By Ranita Ray
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A simple 3-ingredients-based cocktail, Irish Car Bomb, is enough to instigate an uproar. Detested by many bartenders around the world for its original moniker, this cocktail can land you in trouble. Know why Irish Car Bomb continues to be one of the most controversial cocktails!
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Due to its original offending name, the Irish car bomb has several aliases. It is safe to call it Irish Slammer, Irish Shot, and Dublin Drop.
The "Irish" in this cocktail comes from the fact that it is crafted with three Irish libations: Guinness stout, Jameson Irish Whiskey, and Baileys Irish Cream.
It's a lot like a boilermaker, only with a bomb shot of Irish cream and whisky splashed into a tall tumbler of Irish stout.
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In 1979, Charles Burke Cronin Oat invented this drink at Wilson's Saloon in Connecticut. Oat's Grandpa shot, which mixes Bailey's Irish Cream with Kahlua, inspired the Irish Car Bomb.
Oat added Jameson to the shot and renamed it the "IRA." He named it the Belfast Car Bomb after dropping the IRA shot into a Guinness beer.
Many think this drink's name indicates years of brutality in Northern Ireland. One of them was the infamous Black Friday revolving around the Irish Republican Army's 1972 Belfast car explosives.
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Naval troops frequenting Wilson's Bar slowly introduced Americans to the drink. With a major marketing blitz by Guinness, Irish Car Bomb became a leading name in the '80s and '90s.
Charles Oat has apologized for calling it thus. He urged prudence while naming the drink in his article "The Car-Bomb: The Development of a Historic Cocktail."
It is advisable not to order Irish Car Bomb by its original name. Especially in England and Ireland, pronouncing upsets the public in general.
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