Forbidden Pleasures

You should be able to order a drink without asking how much it cost. That is a ridiculous price for a white russian regardless where you are at. I have never asked how much a drink cost before ordering it.

How many times have you been to a restaurant and ordered drinks without knowing how much they cost? I am sure many times.

I think taking this picture and posting it hilarious.

The whole smoking debate should be taken up elsewhere this is about a 9$ white russian....

i drink white russians. while i do like the big lebowski, that is not why i drink them. nor am i a vagina. the key is quality - a shitty white russian is an unpleasant experience. and theres many ways to make a shitty white russian - bad cream, bad vodka, bad bartender or a mix of all 3. the coffee and vodka should balance each other out. but don't try and pull this off by diluting with lots of cream.

best white russians i've had in austin were at the brown bar.

I imagine that some people, if only a sheer minority, drink White Russians because they like the taste of White Russians.

Or because they can't convince a bartender to mix the vodka and the coffee liqueur with a cup of Amy's Sweet Cream ice cream instead of just cream. Which would make something my friends and I like to call a Shaky White Russian, which I always visualize as Mikhail Baryshnikov with full-on delirium tremens.

Because a bartender might not have a cup of Amy's Sweet Cream ice cream available, is why.

Because a bartender's sister might have scarfed it down when she was in town visiting and was messing around behind the bar before the club was officially opened. And she found the ice cream in the back of the little freezer to the left of the CO2 canisters while her brother was busy sweeping up the shards of a tumbler he'd dropped just moments before. And, gulp-gulp-gulp, down went all the Amy's Sweet Cream ice cream, into the sister's practiced maw, because she could never resist ice cream and also because she was paying her brother back for his having used up all the gas --- half a fucking tank! --- the last time he'd borrowed her car. Which car-borrowing had been almost two years earlier, yes, but boy could his sister carry a grudge. Like Atlas, with the grudges.

Anyway, I can't agree that White Russians are "drank" exclusively by "pussies and lebowskiheads." I mean, such an assertion just seems wrong, doesn't it?

I fucking love Austinist. But if you want to lay down some whineyass blacklist bullshit because you're not fucking smart enough to ask the price of a drink that could easily be marked up for top shelf liquor + something that has to be consistently replaced/underused to make sure you don't shit you brains out or DIE? PLEASE. The fact that we still have a smoke-easy out there is hot as fuck and your stool pigeon shite is not why I read this site. I read it because I used to think y'all were badass instead of vindictive lil bitches who are crying over a marked up drink that is only drank by pussies and lebowskiheads in the first place. If I wasn't so desperate to waste time at work I would never read this site again on principle. But, unfortunately, I still will. I never said I was a man of principle.

Anyone with any drinking skills would know that you always place an order for the first round and wait until the bartender or waitress says "that will be such and such, are you paying cash or do you want to open a tab?" - I'm guessing you're one of those "smart" people who gives a credit card up front and just says to leave it open?

There's nothing worse than a rat. Your not only selling out the restaurant, but that gentleman could also face a ticket. Maybe the Austinist will start watching for cars running red lights!

As Noam Chomsky once said "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise."

Private rights groups, like that of the non-smoker, have corrupted our government to a ridiculous point. In this case the government based a law in which they are enforcing rules on a privately owned establishment, based on the supposed pleas of their waitstaff and bartenders. I personally don't smoke and don't like the smoke in bars, but in no way am I going to deny an owner of a private business his right to decide how he wants to run it.

I think I read something last week or the week before that smoking violations would be against the individual and not the establishment.

Oh weird. I thought the forbidden pleasure was the Budweiser lamp that I can never get anyone to go in on with me.

Maybe if I stopped smoking and saved that money ...

some girlfriends don't like lone star. i'm with you, though.

Hey Lebowski

Foosball table=No white russians

Foosball table=Lone Star

MW, you are the schiznett. That was super awesome. Post on brother.

BTW, I like the photo and the title, and I agree, that is the point of a snapshot entry, right? My favorite $9 drink? The margaritas at Vivo's on Manor. Expensive, but so worth it - beats the pants off of any two margaritas anyplace else in town.

Maybe he's not trying to look cool. Maybe he's just enjoying a smoke. Like some people enjoy their smugness.

more ridiculous: the fact that people still smoke, and think they look cool doing it.

for personal safety, I only drink Caucasians I've mixed myself.

Management placed a $2.50 mark-up on White Russians to help offset the atrocious cost of emphysema-related medical bills and foosball-related violence.

yay for smoking indoors! whoohoo!

if there's one thing that takes guts/genitals, it's posting shit to the internet.

look, we're not trying to name names about the smoking ban or ruin the fun for the smokers who enjoy this place's fuck-the-bureaucrats policy, but here: if you walk in somewhere and see people openly smoking near a foosball table, skip the white russians. will that work?

wasted your time? its in the snapshots section for christssake. it wasnt some expose.

So... what exactly is the point of this post if you don't have the guts/genitals to actually name the establishment? That would actually be a public service, but instead you've just wasted two minutes of our lives.

The owner of said (unsaid?) establishment is known for worse than gouging the uninitiated. A word of advice, don't order anything remotely close to a White Russian at a bar like this one, the name of the game is beer.

rather not say. contrary to the first commenter, i'm not trying to get anyone in trouble. just thought it was a cool picture and a chance to express our frustration with that massive tab we received.

what's the name of the establishment??

Can I write for the Austinist? There was a lady at HEB ahead of me in the 10 items line, and I counted 12 items in her cart! Can I post her picture here?