I can't claim credit for this idea, I just collaborated on its production. I would like to consider it an experiment in consumable propaganda.
My boyfriend has been learning to mix cocktails, and he sent me this AI generated image and said that he wanted to create a 'Europatini'. Obviously I loved this idea, but I didn't have any martini glasses nor did I know where I could acquire starfruit in Sheffield in January. Blue raspberry vodka is always available in the Hillsoborough Barracks Morrisons store - so, that was easy to acquire, although it tastes absolutely disgusting (especiallly without a mixer), so we are going to try blue Caraçao next time - but it's alright as a long drink with lemonade, and looking especially piratey in my Beavertown skull pint glass with some lemons (don't want the pirates to get Scurvy!).
After some research, I found an impressive online supplier of exotic fruit - and ordered three star fruit, which arrived a few days later, still green and in an absurd amount of packaging and a marketing card with a competition to win a voucher by posting a photo with the fruit on Instagram - iinstructing us to "be creative" - challenge accepted. Then, we visited the local charity shops in Hillsborough and found two martini glasses in the first one we visited. After a few days the star fruit had turned a beautiful bright yellow, so Johann mixed the drinks.
He wanted to take a photo of us cheers-ing the glasses, so I painted my nails blue for the photo (usually I can't be bothered)..
I also got my EU wristbands out for us to wear for the photo.
I also took a few photographs of the drinks on a plain background...
And messed around with some spotlights to create interesting shadows.
I think this idea could be popular for drinks receptions at the European Parliament liaison offices and I might suggest it to them next time I visit.
There was quite a lot of star fruit left over, so I bought some blueberries from Lidl to make a Europa fuit salad - of a "frEUt salad" if you want to be silly.
None of my plates match and I don't have a plain white one, but luckily this blue patterned one seemed to work well.
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