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AIBU?

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to not appreciate these cocktail names?

18 replies

Bambambini · 09/08/2014 07:50

In a bar in the US and on cocktail menu are "Up the IRA" and "Orange Bomb". Aibu to raise an eyebrow ans wonder if they would be as keen to include an "Alqaedaa Surprise" and "Twin Towers Bomb"?

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Thumbwitch · 09/08/2014 07:51

You should ask them. But it's not that surprising - there's a long tradition of IRA support in areas of the USA, because they never had to deal with the repercussions of the IRA actions.

BadDog · 09/08/2014 07:52

Ask them

KittyandTeal · 09/08/2014 07:53

Wow, I'm usually a bit 'meh' about this kind of stuff but that's crappy.

Get a sharpie and add a 9/11 and twin towers one to the menu.

And ask

noddingoff · 09/08/2014 07:55

Away up the bar and ask for one of the latter two cocktails. They don't like it up 'em (jokes that is - nobody likes terrorism up 'em, obvs)

ROARmeow · 09/08/2014 07:58

Old news. I went to Italy 15 years ago and they had similar then.

"Irish Car Bomb cocktail, anyone?" No, I didn't find it funny either.

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Bambambini · 09/08/2014 08:00

I know it's not that surprising in an irish bar - just thought they might have rethought it after more recent home experienced terror events. Love the sharpie idea on adding a few new additions to the menu!

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noddingoff · 09/08/2014 08:00

The "Belfast Bomber" has been around for years too. Never thought it was funny.

mommy2ash · 09/08/2014 15:36

I think it's just Americans don't get it. I'm Irish and have never seen drinks like that. I was at a football match recently where people were singing the fields of Athenry and when it got to the part where traditionally people shout out Ira there was a weird mumbling with only a few shouting it I found it funny in a weird way lol

Lally112 · 09/08/2014 15:46

Most Americans will only know about the IRA as the turn of the century guerrilla army who were volunteers and actually recognised by the ROI as its own legitimate army who fought in the wars of independence for the republic and not actually the IRA of post dates that you are all referring to. If you look at the history the majority of Irish that emigrated to the US did so prior to or around this time and this is where the support comes form - not the so called real IRA terrorist group you think.

Sallyingforth · 09/08/2014 15:54

I quite like a "Sloe Gentle Screw"

Cornettoninja · 09/08/2014 15:55

I think on the whole Americans are very sympathetic to the ira, it's no different to b52 cocktails which are just as distasteful when you think about it.

Meh, if they want to drink distastefully named drinks and celebrate death and destruction then they can. Land of the free and all that. It's sad for them that they don't look into the subject beyond the name. I wouldn't want to be so unaware of the world around me that I looked like a dick over a cocktail.

calonwyn · 09/08/2014 17:21

I came across a recipe for an 'Irish Car Bomb' cupcake on a US baking website - Baileys buttercream, basically . Quite a few UK posters had commented below that it was in horrible taste, explained why IRA car bombs were no laughing matter over here, and how would US posters feel about a 'Twin Towers' cupcake recipe, only to be told that they should get a life, it was only the name of a cocktail, what was their problem, etc? I was genuinely shocked at how blase they were about it, but as cornettoninja says, if you're so unaware of world events that you don't care what a dick you look, even when others try to explain...

HauntedNoddyCar · 09/08/2014 17:24

Ask for a Boston Bomb. That might bring it a little closer to reality. Fools.

alAswad · 09/08/2014 17:36

I knew from the title that it would be about Irish cocktails in America! I've always been about the Irish Car Bomb thing as well especially as it only ever seems to be drunk by one quarter-Irish Americans who won't stop mithering on about how connected they are to their 'Celtic roots'

Maybe I'll invent the 'Hamas Rocket' and see what kind of response that gets over there...

AlpacaPicnic · 09/08/2014 17:38

I would challenge them, and remind them that two young boys were the only victims of an Ira bomb 21 years ago. Tim Parry was 12 and Johnathan Ball was 3. Just children. Do they think that's funny? Let alone all the other victims who did nothing wrong, just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Jeez, I've got a pretty black sense of humour and even I find that tasteless.

NuggetofPurestGreen · 09/08/2014 17:44

Didn't Ben an Jerry's have an ice cream called Black and Tan and they had to withdraw it?

alAswad · 09/08/2014 18:07

Black and Tan is an actual name for a drink though, it refers to the colours (it's stout and lager or something like that). So it might have just been an unfortunate coincidence with B&J's.

alAswad · 09/08/2014 18:12

(Apparently the ice-cream is cream stout mixed with chocolate, which sounds AMAZING... anyone know if the re-released it with a new name? (Sorry for the total irrelevance to the thread!))

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