Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartender's Guide [Paperback]

Donna Sue Boxcar (Author), Ruby Ann Boxcar (Foreword)

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From Publishers Weekly

Following in the footsteps of Ruby Ann Boxcar (Ruby Ann's Down Home BBQin' Cookbook), sibling Donna Sue Boxcar serves up the liquor to go with her younger sister's cooking. But the outcome isn't quite the same-the asides aren't as witty (mostly, they are straightforward, but with g's lopped of the end of words, as in "marryin' your own cousins"). Many of the drinks might actually please drinkers who don't live in trailer parks, though. Boxcar, who works as a barmaid and exotic dancer at the Blue Whale Strip Club, opens her book up with a toast: "May your glass always be full and your bottom up." After a solid primer on stocking the bar and bartending tips ("don't be afraid of tastin' a guest's drink before servin'... but never take a sip from a guest's glass, unless you know for sure he's in the bathroom"), Boxcar breaks down chapters by alcohol type, offering her own mixes alongside traditional drinks: there's the Quickie (bourbon, white rum, triple sec), the Italian Surfer (brandy, amaretto, pineapple juice, cherry) and the Stripper's Slipper (gin, triple sec and several juices). The often funny photos might warrant a toast, such as a photo of stripper Ms. Amy with a pet slug on her shoulder, which prompts Boxcar to recall her own animal act: "I was performin' and a cockroach fell out of my bra."
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (September 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806525657
• ISBN-13: 978-0806525655
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,073,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT book for anyone who enjoys a drink and a laugh, December 13, 2003

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Theresa Lewis (Burbank, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartender's Guide (Paperback)

A while ago my husband decided to take up bartending as a hobby. He got a drink guide, but that's all it was: a drink guide. So this past November for our wedding anniversary I bought him this book. He was thrilled. Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartending Book does what all other mixology books should do: it takes you by the hand, and shows you how to set up a bar, what items are the most popular, and how to mix a drink correctly. This book first introduces you to the wildly zany coworkers of Donna Sue's at the Blue Whale Strip Club where she dances and enjoys making drinks mostly for herself. Then after you've laughed till you've cried, it teaches you about the tools of the trade, teaching you things like what glass to use, etc. It gives you mixing tips, and then a whole lot of drink recipes, which are divided by the main ingredient in them. It has a chapter a list of what your humble but equipped home bar should have. It also has a great chapter on shots and one that even includes bad pickup lines. As a bartender, my husband is far from pro, but now he has a skill he can use when friends come over as well as some funny Donna Sue stories to share. The book is informative, precise, extremely comical, and very very helpful.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Gift, November 28, 2003

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Tommy (New England, but formely of Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartender's Guide (Paperback)

I would gleefully confer even more stars upon this book if I were allowed. When I retired from my post as bishop, my staff gave this book to me as a gag gift since they knew I take pleasure in a cocktail on occasions, and I dally at fundraisers and social events in the art of mixology. With the extra time I quickly found on my hands, and with the need to take a small break from the readings that my job had required, I set down in a comfortable chair and jumped into what can best be described as the "Gospel of Donna Sue". After several hours and a box of tissues, I closed the cover and realized that I had not laughed as hard in the past twenty years at any book, television program, or motion picture as I had while walking in Donna Sue's world. The stories are filled with people and events that I dare any reader not to double up over. Plus the recipes actually sound both tasty and intriguing. The hints are very helpful for anyone that has a bar in their home, although I don't think that I dare add a woman's knee high to my list of bar tools and equipment regardless of how good a strainer it might make. As you can most likely guess, I will be giving a copy of this book to everyone on my Christmas list, including my Baptist brethren. I plan on ordering her sister's books and I hope and pray that they are as good as my new friend Donna Sue's has been. Regardless of how wicked this delightful woman might appear, she is a joy that everyone who is of drinking age can treasure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun, but standard drink recipe book, March 10, 2008

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Tiki Mon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Donna Sue's Down Home Trailer Park Bartender's Guide (Paperback)

Alabama Slammer, Whiskey Sour, etc. The recipes here are pretty standard run of the mill. The chapters are your various drink types: Tequila, Scotch, Vodka, etc. with the author writing a page or two of personal stories, mostly sexual in nature; all done in a Southern drawl read. Lot's of words containing an apostrophe: ain't, standin', dressin', durin'...you get the idea.
But what SAVES this book from anonymity are the dozen or so photos of the cast of characters mentioned in these stories about the Blue Whale Strip Club. These are truly some of the worst drag queen attempts of all time. I was howling!
However, life is enriched by people like these who 'be as they are'.