Towel Day!

"Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to demonstrate their love for the books and the author, as referenced in Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The commemoration was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams's death on May 11, 2001. " - Wikipedia.

Towel Day is the perfect day to showcase the movie 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' as a special occasion at the Odeon cinema.

Zombie Survival Can

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Unusal Energy Drinks

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Jagermeister Test Tubes

Pre Mixed Cocktails and Spirits

These are something that I found here. They are RTD (ready to drink) cocktails in eco friendly packaging. They're made of thin, softer plaster so they chill quicker and they come with a leak proof dispenser. They're easier to recycle than glass bottles and they look pretty nifty. Like alcoholic Capri Suns.

As my plan is to create Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster as an RTD product, I've been looking and these premixed cocktails from well known spirit brands. The above bottles from Smirnoff are large bottles and serve several people at any one time.

These pre mixed cocktails from other well known brands come in cans so they contain enough for just one person.

These are some more that come in single serve portions. The picture isn't very big and it's a little difficult to tell if it's a bottle or a can, but still. Single serve options may be a good idea for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster but I think you're only supposed to drink a small amount at any one time so they would maybe some in miniature size bottles?

 

More pre mixed cocktails from West Eleven this time. These are large bottles to serve several people at any one time, or to serve one person many drinks. To each their own. I actually really like the design for these bottles. They look quite whimsical with a mixture of type and image and just two colours. They're simple but effective.

That is a whole lot of miniature bottles right there. I love getting miniature bottles myself, I have quite a collection building but most of them are back home in Grimsby and not here in Leeds. When I was in Gibraltar the booze was so cheap it was unbelievable. I found some amazing miniature bottles but couldn't bring them all back. I did find some Chartreuse miniatures which I haven't seen anywhere in this country, so I brought those back with me. Some of the bottles were amazing. I found this really tall thin one that had some kind of tequila in it but I'm kicking myself for not getting it there and then. The bottle shape that will hold my Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is going to be quite important.

Pan Galactic Recipe

Recipe from the book:

•  Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit.
• Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V.
• Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzine is lost).
• Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it (in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia).
• Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones; subtle sweet and mystic.
• Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian Suns deep into the heart of the drink.
• Sprinkle Zamphour.
• Add an olive.
• Drink... but... very carefully.
  
  Deciphered recipe
  
  
  
  • It should contain strong gin (possibly freeze-distilled).
  • The drink should be at least slightly fizzy, to represent the marsh gas. This could be achieved by either using a fizzy ingredient or by carbonating the mixture using something like a SodaStream.
  • It should smell pleasant, as suggested by both the marsh gas and the hypermint extract.
  • It should have at least a subtle minty flavour.
  • It should taste fairly spicy.
  • It should have some form of powder or sprinkles on top.
  • It should have the sharpness of biting into a lemon and, possibly, some flavour of lemon.
  • It should be light green in colour.
  • It should be served with an olive.
  • It should be served cold (ingredients from the freezer, or shaken with ice).
  • It should be very potent.
  This still leaves the properties of ingredients one and three unknown, except that they are likely to be some sort of spirits. The 'sea' water may also be supposed to be an aqueous (water-based) liquid of some kind.
  Suggested Ingredients
  
  • Strong white rum, kept in the freezer.
  • Cheap, fizzy, cider.
  • Cubes of strong gin, previously made in the freezer ice tray.
  • Some form of mint liqueur for flavour, aroma and colour.
  • Lemon oil - not too much.
  • A dash of green Tabasco.
  • A sprinkle of cinnamon.
  • An olive, to serve.

Hitch Hiker's Movie Stills

Two stills from the movie. Which I happen to have on my laptop, how very handy. It's a little hard to see but it almost looks like there is no liquid at all, and all there seems to be is smoke, like dry ice. I'm going to assume from this that the drink itself if very clear. I always imagined it to be as blue as the...vase thing next to them. Everybody has their own interpretation though, right?

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

These are three of the most interesting images that I pulled out of Google Images from the term 'Pangalactic Gargle Blaster'. It's the fictional, and potent cocktail from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, created by Zaphod Beeblebrox. I'm not entirely sure what colour it is, it's never really described physically in the books though it is supposedly like "is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." Without images, I imagine it to be an insane neon colour like shockingly blue or green.