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Bacon Cocktail ? Why not!
Thursday 4th October 2012 | Rebecca
I love bacon, but then who doesn't? Don’t say vegetarians, they’re in denial. I also love a drink, in fact I’d go as far as to say I love bacon even more the morning after a drink. I’m a busy lady with places to be, groceries to buy - I need to get things done stat, so thank goodness for the pop up bar in St Bartholomew's Pathology Museum for bringing my two loves together. Sign me up for a meaty, boozy menage et trois.
It seems this pop up bar has been inspired by the rapidly approaching Halloween, as well as London cocktail week, but don’t get too excited as these gory delights don’t open until the 26th of this month. The art to these delicious treats is not as simple as a drunken mind's "let’s dip bacon in vodka", but rather a complex list of ingredients all complimenting one another. Combined with vodka, Jack Daniels, Tabasco, Worcester sauce, black food colouring, paprika, pepper and lemon, the aptly named Charred Remains is one drink on a menu created by the mad scientist of mixology, James Dance.
Other cocktails on this disgustingly delectable list include: Stomach Contents (flavoured vodka, bits of chocolate and Skittles), the Fat (Kahlua, caramel rum, hazelnut syrup and white rum topped with hard white chocolate), the Sanitiser (lychee liqueur, cherry brandy, grenadine, vodka and white rum), the test tube of Urine (whiskey, brandy and limoncello) and the Stool Sample (a mixture of cocoa, coffee liqueur, vodka, and cream liqueurs, strawberry syrup and fudge pieces, all served inside a plastic bag).
Speaking to the Frankenstein of this cocktail monster, Dance said: "These cocktails are creative – it's good fun to make them and I like having a side line to running the bar. Yes, they're supposed to be show stopping but they also taste good. Although I don't put them on our bar menu!”
The drinks have been created as part of "the world's first anatomically correct cake shop" food stall set inside the pathology museum, part of a space run by Eat Your Heart Out, the world's most gruesome cake company. At this cupcake stall expecting a toe nail in your cupcake isn't an east London back street Kinder Surprise but a staple favourite.
Cocktails are undoubtedly stylish and what’s more chic than props from a Saw film to slurp on? It would be a stretch of the imagination to say that I am ladylike so the thought of sipping a Stool Sample through a straw really does appeal to me.
By Becky Tanner-Rolf @BeckyTannerRolf
