Fancy drinks

i'm a whiskey soda, gin and tonic kind of girl. I'm going to a fancy shmancy cocktail party tonight for my friend's 30th birthday party, and I don't want to be "that guy" ordering tanqueray on the rocks.

So what's your favorite fancy drink?

I'm a big fan of anything involving juice. Rum or vodka and any kind of juice is tasty, colorful, and impossible to mess up. Also, you get to be a pirate because it is technically grog.

If you want to take it one step further, get a rum runner. It varies, but it's generally something like orange juice, pineapple juice, malibu rum, regular rum, and grenadine. it's tasty and oh so fancy.

A sidecar will never treat you wrong.

Don't drinks generally get simpler at fancier parties?

Rye Manhattan with bitters, or a sazerac or a dark and stormy.

Yes.

Gin and/or vodka martinis are always fancy.

Brass Monkey. Classy.

You can never go wrong with a vodka and tonic. Absolut and tonic is appropriate in any and all situations. Grey Goose if you want to go classier.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. As long as you're not ordering something that requires fruit and an umbrella, fuck it.

It's all about knowing the fancy names of simple drinks, e.g.:

Cuba Libre: rum & coke with lime
Dark & Stormy: rum & ginger beer with lime
Screwdriver: vodka & orange juice
Salty Dog: vodka & grapefruit juice

There's always the original cocktail, the Old Fashioned, if you're looking for some whiskey. And gin & tonics are a totally acceptable level of class.

Order a Scotch and Soda, everyone will think you're a 50 year old male banker

Order a Rusty Nail... Scotch & Drambuie

That sounds painful. Drambuie BURNS on the way down.

Dr. Pepper slammer. Always classy

All of you fail. The trick is to get drunk before the party even starts. That way you won't have to worry about what to drink.

You could always go with a Piledriver . . . which, I believe, is vodka and prune juice

Nothing says classy like a healthy bowel movement.

white russians are about as fancy as I get. and I haven't even had one of those for ages.

I don't know that "healthy" would have much to do with this

i could really go for a lebowski right about now.

Scotch. That's as fancy as it needs to be.

If you want to seem REALLY mature, I suggest a gin and metamucil

I used to order a rum and coke. Now I can't drink, so it doesn't matter anymore.

Sapphire and tonic is also appropriate in any and all situations.