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Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Brain Driller!
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (569+ words) Greetings, Wonketeers! I'm Hooper, your bartender. Wednesday was National Painkiller Day, and I have some Big Feelings about this tasty pina colada variation. It's a lovely drink, but there's some nasty history behind it. And in 2026, I'm not in the…...
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1+ week, 4+ hour ago (104+ words) I don't have all the answers. But the questions go here. "Life is scary. Drink mezcal." Absolutely perfect t-shirt design. No notes. Why don't more places just add the salt (if wanted) directly to the drink rather than the salted…...
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Mezcalita!
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (525+ words) Greetings, Wonketeers! I'm Hooper, your bartender. God, it's been a week, hasn't it? I was planning to write this column early in the week, and then " stuff happened. The news has been cause to drink for far, far too long....
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Blue Horizon!
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (456+ words) Greetings, Wonketeers! I'm Hooper, your bartender. I have been yearning to write a light, delicate, springlike cocktail for this column " something gentle and festive for the season. The news and the weather have consistently crushed my dreams. No more. We're…...
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, Viva Las Vegas!
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (410+ words) Gifted with a monstrosity? That's Wonkette's music! 1 oz Chica Chida Peanut Butter Agave Spirit 1 oz creme de banana 1 oz Peloton de la Muerte mezcal 3-4 shakes cocoa bitters Pour the Malort into a Nick and Nora glass. Swirl until the interior…...
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, False Spring!
4+ week, 8+ hour ago (354+ words) 2 oz Another Hendrick's Gin 1 oz Creme de Cacao " oz fresh lime juice 1 dash cocoa bitters Splash a small amount of orange blossom water into a Nick and Nora or small coupe glass. Swirl the orange blossom water until the inside…...
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, Irish Whiskey!
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (365+ words) Have a Coke and subscribe! Serve neat. Sip Slowly. Relax. Enjoy. Take a few deep breaths. Put down your phone. Watch the fire. Listen to some Gaelic Storm. It's going to be okay. But Lord, is it ever tasty. I…...
Happy National Flapjack/Cereal/Crown Roast Of Pork Day!
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (491+ words) Fun fact " those tiny paper chef's hats that go on the ends of bones in this dish and also turkeys in cartoons (and maybe in other people's real lives but not mine) are called "manchettes" and they are there to…...
Welcome To Wonkette Happy Hour, With This Week's Cocktail, The Jet Pilot!
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (409+ words) Greetings, Wonketeers! I'm Hooper, your bartender. And dear Lord, THIS WEEK. I had planned to talk about a nice, light, airy champagne cocktail for spring, but I've been doomscrolling way too much to entertain such ethereal notions. Let's talk about…...