Originally, this fictional cocktail is an invention of Zaphod Beeblebrox (in Douglas Adams’“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) based on Janx Spirit. It is described as “the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging – expensive and bad for the head” and states that the effect of one “is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick”. A toned-down recipe for earthlings follows:

• 1 oz Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey
• 1 oz peach schnapps
• 4 – 6 oz orange juice
• 1 splash Blue Curacao liqueur

Mix as you see fit. 42.

The original recipe:

“Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol’ Janx Spirit. Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V. Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).. Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it (in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia).”

“Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones. Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian suns deep into the heart of the drink. Sprinkle Zamphour. Add an olive. Drink…but very careully.”