I was gonna say lemon drops. They're palatable enough to almost everyone.

Spiced vodka. I dunno, it just seems like the time of year.

But the really important part is that you give the shot some kind of punning moustache-themed name.

Just call it the Liptickler.

box: I'm calling them "Mustache Rides". I'm going to tape paper mustaches to the rims of plastic shot glasses: you take the shot no-hands and we'll snap a Polaroid of you with the shot in your mouth and the mustache under your nose! Awesome, right?

"Mustache Rides" at a fundraiser for children? Might that be a little inappropriate?

The drink/mustache combination made me think of the Stranger (Sam Elliot) in the Big Lebowski. But he ordered a sarsaparilla instead of booze--but how about root beer schnapps?

Not Jaeger! Many people don't like it, and many people get absolutely wasted on it.

I'd go with a vodka. Go with a neutral for mass appeal, I say.

And I would worry about the kids and the name of the cocktail. Either they'll be old enough to get it and snicker, or they won't and they'll think it's a funny name for a grown-up drink that involves a fake mustache.

Are there going to be kids there at all? It looks like it's being held at a bar. And we are talking shots of booze here...what's worse for kids, booze or sex jokes? A: Neither, both are appropriate.

No, there won't be any kids anywhere near the bar and Adult Themes are totally acceptable. We're a completely separate entity from Off the Street Club, so we've pretty much got carte blanche to do off-color stuff during our fundraising. It's kind of designed that way.

...I mean "Mustaches for Kids" is pretty skanky right off the bat, right?

I dunno, I think "Mustache Rides" takes it to a whole new level, and not in a good way. Just my opinion.

/old lady

Since absinthe is legal now, it might have some level of cache going for it.

But I would plop my cash on the barrelhead for some sort of good estate-grown tequila.

Ex-bartender here, agreeing with Specklet that Jaeger, while one of my personal favorites, is too hard core for most people, both in terms of taste and what it does to them. Like danf, I was originally going to suggest Tequila, but think it suffers from the same drawbacks as Jaeger.

If you've got to stick with one liquor, I'd agree lemon drops are your best choice. Here's a way to gussy them up. Make the lemon drop the regular way by chilling the vodka till it's ice cold. Arrange your sliced lemons on a plate, and drizzle Grand Marnier on them, and then sprinkle your powdered sugar on top. This is how we used to make lemon drops and, in my opinion, they're much better than the way I see them made here in NY.

Fundraisers don't have to be appropriate. The whole art of fundraising is getting people to have a good time, get all wound up and in a silly mood so they'll be looser with the checkbook (and note that the organization puts on a good do, so maybe they're good at mission delivery, too). They can be quite shocking sometimes -- at the last big do for my staid museum, we had showgirls doing the can-can in fishnets. It went with the theme...just barely.

The 'moustache ride' concept is great.

Lemon drops don't come in a bottle, though, do they? That's the limiting factor here.

I would totally go for Mustache Rides, as a name for a shot at a fundraiser in a corner bar, and although I think everyone should just shoot bourbon, I think you're best with something a little sweet and a lot neutral, like flavored vodka. I thought lemon drops were a mixed shot?

Lemon drops don't come in a bottle, though, do they?

They're just super chilled vodka (the better the vodka, the better the shot) with a slice of lemon to suck on after you do the shot.

oh for pete's sake, I agree with Miko. We had a "moustache ride" theme party at the Denver Cruise recently, and nobody got uptight about it. Same deal as eamon's fundraiser: no children were present or harmed.

honestly, I'd rather explain that theme to our four-year-old niece than why her fifteen-year-old brother got to go to a "pimps and hos" themed halloween party (SIL has a very different idea of what's appropriate for her kids than we do... sigh).

And yes, Lemon Drops are just the ticket. Even I can handle one or two, and I don't care for shots.

For the love of god, don't do schnapps or Jaeger.

I've always seen lemon drops as a cocktail with lemon juice and sugar. Some people will add Grand Marnier or Galiano or sour mix, but in my experience, it's not just a shot and a slice of lemon.

Interesting, Specklet -- I had no idea. I've seen what you describe served in martini glasses and normally all kinds of overpriced, but I always think of a lemon drop shot as vodka, cold, with a slice of lemon. But that might well not be what other folks were thinking of when they suggested lemon drops.

A mustache ride is already a drink: butterscotch schnapps, grain alcohol and chocolate milk.

The tastiest shot in the world would be a chocolate cake shot. But that would involve more than one type of liquor...you'd need frangelico and vanilla vodka (and lemon wedges with sugar for after). I would say the easiest shot going down would be a lemon drop, maybe made with everclear and lemonade instead of straight up lemon vodka. Also, there are some shots you can buy at the liquor store pre-mixed, you just have to look around.

Then again, maybe you do want to serve something hard core. Pick Jack Daniels and everyone will feel like a tough guy doing it, it goes along with your mustaches, and people aren't likely to go too overboard with it. If you're worried about that, tell people they can have one per 50lbs body weight (with a scale next to it to prove it), and if they won't prove it, they can have 2. This is how we got around people going too apeshit crazy on a booze-related fundraiser in college - I was the genius who thought of it. We were worried that some girls who weighed 90 lbs soaking wet would decide to drink a half bottle "for chariteeeeee...." Even a lot of the dudes wouldn't hop on a scale to dis/prove their weight. And who says you don't learn anything in a sorority?

We always did lemon drops like tequila shots, but with sugar, vodka and lemon instead of salt, tequila and lime.

If you're going to charge fund raiser type shot prices, pour the good stuff - DOM B & B.

Here's a link to an Illinois distillery.

I love me some B&B (sometimes I think it's what gets me through the winter), but if I did shots of it, I'd be dancing on the tables, wearing a lampshade on my head, in no time. Where does that come from anyway, the wearing of lampshades when one is drunk? And how come modern day drunks don't do that any more?

Lassie, it was just this one guy... back in 1939. Historians know him as "Lampshade Zero". But his legend lives on.