• @ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    397 months ago

    I drank White Russians recently with a friend who is an experienced bartender and bar manager recently and he said they always have Kahlua and milk around. People order strange things but there’s shots that include both that people order more than you’d think.

    He basically said that they make sure they have all the ingredients but adjust quantity for the expected crowd. He works at a music venue nowadays and after awhile, you know what drinks are gonna get ordered based on the band’s core audience. But they’d send a bar back out to get more milk at the corner store if someone was a regular or spending money.

  • @Squibbles@lemmy.ca
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    387 months ago

    Places like the bowling alley aren’t surprising though since he’s a regular and always orders the same stuff

  • @SPRUNT@lemmy.world
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    267 months ago

    I’ve never NOT been able to get a White Russian.
    A Rum Runner, on the other hand, is quite difficult. Banana liqueur is a rarity on bar shelves.

  • @Filthmontane@lemmy.world
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    227 months ago

    As someone that drinks white Russians as my go to drink, I can confirm that this is the case. I rarely say, “I’ll have a white Russian” and instead often ask, “can you make a white Russian?”

    • @frickineh@lemmy.world
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      137 months ago

      I asked that once at a friend’s wedding that had an open bar. They could, in fact, and I’ve rarely regretted anything more than the monster I created when I shared that fact with other guests. Those poor bartenders probably didn’t get to make anything else and everyone was absolutely shithammered because they’re so delicious and easy to drink.

  • @Taringano@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Ingredients:

    • 2 ounces vodka
    • 1 ounce Kahlúa / coffee liqueur
    • 1 ounce heavy cream
    • @vivadanang@lemm.ee
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      17 months ago

      yeah I’m curious what bars don’t have this; sure, been to a bunch of can-only after hours dive bars, but no one’s getting mixed drinks there, unless you consider a boilermaker a mixed drink lol.

  • Neato
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    97 months ago

    The cream/milk is what surprises me. Would bars have that in the 90s?

    • HubertManne
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      207 months ago

      Why does it make a difference that its the 90’s? its not like refrigeration was only invented a bit before that. They had frosted glasses and everything. Im surprised folks would think a bar would not have the ingredients for a white russian.

      • WHYAREWEALLCAPS
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        227 months ago

        As someone who was born in 1969, it sometimes feels like people think I grew up in a cave banging rocks together for entertainment. I think it might be that there has truly been a dramatic shift in how people learn about things. It’s like now that everyone can pull up a bazillion people recording events and watch them unfold it is harder for them to connect to the previous generations, where we all had vaguely similar experiences of information transmission. It isn’t hard for me to believe that sending a letter in the 18th century could take weeks or even months for it to arrive and a response get back to a person. I grew up seeing disclaimers that a response to a letter or order could take 6-8 weeks from a company in the US. Nowadays we get ordering stuff from overseas could take that long, but something from within the states? It’s unconscionable that it would take 2 weeks.

        • HubertManne
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          37 months ago

          For a blast from the past deal with the irs who give me 6 week time frames mostly that they often miss and update me that it will be another. I was thinking a bit like this recently when I saw appletv had blocked off peanuts which is going to make things very different. Growing up every one saw the peanuts holloween, thanksgiving, and xmass specials along with its a wonderful life, miracle on 34th street, rudolph, frosty, etc. Due to broadcast tv we had a ton of cultural adhesion with watercooler shows like friends and seinfeld and such. With everything gated now that just is not a thing anymore really.

      • Neato
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        17 months ago

        Isn’t that when the movie takes place? Obviously there’s refrigeration. My point was what was common in the 90s for a bar to stock? How many cocktails in a bowling bar would take dairy? How many would take Kahlua for that matter? It’s about what would be stocked due to demand.

        • @mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          Bars/bowling alleys often serve coffee, so having some kind of dairy is pretty common.

          Kaluha is probably less common, but its shelf stable so it wouldn’t be that uncommon.

          • TheLowestStone
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            67 months ago

            Plus The Dude basically lived at that bowling alley. It would be worth keeping it stocked just for him.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        07 months ago

        I don’t think of it as refrigeration but tastes being the issue. Milk is rarely used in liquor and who orders milk in a bar. White Russians became popular in part due to this movie

        • @Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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          47 months ago

          It’s kind of unrelated, but you mentioning ordering milk at a bar triggered a memory.

          A friend and I were bored, unemployed, and had limited funds. We wanted to drink, so we went down to this local punk bar. They had bands damn near every night and $4 buckets.

          One of the ska bands told us in the middle of their set that the drummer had grown some habineros and would give a t-shirt to anyone who ate one on stage. It was quiet as fuck, no one was going to do it, so I said fuck it and hopped on stage.

          I mashed the habinero open mouthed and rolled it around. Everyone cheered and and I got my shirt. I jumped off stage and hit a skank with my homie as the next song started. Then it hit me.

          That heat you feel start in the back of your head and roll forward. My eyes watered so much I couldn’t see. I booked it to the bar for relief.

          As soon as I got to the bar, the bartender reached under the bar, saying “I’d knew you’d come up, here, on the house” and handed me a pint glass of milk.

          Such relief.

  • Maeve
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    87 months ago

    The Kahlúa would be my only surprise. Ghetto Russians are alright - chocolate milk when Kahlúa is unavailable.

    • @vivadanang@lemm.ee
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      17 months ago

      Ghetto Russians are alright - chocolate milk when Kahlúa is unavailable.

      spit-take vomit . gif

  • Rob Bos
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    7 months ago

    I’d just like to drop a mention for the Big Lebowski bar in Reykjavik. Awesome place, serves like 30 variants on the White Russian. Great burgers.

    Don’t pee on the rug. They are very clear about that.