--- title: Offensive Bartending book Pulled in New Hampshire description: A book is stirring controversy in New Hampshire for its offensive language canonical: https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-03T17:42:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:00.627Z og:title: This Offensive Bartending Book Is Causing a Stir In New Hampshire og:description: The book is a guide in its 10th edition og:url: https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Offensive Bartending Book Is Causing a Stir In New Hampshire twitter:description: The book is a guide in its 10th edition twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Offensive Bartending Book Is Causing a Stir in New Hampshire ## Video: Should I Drink Red Wine? [Watch (HLS stream): Should I Drink Red Wine?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JLVLyuEq.m3u8) (1:35)  _Published 2015-03-12. Cheers to your health! All five of our experts give red wine a purple-stained smile._ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 3, 2015 5:42 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 3, 2015 5:42 PM UTC If you’re planning on ordering up a “stripper mom” at a New Hampshire liquor store, then think again. A bartender’s guide which includes explicit drink names has been pulled from use in New Hampshire’s state-run liquor stores on account of its sexist and offensive language. Governor Maggie Hassan had the Liquor Commission recall the 500 copies of ‘The Bartender’s Black Book Tenth Edition’ it originally purchased, after retail workers complained. “In retrospect, we could have done a more thorough job vetting the guide,” Liquor Commission spokesman E.J. Powers said in a statement. Private companies cannot operate liquor stores in the Granite state. The book gives recipes for drinks such as “busted rubber,” “gang banger,” “stripper mom,” “panty dropper” and “screw me sideways.” A user on book rating website [Goodreads.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/936973.The%5FBartender%5Fs%5FBlack%5FBook) wrote in a review that the book is “cheap” but “perfect for having behind the bar in an urban-hipster scene given that half the drinks have ‘clever’ names.” “This book was written years ago, it’s updated every two years,” a spokesman for the book said. “There are some sexually driven names, that’s the names of those drinks, you know.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/"},"headline":"This Offensive Bartending Book Is Causing a Stir in New Hampshire","datePublished":"2015-09-03T17:42:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:00.627Z","description":"Don't try to order a \"panty dropper\" in Concord","url":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/","keywords":["Newsfeed","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/","name":"This Offensive Bartending Book Is Causing a Stir in New Hampshire"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Should I Drink Red Wine?","description":"Cheers to your health! All five of our experts give red wine a purple-stained smile.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/JLVLyuEq/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-12T14:14:34.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JLVLyuEq.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/","duration":"PT1M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4021653/sexist-bartending-book/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```