Are You ready For The McNuggetini

Would you serve these to guests over the holiday's? This story comes courtesy of delish.com

 The stuff of legends, the McNuggetini is making the rounds once again. This fateful combination of vanilla vodka and chocolate milkshake with a barbecue sauce and McNugget garnish was born of a compulsive need for McDonald's nuggets plus the insatiable thirst for the perfect cocktail-as-meal.

Los Angeles residents, Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark (pictured), conceived of this unlikely media darling during spring 2008, after searching their hearts and culinary imagination for the ultimate drink that combines dinner, cocktail, and dessert. The charismatic duo created a three-minute instructional McNuggetini-mixing video, which has been viewed 138,000 times (and counting). And they've been featured in dozens of news media outlets, including The New York Times online, HuffingtonPost.com, and NBCNewYork.com. The actual drink ingredients toe the line of normalcy: one large McDonald's brand chocolate milkshake and three or four shots of vanilla-flavored vodka, a combination that tastes a lot like a White Russian, according to Ward and Hardstark. But even the drink's creators find the garnish a little hard to stomach. They coat the rim of a martini glass with barbecue sauce and perch a jaunty half-sliced McNugget on the edge. Personally, I find the mix of savory and sweet elements a delight, though fake-smoky bbq sauce and chocolate milkshake sound like they would taste slightly vile when mixed. I'd rather indulge in a good old McDonald's sundae with french fries for dipping instead, thank you very much.

The phenomenon of meat cocktails is fairly taking the cocktail world by storm, as quirky mixologists (professional and non) dream up drinks like the sandwich-themed Cheeseburger and BLTcocktails recently released by Flor de Caña rum. I have also been lucky enough to sample a bacon martini at a dingy East Village bar in New York City, which was made with bacon-infused vodka (slightly smoky with a gamey meat edge) and garnished with a Slim Jim swizzel stick (embarrassingly delicious).

Whether these meat cocktails will go from Internet curiosity to neighborhood-bar standard is any one's guess, but we applaud the tongue-in-cheek spirit of these unorthodox boozy creations.

Courtesy of delish.com