The recipe of the original Blow Job or Blowjob Cocktail tells the story itself when it shows how a girl has to drink it. Open her mouth grab the glass with her lips, tilt head upward and eat the cream, then drink the rest.


This cocktail is not from the height of the Sex-Drink craze era of the 80s. it comes from the 90s when Bachelorette Parties were a fad.


The Blow Job cocktail was made by slowly layering Baileys, Kahlu00faa and amaretto and then topping it with whipped cream and then purportedly, the bachelorette would place their hands behind their back, then; pick-up the filled shot glass with their mouth, tilt head back, and drink.


u201c[T]he mother-in-law is liable to call the whole thing off when she sees the brideu2026 downing a u2018blow jobu2019 shot from some strangeru2019s lap,u201d Herbert I. Kauet wrote in his 1999 guide The Bachelorette Party: Creating an Event Sheu2019ll Remember Forever [Reference ]



It's true that although it's always been known that literature is the reflection of the times a society passes through, if we can really study the names of cocktails, we can learn a lot more about what's happening beneath the surface in a society, at a given point in history.


David Lynch in his cult cinema, Blue Velvet, portrayed an apparently placid society that is unperturbed, and is unaware of the underbelly of it's own existence, the dark underground where the stoic life of the timid and the tormenting rule of the dark exist symbiotically as if one thrives on the other, and then if we zoom out, we find that just like the tormenter and the tormented that cohabit in the underbelly, the underbelly and the civil society are symbiotic too, layered and balanced in a way, as if created by a master barman, and the more you are into it, the better you understand it.


Cocktails like these might be precarious in their names, but they represent the layers in our society like a David Lynch cinema, and are not to be brushed aside as sexual innuendo and toxic masculinity sanctioned in the name of fun and frolic, they are a little more than that.