To think “Pornstar Martini???” Ughhh!

[Shoppingwithmother]

I don’t consider myself to be prudish in general, but I just received an email from Miller & Carter Steakhouse, saying:

“Another bank holiday is on it’s way, and with the lighter nights and warmer weather, it’s a great chance to indulge a little with our perfectly crafted cocktails, exquisite food, and create more special memories with friends and family.

So toast the holiday with our signature Pornstar Martini.....”

AIBU to think that’s just a bit unnecessary? It’s like someone trying to be all big and clever.

Yes, I’d love to treat my family to a Pornstar Martini....it’s my daughter’s favourite restaurant....we can all experience the glamour of being a porn star together as a family...happy bank holiday!

(Yes, I know it’s not for children...I just think it’s all a bit ....🤮)

They have chosen that as the “signature” of their restaurant.

I once ordered a ‘slow comfortable screw up the wall’ can’t remember What it tasted like!

It’s just a cocktail so can’t be arsed about that

Yanbu. I hate the causal normalisation of the porn industry. Similarly with the use of the word pimp.

I used to enjoy a Slow Comfortable Screw, but do enjoy a PSM these days.

It’s just a silly name.

Love the drink hate the name too

Pornstar martinis give me diahorrea as I have an intolerance to passion fruit.

That’s not the only bottom problems associated with pornstars. Fecal incontinence due to anal penetration is on the rise, especially so in young people who are coerced.

As delicious as the cocktail might be the normalisation of the word “pornstar” as something cool and aspirational is grotty and worrying. Especially considering the number of young teens forced into sex acts displayed in porn.

I don’t think it’s a nice way to promote your business.

Enjoy your bank holiday.

Pornstair martinis are delicious. What about a slippery nipple? Or sex on the beach?

Best post on this thread @CircleSquareCircleSquare

I’d like a consensual bonk on the dunes - not a sexually exploitative fortified wine please.

I hate the name too - I don't like the way the words pimp and porn are so mainstream, and that my daughter asked me what porn was when she 8, because she had seen 'property porn' on the internet.

You've obviously not tried a slippery nipple then 😂

Some of the replies on this thread have also made me think - what is it with the simultaneous snobbery/inverted snobbery on Mumsnet.

Anything that’s at the “quite nice really” level seems to be something that is despised and looked down upon. Today it’s this restaurant selling nice steak and chips for nigh on £30 that is shit. Oh and Range Rover Evoques - they’re shit as well. Usually it’s how shit Costa Coffee is.

They’re all things that would be considered quite nice by your average person in the street.

Just out of interest, Keneft, what do you consider to be a classy car?

@soupforbrains Yup, you know me! Love a Porn Star Martini! Great cocktail place near me does them so well. Had some hugely fun girls nights out in there knocking those back....yum! Can't beat a bit of Passionfruit and Prosecco imho. Don't drink it for the name but my cocktail of choice as it happens. May or may not have convinced a few MNters to join me on the darkside in the past! Chin chin!

I do quite like an Irish Disco Biscuit as well.

You don’t fancy a Slow Comfortable Screw Against The Wall then?

They are actually lovely and I like them but I rarely order them because the name makes me cringe too so YABU but also YANBU

vitara nah.

I go out a lot in London a few places have changed it to a passion fruit martini if you want one just order that it's the same thing

Don't see the issue. it's an extremely common drink. You can buy it anywhere these days,Revolution do Pornstar Martini fountains
M&C is decent enough. Quality mid range place but wouldn't call it upmarket. Bit overpriced really for what it is. End of the day it's just a chain, rather give an independent my money. that's a different post though

It's a well known, and poorly executed drink in a shit over priced steak house.

There is far more to worry about than this.

but I wouldn’t choose it as the signature cocktail for my restaurant chain’s bank holiday advertising campaign

Well unless you own a chain of restaurants, you don’t have to

I read that as Pornstar Martin.

I was thinking - Chipendales is not family fun.

But yeah some cocktails have odd names often very sexual.

My favourite was Horny Moon when I was a student :)

Yabu I love making my husband ask for a couple of blowjobs when we go out.

We have a 'condoms and cabbages' restaurant in our town..

Maybe the whole thing was meant to be sexual - I didn’t mention it in the OP, but it wasn’t just a cocktail - they also want to recommend the “ultimate sharing experience - a Long Bone Tomahawk steak!”

“We’ll share a long bone and have 2 pornstars please...😁”

Just out of interest, Keneft, what do you consider to be a classy car?

One you don't notice, and you can't tell whether twenty years old or not, like good couture. An example would be an E-Class estate with 250k miles on the clock, but perfectly clean and immaculately maintained. Of course better would be the Bristol 411 your father left you.

Oh, and did the email the OP got really say "Another bank holiday is on it’s way".

They can fuck right off for being unable to spell, as well.