I read on a website (can’t remember for the life of me how I found it) ... the site’s still there, in fact. What it says, is this:
“It is traditionally served in a large container (anything from a 3 litre jug to a kitchen bin ), and passed round from person to person – in the case of the kitchen bin lengths of syphon tubing may be used as straws to overcome the problems of passing a 20kilo hamster around the room, and the associated difficulties of not spilling copious amounts of crushed ice when sipping delicately at the rim.”
“Fill a suitable container with crushed ice from your friendly neighbourhood trade ice supplier. An alternative to this source is in fact the ONLY useful function of MacDonalds – at a push and with a couple of carrier bags, you will probably manage to blag a load of ice from them – tell them you’re having a charity party and have run out. You will then have to find your own way of crushing it. We have found the best way to be by half filling a carrier bag, twisting the neck to confine the ice, wrapping it in a towel (still holding the bag neck), and hitting the floor repeatedly with it ( or even placing it on the floor and smashing it repeatedly with a sturdy frying pan ).
Anyway, to this add equal numbers of bottles of Malibu and Blue Curacao plus an extra Blue Curacao for every 2 or 3 Malibu – this also depends on the colour and orange juice content. For each bottle of Blue Curacao, you will probably need about 3 litres of orange juice and half a litre of blackcurrant.
Stir,
Get Hamstered. You will not get drunk, but after a while you may discover that your lower legs don’t feel quite normal. The result of a room of people sharing a suitably sized hamster seems to be a general raising of the level of humour and well-being in a way unique to the PTSH.
The next morning, the only after effects seem to be symptoms of a hangover, restricted to the knees; don’t ask me why, I just invented the thing.”
It was invented by someone calling himself the “Iron Chicken”, and the website site address is:
http://www.aerial.org/cgi-bin/frames?INDIRECT&BODY=/general/ptsh.html
For some disturbing reason, this thing has stuck in my imagination, and I feel the need to try it some day! (The website also mentions an “Emergency Purple Tropical Space Hamster”, for when bottlefuls of mixers may be impractical:
“Fill a glass with crushed ice and add;
1 measure Blue Curacao, 1 measure Malibu, 1 measure Industrial Strength Blackcurrant cordial, and top up with orange juice – stir. DO NOT use a blender, as the colour gets really odd.”)
The site makes the choice of cordial quite clear: “Industrial Strength Blackcurrant cordial is vital – it may not taste good on its own, but it is an extremely important ingredient in the PTSH. Ribena / C-Vit and other such drinks just don’t work, perhaps because they taste a bit like blackcurrants, unlike the stuff you usually get behind bars”.
