Like our South American neighbors, we Americanos know that Halloween is the best time of year for parties. It is one of the few holidays in which you are exempt from obligatory gift buying, encouraged in unbridled wierdness, and notorious riff - raff. Halloween heralds the arrival of party time: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and if you are in the right place at the right time: Fat Teusday and Mardi Gras. All of your most embarrasing moments, crushed into a mere four months!

Since we at Hullaballoo are no exception, we thought we'd share our favourite candy of the season, pilfered from a very out - of - print Bachelor's Guide to bartending, circa 1950. Complete with awful illustrations and a terribly sharp wit that could have silenced Dorothy Parker at her own Round Table; all retained here for your pleasure.

Enjoy!
Beth

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CROW
221/2 oz. Lemon juice
1 dash grenadine
1 oz. Bourbon
Shake with cracked ice and strain

BLACK ROSE
Stir 2 oz. St. James rum in highball glass w/ice; fill with cold black coffee and stir well

BLACK VELVET
2 1/2Guiness Stout
2 1/2Champagne
Pre-chill Stout and Champagne thoroughly; pour into tall highball glass simultaneously and do not stir!

BLOODY MARY 1 jigger Vodka
Chilled tomato juice
1 slice of lemon
Pour Vodka into chilled Champagne glass; fill with chilled tomato juice and float lemon.

ZOMBIE 3/4oz Lime juice
3/4 oz Pineapple juice
1 tsp. Sugar syrup
1 oz White label rum
1 oz Gold Label rum
1 oz Jamaican rum
1/2oz 151 proof (oof!) Demerara Rum
1/2oz Apricot Liquor
Shake violently as if seeing a ghost, strain into 14oz Zombie glass, fourth filled with ice. Float splash of Demerara on top. Spike 1 green cherry, 1 small pineapple stick, 1 red cherry on a toothpick, insert into drink, decorate with mint sprig, dust with powdered sugar. Spread circle of magic white powder around assembled drinkers, signal the tom-tom players, lower the lights, and drink muttering low moans and curses against enemies.

Please remove fangs before swilling. Hullaballoo is not responsible for ingested costume jewelry or other accessories.