Jack Daniels
A common misconception is that Jack Daniels No. 7 is a Tennessee sipping whiskey. In reality it's a train whose only stops are Nashville, jail, and Hell. In that order.
Just The Facts
- Jack Daniels' signature whiskey is the Old No. 7 brand. There were not 6 previous incarnations, and the secret of the 7's real meaning died with the original Mr. Jack Daniels.
- Jack was one of the few distilleries to survive prohibition.
- Moore County, Tennessee, where Jack is distilled, is still a dry county. However, the distillery is exempt from the law and sells Gentlemen Jack in its gift shop.
- Jack Daniels distillery was founded in 1866, The first batches were sold in large, ceramic jugs with big 'X's printed on the side.
- If anyone has ever told you that you smell like Jack Daniels, it's time to seriously reevaluate your life.
How Jack Daniels No. 7 Whiskey Is Different From The Stuff Your Grandpa Makes In His Basement: A Practical Guide
The Nashville/Jail/Hell Express. The engineer looks like the bad guy from "Raising Arizona"
Jack features premium yeast, cave drawn water, and top quality corn. It does not feature the yeast from a do-it-yourself bread kit, 6 gallons of tub water, and several cans of Del Monte cream corn.
Jack's iconic square bottle never originally held mayonnaise.
Jack will only render you blind if you break the bottle and jab it into your face.
Jack is distilled to a consistent 40 percent alcohol, whereas grandpa's home blend could unclog a stopped up sink, which we have to admit, is a point for grandpa.
Jack Daniels ceased production during prohibition. Your grandfather, meanwhile, owns an invoice signed by Al Capone.
A glass of Jack no. 7 makes listening to a Hank Williams record more authentic. A glass of grandpa's homemade 'shine makes the experience MUCH more authentic.
Both Jack and Grandpa will leave a gaping hole in your memory which will no doubt hide one of the more eventful nights of your life.
Cookin' With Jack
The Jack Daniels website includes a curious section that features recipes, in an apparent attempt to kill people by including their oak-soaked gasoline in every facet of every meal. However, to the great dismay of boozehounds and aspiring Topic page writers everywhere, many of the recipes featured don't actually include Jack Daniels as an ingredient. If nothing else, we here at Cracked take pride in our ability to correct other people, so we will adjust one of the recipes off the Jack Daniels site to include the Old No. 7. To save time, we will type the recipe up in real time as we prepare it.
APPLE CRISP COFFEE CAKE (CRACKED REVISION)
- Drink a shot of Jack. Chop one cup of pecans. Core, peel, and dice 2 Granny Smith or Golden Delicious apples. Soak in 1/4 cup of Jack to prevent browning.
- Drink a shot of Jack. Preheat oven. In a 9 inch baking pan, combine pecans with 3/4 cup flower, 3/4 cup colored sugar, butter, one stick of cimanon, and 1-4 tablespoons of salt. Combine with fork.
- Drink Jack shot. preheat oven, cake is 2 cups, sugar, liqid butter 1 cup, 1 thing sour cream, 3 eggs beaten whole, vanilla, and apples jack
- Jack shott mix and pour caje in pan. jack sho.t cook pan in box for owww use mits and cook pan in box. top with jack drink jack
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- Wake up several hours later to the sound of the smoke alarm. Put out fire in oven with fire extinguisher. Locate aspirin.
Needs more whiskey...
The Tennessee Squire Association
The Tennessee Squire Association (TSA) is a group of people from the 16th state who love 80's arena rock staple Billy Squier.
Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
Okay, we totally made that up, although I'm sure many members of the TSA have an appreciation for the crowd-pleasin' sounds of Mr. Squier. Especially since they drink a lot. In fact, that's the common denominator to become a member: drink obscene levels of Jack Daniels hooch. Many groups like the Elks, Shriners, and Junior Achievement, do a lot of community service to distract the public from their real reason for existing, which is to assemble in a large room and drink heavily. The TSA cuts out the crap, and goes directly to the inebriation part of the program. That's not to say the Squires don't do a lot of community service, it's just that theirs is almost always court-appointed.
Pictured: Former Black Sheep guitarist and Tennessee Squire Slash getting run over by a car he was driving
As a member of the TSA, you are entitled to some benefits... no, we need to word that better... as a member of the TSA, the club inundates you with garbage. Primary among the crap is a deed to a mysterious plot of land located somewhere within the Jack Daniels compound. Information on the plot is fleeting, so we have to make wild assumptions about its true nature:
The secret ingredient in Jack Daniels Single Barrel Whiskey
Here is a small gallery of other, actual junk Tennessee Squires have received over the years as "benefits" of being members of a club run by drunks:
A miniature sculpture made from poop
A collection of godawful music from singing legend Winifred Smith
Rocks
28 black-eyed peas plus cooking instructions. I Gotta Feeling this gift is really stupid.
A lump of crap in a dirty, cut sock. Draw your own conclusions about the letter.
I love JD, mainly coz I can get it cheap, but I still love it.
ReplyIf you're that fucked up after 4 shots, you need a better liver.
ReplyOr you're a lightweight. Or a girl.
Epic Meal Time...
Replythat's all I could think of the entire time
it is their legacy
(well, that and bacon...)
aahahahahaah ok I will try that recipe. ahem!!! the pan always looks the same when I drink anyway. mine as well...aahahahha
ReplyThat 'lump of crap' in the last image looks a lot like a horse chestnut to me.
Replylol the first thing i thought was that it was heroin. i have no idea why...
I was hoping he would cook with "flower". It may have just been a typo though.
His name is Jack Daniel, not Daniels. It's Jack Daniel's whiskey.
ReplyGood catch.
Good Man! you prove that most Jack Drinkers are smarter than the idiots who put it down!
A distillery in a dry county? Isn't that like having a drug dealer setup shop outside a rehab clinic?
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesWhich sounds like ever Hollywood rehab clinic Lindsay Lohan goes to.
Ya, it's great for business
Dry counties are common enough in the South. This one went dry after the distillery was set up.
Having a distillery outside a rehab clinic would be more like having a drug dealer outside one...well, really, it would be the same thing, just one could get thrown in jail.
""If you can't drink Jack Daniels, there's something wrong with you".
ReplyYes! For once, my Apple Crisp Coffee Cake looks like it did in the picture!
ReplyYou know, they put a fight in every bottle . . .
ReplyAnd it smells like mommy's kisses.
JD is our "family" drink, if you can't handle your JD straight, you can't be in the family (this goes for man or woman). My Dad is a Tennessee Squire, and yes, they send him crap (usually in the form of a calendar). I mean, it would be cool if they could actually send a 5th or something, but nooo... Still, I love the stuff.
ReplyLove that recipe *ick*
ReplyHis name was Jack Daniel, not Jack Daniels. It is Jack Daniel's whiskey.
Reply"John when you know him as long as I've had." -Al Pacino
as long as I've had
I have had
have had
Motel Hell (Movie) is where that picture of people buried up to their heads is. FTW. They used them to make sausage if i recall...
ReplyIt takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Ritter's fritters!
3/4 of a cup of "flower"? what, like daisies?
ReplyYou guys forgot to mention Ke$sha.
ReplyYou forgot the US Army contingent of Jack drinkers. Overseas in Korea, the officers are allowed 2L per month of their choice of liquor. The majority of people choose jack.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesI myself am a Biker. I also have an IQ over einstein's as well as several patents pending which I am selling to Black and Decker for an currently undisclosed amount of money. I have never spent more than one week in jail at a time, and I've been able to afford enough lawyers that I have no criminal record.
So.
Your chart.
It's inaccurate.
So.
Your credantials.
They're innaccurate.
I invented the internet.
I love how the internet allows anyone to be anything.
"I have never spent more than one week in jail at a time, and I've been able to afford enough lawyers that I have no criminal record."
so you admit, then, that you've been in jail and and that it's only because you paid some soulless parasites that you were able to avoid taking responsibility for your illegal actions.
credentials*
T'was bothering me, sorry.
This is great.
ReplyMakers Mark is the best.
ReplyMakers Mark Is for sissies who can't handle Jack!
There is no "s" in Jack Daniel's name. The entire article revolves around a name that the author spells wrong about forty times. Welcome to Writing for Internet 101.
ReplyWhat do you mean there's no "s"? It's right there on the bottle, "Jack Daniel's". with an "apostrophe-s"
@NikaChica2006 - I think his point was the author continually neglected to use the apostrophe, and when it was used, it was used wrongly (Jack Daniels'). The man's name was Jack Daniel.