Oil Spill Cocktail (or "The One That Killed The Big Easy")

In honor of the BP oil disaster, I’ve come up with a new cocktail that tastes a helluvalot better than the classic “Oil Slick.” In fact, it tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper than Diet Dr. Pepper and hasn’t a drop of either in it.

This one’s a highball and, in honor of the soon-to-be-desolated Caribbean, Magnum energy wine (A favorite of mine I discovered in Tobago).

Directions:

Fill a highball glass with ice

Add 1/4 bottle (approx. one shot) of Magnum Tonic Wine

Top off with Coca Cola (Must be Coke, Pepsi is too thin)

Stir and serve

Magnum’s a little hard to come by, so I found a site that will help you order some and linked it to this post’s title. Just be careful with these because their effect is similar to a vodka-Red Bull (or “Birch”), only harder.

(Magnum, you see, is both an energy AND alcoholic, so basically a poor man’s speed ball. The only real reason to make a cocktail out of it is it tastes like crap alone and tastes wonderfully like Dr. Pepper with some Coke—plus it has all the effects of an upper and booze mixed. The only downside is it looks like something skimmed off the post-BP bayou).