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| - Another item in my Vegas bucket list crossed off: walk around with a gigantic Fat Tuesday in hand. As I'm always driving around San Diego I rarely ever drink to get drunk but as I was just walking around Mandalay/Luxor area with cousins and everyone was going to get a 48oz Fat Tuesday in honor of my cousin turning 21, there wasn't a reason why I wouldn't join them.
Fat Tuesdays are ubiquitous in Vegas and fits right in with the theme of Vegas being a city of decadence. There's 7 locations that are perfectly spaced so that you're never too far from a Fat Tuesday storefront. This is the most southern of the seven and conveniently located in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place between the Mandalay and Luxor.
A 48oz Fat Tuesday is $18, a refill of a 48oz is $14. Like other people have mentioned, an extra shot is $1. You read that right, $1. If you can take that extra shot, I suggest that you do so.
My 48oz had a combination of 191 Octane (OJ and Everclear) and Pina Colada (Pineapple, Coconut, Rum and Vanilla Ice Milk) with an extra shot. I was warned that Fat Tuesdays will slowly creep up on you so try not to drink all in one shot. Had a little brain freeze in the beginning but I slowly sipped mine. The taste of the drink tasted like a frozen blended drink, alcohol barely noticeable but nothing too spectacular worth mentioning. Took me about an hour and a half to finish everything, and I was struggling to finish mine when I was starting to reach the bulb. Even with a good fulfilling sushi dinner about an hour into sipping the drink I could just feel the effects of the alcohol creeping in on me. I was still able to have a conversation with people as well as my No1DP on FB, but at that point I had to conscientiously think about what I wrote that it made sense and I kept on making way too many typos.
Even chugging water before sleeping I woke up to a rather bad hangover that took me several hours to rest and Advil to recover from. It reminded me that the days of a quick recovery from a night of drinking were no longer possible. Given the choice to do this again I'll probably just stick to the smaller sizes. If people in my party are drinking this I'll happily join them, but I wouldn't go out of my way to drink one myself.
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