Yet another racist cocktail - you’ll never guess what’s in an Irish trash can cocktail

mcdolan – while I see your point in referring to the dangers of alcohol, I don’t think this “waste of ink, time or intelligence” hasn’t been without benefit: it has raised the topic of the dangers of the partaking of drummed up drinks and drummed up names for drinks being served up in bars and restaurants to many young people around the world without their inexperienced young minds knowing what’s in them, or the bad effects of these mixed drinks upon them. The story above also had the good effect of eliciting your own good response, which is full of well-based concerns. However, a reality of life is that alcohol is one of the relaxing pleasures of life for most people (about one in ten people become alcoholics, the rest don’t).

mcdolan – while I see your point in referring to the dangers of alcohol, I don’t think this “waste of ink, time or intelligence” hasn’t been without benefit: it has raised the topic of the dangers of the partaking of drummed up drinks and drummed up names for drinks being served up in bars and restaurants to many young people around the world without their inexperienced young minds knowing what’s in them, or the bad effects of these mixed drinks upon them. The story above also had the good effect of eliciting your own good response, which is full of well-based concerns. However, a reality of life is that alcohol is one of the relaxing pleasures of life for most people (about one in ten people become alcoholics, the rest don’t).

And yes Townie, the Daily Mail interview and story tells how she will live out the rest of her life without a stomach. BTW: was it Katie or Tom who played the banjo?

Thanks to Townie for the chuckles on life without a stomach. But it’s not such a chuckling matter... coincidently, The Daily Mail published her story after interviewing her, her parents and the medical team that saved her life. I think all parents, all young people entering celebratory drinking scenarios, all drinkers of 8cocktails8, all 8cocktail8 barmen and all teachers of students approaching school-leaving age should read her story as given in the Daily Mail interview. She’s a pretty young woman who comes across as a very normal, sensible 18yr old student, ambitious for her future life, now thrown into total disarray. She has been raised by sensible parents, whose side of the story also features in the interview, along with that of the medics who treated her in hospital. It is a heart-breaking read of her tragedy, one that shows it can happen to anybody’s teenage son or daughter out for a quiet celebration of their 18th or whatever birthday. Search online for “I was almost killed by a liquid nitrogen cocktail” and home in on the dailymail link for the full story and interview.

Irish Central has barred my responses to mcdolan and Towngate... why? I demand equality of speech.. or writings. Or else I'll board a jet to NYC and demand a face-to-face meeting with IC's obstreperous editorial computer!

Thanks to Townie for the chuckles on life without a stomach. But it’s not such a chuckling matter…. coincidently, the Irish Independent newspaper published a report of the young woman whose stomach was removed, after she gave an in-depth interview to a British newspaper, The Daily Mail. I think all parents, all young people entering celebratory drinking scenarios, all drinkers of cocktails, all cocktail barmen and all teachers of students approaching school-leaving age should read her story as given in the Daily Mail interview. She’s a pretty young woman and comes across as a very normal, sensible 18yr old student, ambitious for her future life, now thrown into total disarray. She has been raised by sensible parents, whose side of the story also features in the interview, along with that of the medics who treated her in hospital. It is a heart-breaking read of her tragedy, one that shows it can happen to anybody’s teenage son or daughter out for a quiet celebration of their 18th or whatever birthday. Google or Bing for “I was almost killed by a liquid nitrogen cocktail” and home in on the dailymail link for the full story and interview. And yes Townie, it tells how she will live out the rest of her life without a stomach. BTW Townie: was it Katie or Tom who played the banjo?

(My first response to mcdolan has not been accepted by ICentral for some odd reason (it was short and completely of inoffensive language- que gives? This is the second part of my response to mcdolan). ‘Strangely enough, mcdolan, since you raised the subject of the devastating effects of alcohol on people, you and others might be aware, or should be aware, that it has been found through extensive scientific studies that, in America, Irish-Americans, American Indians and the families of both groups are most likely to suffer from alcoholism and its effects to a higher extent than that of other races in America. The science experts reckon it’s in the genes of both races to be most prone to suffer from drinking alcohol. Furthermore, they say the trend of the disease of alcoholism starts to appear in most ‘ordinary’ drinkers at around 35-40yrs of age, though with habitual teenage drinkers it emerges much earlier. Why I don’t know… anybody got info on that? (More…)

What do you promote this crap by publishing it? Such a waste of ink, waste of time, and waste of intelligence! Alcoholism and the devastating effects it holds for families is too much a joke and we Irish are still promoting it. And I'm not a tea-totaller -- I am concerned about the lethal mixes and the amount of drink the young people are caught up in. We're looking at the future of two generations who (uf they live) will be brain-sotted. Wake Up!

jacers!: Well said on balmy booze. On living without a stomach after destroying it; they divert the food from the trachea to the duodenum ... by Stoneybatter and Patrick's Close ... then around by the Gloucester Diamond and back by Napper Tandy's house ... from where it is eventually launched to Uranus! ... Btw: I thought Katie Daly was killed by Tom Dooley...!

Ah folks will yez give over!! Next youze’ll be banning Black Velvet, as genuine an Irish drink as you can say “Oui”! A rose or a drink by any name… But whatever Irish bars in America are planning for next St. Patrick’s Day, please make sure that liquid nitrogen is NOT used to waftingly cloud up some cocktails, as is fashionably common in Irish nightclubs these days. A young woman almost lost her life last week after drinking one of these liquid nitrogen-splashed cocktails and was lucky to be saved by hospital staff and get away with just losing her whole stomach. How do people live out the rest of their lives with no stomach?? Anybody know?

Do you think this drink I'm going to give the recipe for and show a video for is racist? How do you think the white russians feel, and don't get me going on the black russians.

There are a lot of cool names for marketing drinks for St. Patrick's Day: The Irish Sea (Blue Curacao and ginger ale), Irish Mountain (Mt Dew & Bailey's), Irish Cattle King (Red Bull and Guinness) , Celtic Cure (Jamison's with a Harp beer on the side), I could go on all day.

Really......there are a lot of things that appear around St. Patrick's Day that serve to degrade the nationality. Find something REAL to protest. What makes this "racist", the fact that its green or that name includes "Irish" and "Trash Can" together? If an Irishman paints his trash can green, is he racist? I can understand being upset over the Irish Car Bomb, but an Irish Trash Can? Really? How about the Irish "Fix"; Or one that harkens back to the drunk, fighting Irish: the Irish Shillelagh?

I'm for shamrock in a glass of Katie daly's mountain dew.

Oh, you can Pog mo Thoin! All this "racist" crap is so annoying. I am as racist as they come, apparently - I'm Irish and proud of it. But today, if you say you're anything besides, I guess, an Earthling, you're offending someone. (And I'm sure someone will get offended by my use of Earthling since it hints of planetism ... pity the poor Martians or Venusians!) Why don't you just call off St. Patrick's Day altogether if you're so offended by all the attention Ireland gets. Piss off whiners!