![]() Somehow, the combination of Kahlua Coffee Liqueur, Bailey’s Irish Cream, and an orange-flavored triple sec like Cointreau kicked ass at the time, and kept kicking ass through the ’80s. Here’s another layered, ultra-sweet shot like The Slippery Nipple, named in honor of the band that made rock lobsters famous. Bartles & Jaymes definitely dominated the style in the ’80s, thanks largely to its oddly folksy commercials featuring the older gentlemen founders. Bartles & Jaymes Wine CoolersĪnytime someone in the ’80s had occasion to bring a four-pack of wine coolers somewhere, it’s a pretty fair bet things were going (or were about to be going) pretty awesome. Invented in Queens, eventually adored everywhere, it’s equal parts Sambuca (a anise-seed liqueur often mixed with espresso) and Bailey’s Irish Cream. The ’80s were a pretty big era for sweet mixed drinks and novelty shots, and The Slippery Nipple might be the most unapologetic combination of the two. Fun fact: for a wine that basically put Sutter Home on the map, it was actually created by accident. Wine snobbery hadn’t escalated to the nosebleed heights it enjoys today, and there was still some sense that White Zin might share some of the early evidence of “health benefits” found in red wine. It probably shouldn’t surprise that something pink, sweet, and easy to drink became hugely popular in the 1980s. Appropriate, as folks guzzling them in the ’80s tended to end up ridiculously lit. Kind of a tough last name to have, but Butt overcame it when he created the sweet and sour liquor bomb that came to be know as the LIT. The Long Island Iced Tea was actually invented in the ’70s, on Long Island, by a man called Bob “Rosebud” Butt. Remember, the ’80s had a weird idea of what the future was going to look like-possibly more accurate in Blade Runner than Back to the Future II, but we’ll see. The ’80s loved its Blue Curacao, so a lot of the drinks you’d see out there looked like this Blue Lagoon. So sit back, cue up some Tiffany, and celebrate an era when hair was bigger, denim was always faded, and drinks were more fun and a lot less “cool.” Don’t worry, just like your 4th grade picture, drinking culture also had a phase where everything had to either be pink or big or flashy. But it’s kind of fascinating to look at how drinking culture “grew up” alongside you. Unless you were a teen (with a fake ID) in the ’80s, you probably weren’t actually drinking any of these. Who could say no to an Ecto Cooler-fueled Mario Brothers marathon followed by some Skip It?Īnd if marketing teams across the country are paying attention as ’80s kids and our bank accounts slowly grow into middle age and precarious solvency, we’ll actually probably start to see ’80s-era nostalgia crammed into car and breakfast cereal commercials. And to be honest, we wouldn’t mind a brief resurgence of ’80s nostalgia. For many functioning, or semi-functioning, adults, the ’80s were a formative time.
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