Who invented shots

Unsurprisingly, many consider the decades that followed to be the Dark Age of cocktails. Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich Imbibe! Partially due to the rise of recreational drugs, alcohol itself was a less prevalent means of getting fucked up. Drugs made cocktails seem kind of tame, so they had to adapt by getting fancy and weird. Liquor companies started churning out sweet gimmick cocktails featuring fruit juices, dairy, and crazy names.

It was a true era of excess. According to Wondrich, the history of the shooter can be traced back to , when the Kamikaze first appeared on the scene. It has no particular attributes that would distinguish a good kamikaze from a bad one, like a dry martini or a tart gimlet. According to Mel Magazine , a man named Tom Lehrer created the gelatin shot we now know and love as a means of sneaking booze into a Christmas party on a military base our kind of guy! What we now call jello shots date all the way back to when a recipe was recorded in the very first cocktail manual ever published.

When Jerry Thomas wrote How to Mix Drinks , we doubt he knew his recipe would still be cool over years later. Fortunately for everyone, hairstyles have changed since then!

More and more people began ordering them as something different and fun, and they continued to gain popularity across the country. But what if we told you that you can have these delicious shots without any of the kitchen mess?

I asked the only Austrian I know, Bernard Praschl, an occasional spirits journalist in Vienna, about the theory. Dave Paulick is a partner in Shot-Ski , a Wisconsin outfit that was the first company to commercialize the shotski. Companies like his, Shotz Ski and InstantShotski —which allows customers to turn literally anything long and flat into one in under a minute—have helped the shotski find a place well beyond the slopes.

B ut every now and again, the shotski pops up in the most unlikely of places, like a lakeshore where shots are are often affixed to water skis , naturally and, notably, on the set of Watch What Happens Live , where a shotski gifted to host Andy Cohen by Fallon has met the mouths of countless celebrities.

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