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    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids
    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids
    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids
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    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids

    By Sam Slaughter

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    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? is a tongue in cheek cocktail book for the former '90s kid and those just discovering how cool old-school Nickelodeon and Delia's once were. With recipes for alcoholic versions of childhood favorites like Ecto-Cooler and Mondo as well as creative pop-culture inspired originals like the Rum and Stimpy and Semi-Warmed Kind of Cider, this is a perfectly giftable mix of humor, nostalgia, and tasty recipes.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781524854461
    Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids

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      Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum? - Sam Slaughter

      For monica

      Table of contents

      Introduction: I love the '90s

      Tools

      Glassware

      Basic Mixing Techniques

      Converting to Metric

      Building Your Basic Bar

      A Note on Difficulty

      Recipes

      The Fresh Mint of Bel-Air

      Juice Box Iced Tea

      Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?

      The Tubthumper

      Mambo No. 5

      The Pog

      The Slammer

      Pickleodeon

      Kimmy Gimlet

      Fernetscape Navigator

      Slimy Mary

      Baby Got Black Label

      Jägerbomberman

      Jägerbomberman 64

      I Saw the Wine

      I’m Too Sexy for This Grog

      The Mud Dog

      Crème Rules Everything Around Me

      Nothing Compares 2 D.E.W.

      Semi-Charmed Kind of Cocktail

      Red Room Punch

      I’ll Never Let Yuzu Go, Jack

      Baby, I Love Your Wray

      Livin' La Vida Coco

      As Long As You Rum Me

      The A/S/L

      Windows 75

      House of Painkiller

      The Gin Red Line

      The Rossi & Rachel

      Pop Culture

      Nothin’ but a Mead Thing

      Wicked Good Basil Cocktail

      Saved by the Jell-O

      Ginny in a Bottle

      I’m the Cocktail, Gotta Love Me

      Hey Arnold Palmer

      The Rye-u and Ken

      The Burden of 90 Proof

      Blue Da Ba Dee Da Ba Dyed

      Delightful Orange Drink

      Clearly Citrus

      Box of Chocolate

      Ghost-Busting Juice

      Aloha Punch

      The Y2K

      APPENDICES

      syrups

      infusions

      Preparing to Get Jiggy Wit It

      '90s DRINKING GAMES

      acknowledgments

      Index

      Introduction:

      I Love the ’90s

      When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for Friday and Saturday and the TV shows I looked forward to all week. On Fridays, there was ABC’s TGIF lineup. That meant the Tanners, the Matthews family, the Winslows, and the Fosters and Lamberts. I watched as families came together, fell apart, and then came back together to the dulcet sounds of uplifting instrumental music (or in the case of Full House, a number laid down by Jesse and the Rippers).

      Saturday nights were much more important. If you were lucky enough to have cable at the time, you know what block of TV meant the most to ’90s kids like me: Saturday Night Nickelodeon, better known as SNICK. Shows like Clarissa Explains It All (Melissa Joan Hart would later show up on TGIF as Sabrina the teenage witch); The Adventures of Pete & Pete; The Ren & Stimpy Show (which only about half of my friends and I were allowed to watch); my favorite, Are You Afraid of the Dark?; and later, All That and Kenan & Kel shaped my childhood taste and took me into angsty teenagerdom and a new century.

      I bring up these two nights of television because, for me, they are the epitome of ’90s nostalgia, bringing back happy memories of the comforts and fun of childhood. Now, at almost thirty and working and paying bills and doing all of those responsible grown-up things, I truly, madly, deeply miss the ’90s.

      This book is a booze-filled, playful attempt at getting those warm childhood feelings back.

      Sure, it’s not a perfect science—I can’t bring back the exact feeling of my family’s old burgundy couch, and I can’t bring back the anticipation for the newest game for my Sega Genesis, and I surely can’t bring back that weird Orbitz drink (not that I would necessarily want to)—but I’m offering something maybe better: nostalgia in a glass.

      On that note, let’s get to the drinks. In this book you’ll find recipes for original craft cocktails that have a little fun with ’90s pop culture and a selection of drinks from my childhood that I’ve booze-ified.

      You’ll also find playlists, games, and other ideas to help you plan the best ’90s party since 1999 (though this time, we can feel safe in the knowledge that Y2K isn’t going to destroy our entire infrastructure).

      ***

      Nostalgia often evokes good feelings. Cocktails often evoke good feelings. That’s what this book aims to do.

      Recommended Tools and Glassware

      Before you get started reliving the ’90s, you’re going to need some tools to make the drinks themselves. Below, you’ll find a list of the things that are generally good to have on hand for making a variety of drinks, including all of the ones in this book. Depending on how many people you’re making drinks for, having between two and

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