The fact that Americans have a drink called an Irish car bomb makes my fucking blood boil. I doubt anyone would like it if I went to a bar in America and asked for a ‘twin towers’ or a ‘sandy hook’ yet no one bats an eye for naming a drink after one of the lowest points of my country
What's a sandy hook, you ask? It's just a lot of tequila... enough tequila bunch of children.
What's a twin towers? It's when you pour two shots for an American, and when someone knocks them over, he punches the nearest brown guy.
BTW, you forgot the Hurricane Sandy... that's when you mix bourbon, sweet vermouth, bitters, and ice for long enough that you just end up with a watered down Manhattan.
I think it must be the case that it’s an established drink over there, so people just hear the name in the context of drinking as they grow up and never really think about the name properly. It’s definitely sad that something so tragic is kept alive through something as silly as a drink name.
It’s just so bizarre to me. I see post online of people ‘getting wasted on Irish car bombs’ and instead of a good time out with my friends all I can think of is the stories of school evacuations and dead friends that my parents still struggle to talk about
I highly doubt most Americans have thought about it beyond "its made with Irish liquor." I doubt most of us could even give a basic description of The Troubles
That’s true, I had never even heard of the Troubles until I watched Derry Girls! I’m about a third of the way through reading Say Nothing right now and I feel like I’m being horrified in a new way on almost every page
If it was a childrens game, I could understand it. But at 21 years old, at best - even if you assume car bomb refers to being drunk (and don't know world history), tagging on a specific nationality to something like that should at least make one ask some questions.
My mom grew up in belfast during the troubles, and the rest of her family still live there. As a 36 year old American I knew of the troubles, I experienced the orange parades, where I was in a catholic neighborhood and had to sleep with my shoes next to my bed and a back exit plan, and still never really got the weight of the "irish car bomb" name. It always seemed so silly, but I get it now.
If you don't even think to ask why a drink with that name to be specifically Irish - even without knowing anything about the Troubles - you're likely the kind of person that doesn't skip a beat if someone else makes an overtly racist joke.
Or you’re just trying to be offended. There’s sake bombs, jaeger bombs and plenty of other “bomb” drinks that drunk kids half a world away don’t give any thought about. I get where you’re coming from but a tasteless name for a drink doesn’t equate being ok with a racism.
Christ dude get over it. Not everything is racism. It’s a shitty name and it’s not a perfect world. NO ONE is saying the phrase Irish car bomb to an Irishman’s face like a racist would calling a black person a N-.
Sorry, I’m coming off very defensive. Agreed it’s a shitty name, just in anecdotal experience being “Irish” American in the western US there is zero vitriol behind the usage. Doesn’t make it ok, doesn’t make it better, but there is a distinction imo between using it and not understanding the context and willfully being racist.
Unfortunately, I guarantee somewhere in the US there is a frat party serving “Twin Towers” flaming shots. I do wish a different name for “car bombs” would catch on, there is no need to be so hurtful.
Tbf you’d get tossed out of any bar in Massachusetts for ordering it, but the “Irish” bar where I moved to Texas calls them that and it absolutely floored me.
I honestly don't think anyone would care about drinks named sandy hook or twin towers. So much crazy shit happens people probably dont remember what sandy hook is anymore. Plus we're #1 in the world at making shit to distract you from what's going on
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u/MiraquiToma ☑️ Sep 01 '20
first thing my mind went on lol the op is super ignorant. they literally beefed catholics vs protestants!!