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Have Your Drink and Coaster Too

Amy Tucker — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:09:43 +0000

Six Flags Over Texas has won their 15 month fight to sell alcohol at their park.

Beer sales start on Saturday and liquor sales will be allowed at private functions. Anyone caught with alcohol outside of the designated watering holes will be kicked to the curb [and one can assume without their drink].

My suggestion is to choose either alcohol OR the roller coasters-not both.

To the drink:

The Roller Coaster

Ingredients:

2 Parts Amaretto Almond Liqueur
3 Parts Grapefruit Juice
ice
cocktail glass

Directions:

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Image|Lostin Texas

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Have Your Drink and Coaster Too

A Grownup Purple Passion

Amy Tucker — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:27:16 +0000

When I was in high school, I was by no means a “wild” child. I never snuck out. I never [well...almost never] broke curfew. I got good grades and I had a part-time job as a DJ. I was pretty much every parent’s dream teenager.

Image|Luxco

Now, all that being said, I did occasionally imbibe at the random after-football game party or the parents-are-out-of-town-so-let’s-party party. Purple Passion was the go-to drink back then since it tastes just like grape soda. Grape soda doesn’t offend the young [and stupid] palate like other drinks might and I didn’t have a taste for beer [the other go-to drink of that age set].

Mint Lip Gloss got me started thinking about the grape goodness with, “Is Purple Passion considered hard liquor? Do they even still make that stuff? That stuff was a staple in college! :)” after I conducted an unscientific survey on Twitter about everyone’s favorite hard liquor.

Red Jade summed it up rather well: “We drank that crap like pros. And barfed it up like amateurs”.

Spoken like a true lover of Purple Passion.

What I didn’t know back then is that Purple Passion is made by Luxco and contains Everclear. No wonder our young butts were knocked on the ground by that stuff.

Another thing that I wasn’t aware of when I was drinking Purple Passion is that “Purple Passion” is the name of a mixed drink. I’m not sure which came first [I figure it's a chicken and egg kind of deal] but after reading a couple of recipes, I say leave the pre-made Purple Passion to the kids [the 21 and over kids] and go get the stuff to make the cocktail.

Purple Passion Cocktail

Ingredients:

2 oz Vodka
2 oz Grape Juice
2 oz Grapefruit Juice
1/4 oz simple syrup

Directions:

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Recipe courtesy of: Cocktail Times

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A Grownup Purple Passion