80s themed drinks

[julluvsdisney]

Hi dis friends! I need some help! My husband is throwing a 30th bday party for me with an 80s theme! We are planning on having a drink menu with 80s names. Example sex on the beach would be pretty in pink ect. I'm just looking for popular drinks renamed something 80s! Any ideas??? TIA!!!

 

[Lots-o-Huggin]

Bartles and James wine coolers helped me with da ladies back in 86. And I definitely needed help.

 

[TifffanyD]

Miami Vice - haha!

 

[kimmar067]

...an Alabama Slammer...

 

[BDL]

Can't have an 80's party without Spuds McKenzie

How about these for names:

3 wise men = 3 wise men and a baby
pearl harbor = Magnum PI
madras = Cindy Lauper
black & tan = Ebony & Ivory
long island ice tea = Breakfast Club
anything with blue caracau = Papa Smurf

 

[mrsklamc]

Bartles and James wine coolers helped me with da ladies back in 86. And I definitely needed help.

And thank you for your support.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

New Coke

Definitely find one to be called Miami Vice!

 

[fly girl]

New Coke

OH ... good idea!

Rum and Coke ~ New Coke


and if you have a yellow drink name it Pac Man.

 

[DisneyCowgirl]

This is fun! What a good idea.

 

[cornflake]

Hi dis friends! I need some help! My husband is throwing a 30th bday party for me with an 80s theme! We are planning on having a drink menu with 80s names. Example sex on the beach would be pretty in pink ect. I'm just looking for popular drinks renamed something 80s! Any ideas??? TIA!!!

Sex on the Beach was an '80s drink tho... as someone else mentioned the Alabama Slammer, they were both kind of featured in Cocktail. Same as the Blue Orgasm, as I recall, and I hate that movie, heh.

 

[mjkacmom]

Some of my favs from my 80's dance club days:

Sea Breeze/bay breeze (grapefruit/pineapple)
long island iced tea
kamikazi shots (LOVED those)
Jack and coke

And for my early HS years, quarts of colt 45 and bottles of boones farms wine (strawberry and apple - how to choose?).

 

[JaneBanks]

I have no idea what drinks you would name, but here are some ideas.

The Truffle Shuffle

Weird Science
The Outsider
The Toxic Avenger
Teen Wolf
The Gremlin
St. Elmo's Fire

I think your signature drink should be called Back to the Future.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

Jello shots -- can't go wrong with Jello shots

 

[stsomewhere]

Miami VIce-- half pina colada and half Strawberry daiquiri

YUM!

 

[stsomewhere]

DECEMBER 28TH, 2007

The ’80s – decade of dumb drinks
A recent email from a restaurant manager friend said, “We’re throwing an ’80s bash on New Year’s Eve in Sister Sorel and I’m trying to research what cocktails were popular at that time. I was thinking Sex on the Beach, Blow Job shots and White Russians, but that’s where I ran out. If anyone has any thoughts on this, please send them my way!”

Since, unlike my friend, I came of age in the decade that popularized blender drinks, wine coolers, DeKuyper Peach Schnapps and cocktails with sexual names, I readily responded to her first three stabs at drinks of the period. “Oh, yeah, those qualify. And don’t forget about Sombreros, Mudslides, Slippery Nipples, B-52s, Woo-Woos, Kamikazes, Alabama Slammers and California Root Beers.” Aaah, the sweet nectar of spring break — another ’80s phenomenon. (Yeah, I know, spring break has been around at least since Where the Boys Are, but it didn’t become a huge, regularly televised event until the MTV decade.)

In the ’80s, cocktails were climbing out of an era in which innovations in inebriation focused on drugs instead of booze. Courtesy of Ronald Reagan, it was “morning again in America,” and a new generation of young adults entered college with the intention of launching high-paying careers. They toasted to their bright future as yuppies with a new crop of appropriately cheerful (but naughty sounding!) drinks based on vodka, schnapps, Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish Cream and any other sweet liquor meant to be speed-poured into a glass a la Tom Cruise in Cocktail (“Where he pours, he reigns.”).

Those of you who remember the Decade of Dumb Drinks: What were your faves? Did the Sex on the Beach and its ilk pave the way for today’s candy-flavored martinis, or does every era simply have its own ridiculous cocktails?


rinkboston.com/2007/12/28/the-80s-decade-of-dumb-drinks/






irish car bomb
fuzzy navels,
flaming dr pepper
bloody brains

 

[cabanafrau]

Do you like pina coladas, or getting caught in the rain?

Sorry, just had to do it.

 

[Disney Doll]

Sip and Go Naked
Harvey Wallbanger
Sloe Gin Fizz

 

[gm]

Wow!! I remember Wine coolers. Do they still sell them? I thought they were a thing of the past.

 

[julluvsdisney]

Wow Im loving all of the ideas!!! I know wine coolers were BIG in the 80's but Im not sure if they sell them in a bar (do they maybe anyone know) We are having the party at a function hall with a bartender so wine coolers maybe out. Miami vice sounds yummy for sure! I was thinking naming madori sour Slimer (the green guy from ghostbusters)Keep the ideas coming I am writing them all down!! I knew the dis was the place to go for this!!!!! You guys are sooooo creative!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[julluvsdisney]

can't have an 80's party without spuds mckenzie

how about these for names:

3 wise men = 3 wise men and a baby
pearl harbor = magnum pi
madras = cindy lauper
black & tan = ebony & ivory
long island ice tea = breakfast club
anything with blue caracau = papa smurf

love these!!!!!!!!!!!!!