liqueurs on the market, including Stroh's "Hunter's Tea". Still, Jagermeister is sweeter than a lot of the similar concoctions, so it probably appeals to uneducated palattes.

 

[ViolentPanda]

it's fucking juvenile, is what it is.

people used to read books and shit.

now this shit dominates.

Balls. Consumption culture, especially mass conspicuous consumption culture, has been with us for centuries. Torsten Veblen wrote about it in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" over a hundred years ago.

 

[Favelado]

I dunno. If you gave me an ice-cream sundae with a sparkler in it, I'd still love it. That's a nice novelty. A jam-jar of Bailey's with a twig in it, not very exciting.

 

[billy_bob]

it's fucking juvenile, is what it is.

people used to read books and shit.

now this shit dominates.

I often drink and read books at the same time. Does this mean I am an ubermensch?

 

[xenon]

I read off my Iphone, in a pub. And I don't really like ale.

<reports self to the committee>

 

[UrbaneFox]

Homebrew, to drink at home, alone. Out of an old Nutella jar.

With a sausage stuck in it.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Apropos of nothing, I bet you could sell 99 Flakes with a sausage stuck in them rather than a Flake. I bet if you had an icecream van in Shoreditch selling those right now you could literally buy the rest of Shoreditch.

 

[killer b]

savoury icecream cones with a scoop of mash and an artisan sausage?

 

[editor]

savoury icecream cones with a scoop of mash and an artisan sausage?

But reimagined.

 

[billy_bob]

But reimagined.

No matter how hard I try to imagine what reimagined bangers and mash might be like, I can't.

 

[editor]

No matter how hard I try to imagine what reimagined bangers and mash might be like, I can't.

Then allow me to show you what fish and chips looks like. Reimagined.

 

[Blagsta]

Is this what it's like to experience the generation gap?

 

[editor]

Is this what it's like to experience the generation gap?

More about the poverty gap, mate. The cocktail bar faces directly on to a social housing estate, and no doubt the current gentrification of this strip of shops will lead to the traditional fish and chip shop being priced out sometime soon, along with the other shops that serve the less well heeled community.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Is this what it's like to experience the generation gap?

Not really, young people wouldn't be able to afford this stuff.

 

[Boycey]

Apropos of nothing, I bet you could sell 99 Flakes with a sausage stuck in them rather than a Flake. I bet if you had an icecream van in Shoreditch selling those right now you could literally buy the rest of Shoreditch.

i've found that bockwurst is inferior to pepperami when garnishing my aforementioned bloody mary in a jar.

 

[editor]

Not really, young people wouldn't be able to afford this stuff.

Indeed. It was a daft comment to make.

 

[killer b]

The cocktail bar faces directly on to a social housing estate, and no doubt the current gentrification of this strip of shops will lead to the traditional fish and chip shop being priced out sometime soon, along with the other shops that serve the less well heeled community.

Which one? I thought the thread was about an article in Time Out about the best cocktails in London?

 

[Blagsta]

Indeed. It was a daft comment to make.

It was a comment on the current trend for chips in a bucket etc.

/never mind

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Which one? I thought the thread was about an article in Time Out about the best cocktails in London?

Every single cocktail in London includes the ground up bones of the proletarians who previously lived here - FACT.

 

[Belushi]

I like a good cocktail, I'd ask for it in a proper glass rather than an old custard tin though.

 

[killer b]

Every single cocktail in London includes the ground up bones of the proletarians who previously lived here - FACT.

our sours are made with the tears of disposessed children

 

[DotCommunist]

its like the last days of rome, except with funny haircuts

 

[golightly]

its like the last days of rome, except with funny haircuts

Ooh get them with their laah-di-dah, artisan, larks tongues!

 

[billy_bob]

Then allow me to show you what fish and chips looks like. Reimagined.

Ah, so 'reimagined' means 'insultingly small portion of'...

I don't eat fish, but that looks to me like just 'bits', as we used to call them, one slightly squashed pea, and a fish shaped bit of wood to stand in for what should be the main point of the dish in the first place.

 

[Flavour]

is there a bar in London where the staff are all deliberately rude and insulting to all the customers, or is that in another city?

 

[editor]

Which one? I thought the thread was about an article in Time Out about the best cocktails in London?

See post #7. The Shrub & Shutter "neighbourhood" bar faces directly on to the Barrier Block. The video I posted up earlier was filmed in there.

 

[Coolfonz]

Then allow me to show you what fish and chips looks like. Reimagined.

Ooh fish and chips!! I'll have 350 of them please.

 

[Chilli.s]

The problem with cocktails in bars is, for the money, they tend to be piss week.