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Lean or purple drank (known by numerous local and street names) is a polysubstance drink used as a recreational drug.It is prepared by mixing prescription-grade cough or cold syrup containing an opioid drug and an anti-histamine drug with a soft drink and sometimes hard candy.
The first, from an 1870 publication, is "Best Turkey opium 1 oz., slice, and pour upon it boiling water 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or mortar until it is dissolved; then pour it into the bottle, and with alcohol of 70 percent proof 1 ⁄ 2 pt., rinse the dish, adding the alcohol to the preparation, shaking well, and in 24 hours it will be ...
A hot toddy Information board highlighting the hot toddy at Ye Olde Red Cow pub in London. A hot toddy, also known as hot whiskey in Ireland, [1] [2] and occasionally called southern cough syrup [3] within the Southern United States, is typically a mixed drink made of liquor and water with honey (or in some recipes, sugar), lemon, and spices, and served hot. [4]
Old Hadacol box and bottles. Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States.
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice, and fill two-thirds full with the cocktail mixture. Shake for 30 seconds and pour into martini glasses. Add a maraschino cherry and serve ice cold.
B-52 (and related B-50 series cocktails) B & B (brandy and Bénédictine) Baby Guinness; Bacardi cocktail; Backdraft (also a pepperdraft variation) Batida (traditionally made with cachaça) Bay breeze; Bee's knees
Brompton cocktail, sometimes called Brompton mixture or Brompton's cocktail, was an elixir meant for use as a pain suppressant dosed for prophylaxis.Made from morphine or diacetylmorphine (heroin), cocaine, highly pure ethyl alcohol (some recipes specify gin), and sometimes with chlorpromazine (Thorazine) to counteract nausea, it was given to terminally ill individuals (especially cancer ...
Developed in 1934 by Wilhelm and Curt Mast, [2] [3] it has an alcohol by volume of 35% (61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof). The recipe has not changed since its creation, [4] and the drink continues to be sold in a green glass bottle. [5] It is the flagship product of Mast-Jägermeister SE headquartered in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.