A bar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has created a Bloody Mary cocktail topped with a whole fried chicken. The $50 (£33) drink, called the Chicken Fried Bloody Beast, is served in a jug the size of four regular Bloody Marys.
The cocktail is garnished with cheese, sausage, pickles, olives, onion, mushrooms, asparagus, spring onions, shrimp, lemon, Brussels sprouts, tomato, celery and two Baconadoes—skewers of bacon-wrapped jalapeno cheeseballs. It is intended to be shared by four people.
Ten per cent of sales from the drink go to Milwaukee's Hunger Task Force, an organisation fighting hunger in the community, according to a bar spokesman. Sobelman's Pub and Grill, run by Dave Sobelman and his wife Melanie since 1999, is known for its extravagant cocktails.
In 2012, Sobelman created the Fully-Loaded, Cheeseburger-Bloody Mary, a drink garnished with a bacon cheeseburger. He said he came up with the idea to generate buzz on the pub's Facebook page.
Other bars have also experimented with food-topped cocktails. The Score on Davie in Vancouver sells a Caesar—the Canadian take on a Bloody Mary—that includes a whole roast chicken, a burger, onion rings, chicken wings, and a brownie, costing $60 (£40) and containing 5,000 calories.
