Irish Car Bomb?

jnimhaoileoin
jnimhaoileoin Baile Átha Cliath Posts: 2,682
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Question for all the Americans here. Are you all familiar with a drink called the Irish car bomb and has it ever been suggested over there that it might be a wildly inappropriate name for a drink???
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,963
    Probably how the Japanese feel about the Kamikaze.
  • Amongst the Ani
    Amongst the Ani @Wobbie Posts: 7,790
    I have never heard of it. I wouldn't think it was inappropriate either. Of course I have never worried once in my life about a car bomb ever effecting me either. In fact other than Goodfellas or a few scenes in a movie I have never even put the words car and bomb together mentally. A drink being named Irish car bomb would be no different than any other drink name to me.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    hipsters like the street cred by having a small percentage of DNA traced back to Ireland.

    Irish car bombs are dope.
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  • jnimhaoileoin
    jnimhaoileoin Baile Átha Cliath Posts: 2,682
    I was over in October for the gigs and I was genuinely shocked when I heard the name
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,865
    Yes. Common drink. We used to do them all the time in college. Inappropriate-ness of the name never came up.
  • pickupyourwill
    pickupyourwill Posts: 3,135
    edited February 2015
    My husband tried one a couple months ago. What's the story behind the name?
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Car_Bomb
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  • eddiec
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    pickupyourwill said:

    My husband tried one a couple months ago. What's the story behind the name?

    It's all Irish ingredients. When you drop the shot in the Guinness kind of 'explodes'.
    It's a reference to IRA terrorist attacks.

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,776
    edited February 2015
    I don't think it's offensive.... but even if you do find it offensive, so what? I mean, okay, be offended.... Now what?
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  • nostackedvinyl
    nostackedvinyl Maine Posts: 857
    edited February 2015
    I've also found it to be a pretty widely known shot and have done many of them in the past. I never found the name offensive even knowing the origin. Part of me figured it was based on the literal meaning. Part of me felt it was a "bomb" like other shots you drop in a glass (a la jager bombs) and part of me felt the name was appropriate considering it pretty much always destroyed me after I took one. . . .or two
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Never thought of it as offensive,

    Though there are other drink names that could be quite 'saucy'... Slippery Nipple, Buttery Nipple, BJ (as in Blow J*b) -don't need to get a time out. There are probably a bunch of others too- I can't keep up with all the drink names the hipsters come up with.
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  • Wobbie
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    Baghdad Car Bomb would probably bring the PC Police out in droves. I understand PC but it would be a better world if people could just chill a little.....there's hardly anything you could say to me that I would get offended by.....then again, I don't have a religion.
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  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    edited February 2015
    The only thing I find offensive is the taste of the drink.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,776
    WhatYouTaughtMe said:

    The only thing I find offensive is the taste of the drink.

    Haha. I've never tried one, but it sounds horrible. I will never experience an Irish car bomb! I'll stick to the Jager bombs. =)
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    edited February 2015
    I'm Irish. I was not born in Ireland nor have I ever been there. I am not offended by the name. OP, are you offended by it? Is an Irish car bomb not served in Ireland?
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    She is Irish and currently lives in Ireland and no it's not served over there. Sorry but she posted that somewhere above.
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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    northerndragon said:

    She is Irish and currently lives in Ireland and no it's not served over there. Sorry but she posted that somewhere above.

    Sorry, I didn't see that before.
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Last-12-Exit said:

    northerndragon said:

    She is Irish and currently lives in Ireland and no it's not served over there. Sorry but she posted that somewhere above.

    Sorry, I didn't see that before.
    No worries, just up late floating around the boards, trying to help lol.
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  • Wobbie
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    northerndragon said:

    She is Irish and currently lives in Ireland and no it's not served over there. Sorry but she posted that somewhere above.

    reading comprehension is not last's strong suit.

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  • jnimhaoileoin
    jnimhaoileoin Baile Átha Cliath Posts: 2,682
    I think the name is inappropriate when you think of the horrific events that occurred during the troubles and the number of deaths as a result of car bombs on both sides. I do understand though that Americans wouldn't necessarily get that as most would have only a passing knowledge of the conflict

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