Calculate How Much Your Cocktail REALLY Costs
Posted by Cracker on January 2nd, 2010Are you an alcoholic occasional cocktail imbiber, but also a parsimonious cheapskate? Then I’ve found the website for you.
"It costs a lot more than it's worth, and yet there is no substitute..."
The Cocktail Calculator allows you to plug in the ingredients of your favorite drink, right down to the tonic water, and find out just exactly how much your drink truly takes to make.
My gin & tonic, which I can pay as little as $4.00 for but only if I want to wake up with a mindeating cheap-gin hangover, actually costs only .36 cents to make. (There’s an option on there to upgrade your cocktail. I plugged in Tanqueray and found that my beloved G&T is still runs at only $1.11.) Screwdrivers cost only .45, while mojitos come in at a staggering $1.07 per drink. In what seems like a grievous error, margaritas actually cost more than mojitos, coming in at $1.50. Have you seen them mix a mojito? I think they should really add the cost of labor in on that thing.
So yeah, that’s how much your cocktails cost. Far be it from me to tell you to stop drinking, though. In fact, while you’ll probably give this post a passing thought the next time you’re turning out your pockets for cocktail money, just have a drink. You’ll forget the whole thing soon enough.
Tags: alcohol
As I slowly become a celebrated drunk, I’ve become painfully aware of this. Which is why I sometimes travel with a flask. Then, when the waiter looks at me funny for ordering a glass of orange juice or tonic, I wink and say “don’t worry, I’ll make it better.”
Hahaha Ordering a glass of tonic. Only you, Jamie. (And now me, because I see how much I’m getting ripped off.)
That reminds of me of the time we went to a restaurant in Venezuela. The waiter was puzzled when I ordered a gin & tonic with a splash of pineapple. They ended up bringing me four things – the gin, a little bottle of tonic water, a small glass of fresh pineapple juice, and a bowl of limes. I’m still not sure if I just confused them that much or if my special request for pineapple pissed them off and they decided to teach me a lesson.