Does anyone here know how Irish Cream manages to stay on a shelf in room temperature for months without going bad??

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I am guessing the alcohol helps preserve it somewhat. They do have a limited shelf life though and each bottle should have a 'consume by date' as well as a twee picture of a milk churn sitting in a meadow full of clovers somewhere. You're better off drinking clarified butter and Vodka.

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I guess it's the alcohol too. My parents found out that it will separate over time. Then you have irish cottage cheese. Ugh!

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I'd say alcohol and also preservatives. (I think the yeast in alcohol is what helps things keep, but I'm not sure of that.)

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Leprechaun piss?

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If it's Bailey's or something similar there isn't any real cream in it afaik, it's artificial. So the rest of it won't go bad because it's got little pickled Irishmen dancing around in it constantly stirring it up to keep it fresh.

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If it's Bailey's or something similar there isn't any real cream in it afaik, it's artificial. So the rest of it won't go bad because it's got little pickled Irishmen dancing around in it constantly stirring it up to keep it fresh.

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That's my excuse anyway. What's yours? Alkies.

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Gay guys don't drink Baileys. They drink Corona, Tequiza, Smirnoff Ice, margaritas, wine coolers, or some other fag drink.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

And Zima. Don't forget Zima.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I wish I could.

By the way, to all you limp-wrists out there, I mean no ill-will. The whole point of mixing cultures is to make fun of eachother. To paraphrase the idea of Carlos Mencia, friendship isn't about being nice all the time, it's about fucking with your friends. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't call you names? A pretty boring friend, in my opinion.

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Dude, margaritas are teh pwn. I make 'em meself in me Anthony Worral Tompson blender. Actually that does sound a bit gay, but if you are ever in Edinburgh, go to Viva Mexico and get a margarita. It's the strongest lip curling shit that was ever mixed and put in a glass.

btw great post on your morality behind taking the piss out of everything being the point to most good friendships. That pretty much summed up the way I feel about it.

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I don't drink Bailey's, the only time I did drink it was in Ibiza during a Jocks (people from Scotland) Versus Geordies (people from Newcastle) drinking contest. We all had to drink a variety of drinks, starting with various different pints and ending with mixed shots, one of the last ones was Bailey's and Lime which was named a cement mixer due to the fact that the cream curdled and became a sticky lumpy mess.

One of the Geordies eventually fell off his bar stool and thew up, we won, huzzah!

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I love Zima with grenadine. That's right, I said it, and I'll break my Zima bottle over a counter and cut your throats out with it if anyone has a problem with that. How's that for zomething different.

Also, gay men drink cocktails a great deal. Kind of nondescriptive if you ask me.

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Gay men do more than drink cocktails. Dragon, I like the Carlos Mencia reference. Some people find him hard to palate, but I think he's got the right idea. If you like him, you might like Bill Hicks even better.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Actually, I do perfer Carlos Mencia. He, to me, is a true patriot, and the best kind of American you can be. The kind that had to fight to be one. He didn't just cross the border and become a citizen by getting a free license, he had to work to get his. In all seriousness, he makes me proud to be American. I also think he's funner than Hicks.

Hicks, to me, is a combination of Dennis Miller, Dennis Leary, and Carlos Mencia.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

You've never had a "Rusty Nail", have you? It's awful... like drinking turpentine.

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

Rusty nails are awesome. It's just that some idiot bartenders don't know what they're doing. There are only three ingredients in a good rusty nail:

scotch -- Cutty Sark and JW Red work well
Drambuie -- not too much
ice

As for Bailey's, it was invented about 20 years ago when chemists successfully found a way to create a stable homogeneous mixture of scotch and milk -- yes, real milk.

I've always been confused about the not rotting thing, too.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

So it's not cream? It's milk?

I thought it tasted a bit... thin.

As for the 20 years ago, I thought it was much older than that... Oh well.

There go my dreams.

Then again, Guiness is fairly new as well. It's not some age-old beer that's been brewed for two centuries.

The only ingredient of an Irish Car Bomb that's very traditional is Whiskey.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I would think it would be a homogenous mixture of whiskey and milk. If it were scotch, it should be Scottish Cream.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Ah, true, dat.

I'm just glad the topic of this thread is alcohol and what I was afraid it would be when I first saw it.

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

I downloaded 'Rant in e-minor' last night.
AFAIK Leary completely ripped Hicks' act. Hicks never said a word about it except once when he was asked why he had stopped smoking and he said (I'm paraprhasing here)" Just to see if Dennis Leary would stop as well."

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Actually, I do perfer Carlos Mencia. He, to me, is a true patriot, and the best kind of American you can be. The kind that had to fight to be one. He didn't just cross the border and become a citizen by getting a free license, he had to work to get his. In all seriousness, he makes me proud to be American. I also think he's funner than Hicks.

Hicks, to me, is a combination of Dennis Miller, Dennis Leary, and Carlos Mencia.

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You know, Bill Hicks is a bit like Dennis Miller. Don't you think?

I don't want to get on a rant here, but...

...no.

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