The Horror Movie Night Cookbook
By Cindi Sutter - Excerpted from The Horror Movie Night Cookbook by Richard S. Sargent. Copyright © 2023 Ulysses Press. Reprinted with permission from Ulysses Press. New York, NY. All rights reserved.
CONTAGION (2011)
Did we not just live through this movie? I mean, damn. How accurate was this? At least Beth had one last night of fun before she ended up…well, you know.
The entire film centers around a pandemic, much as the early 2020s have. Let’s make the best of it and give it a signature cocktail that we can raise to our fallen brothers and sisters.
KILL LEVEL: Easy | BODY COUNT: 1 drink | PREP TIME: 5 minutes
THE PANDEMIC
Ingredients
3 ounces banana liqueur
1 ounce scotch
1 ounce sherry
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon ginger syrup (from the pickled ginger jar)
Dash of angostura bitters
Pickled ginger slices, for garnish
Instructions
1. Mix all the liquids together in a cocktail shaker. Serve over ice. Garnish with a few slices of pickled ginger.
2. Try to pretend the pandemic didn’t happen.
3. Never watch Contagion again.
Drinking Game: Take a drink every time you experience déjà vu from basically living this movie.