We asked the bartenders of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which drinks they despise making for customers, and their responses were too good to ignore. So, let's find out how many of these drinks *you've* actually ordered out on the town!
"I'm a bartender in Ireland, and people ordering Guinness can be really annoying. Some want the head (the foam on top of beer) large, and others want it micro-thin."
"Mojitos — my wrist aches just thinking about them."
"Ordering a bloody mary at night when the bar is slammed will for sure piss your bartender off 10/10 times."
"An old fashioned — I work in a dive music bar, so it's always a pain to dust off the bitters and go find sugar cubes."
"People who order martinis (not knowing what they are) and making faces at the taste of gin."
"Sex on the Beach — there's always some older guy near by who makes a bad joke [when ordering it]. It's also filled with sugar, and it's not even that good of a drink."
"A Vodka Red Bull. It's not hard to make, but it's designed to get you shit-faced — so, when it's the first drink someone orders, I know I'm in for a rough night."
"I enjoy making most drinks, but I feel like Long Island iced teas are a garbage drink since you have to mix five different liquors."
"Sangria — it's not gonna be made well because I'm throwing it together when you order instead of letting it all meld for hours."
"Lemon drop shots — they aren't that good, there's barely any booze in them, and they're a pain in the butt to make. They also come along with everyone paying for their shot separately."
"A mint julep — most people who order it have never had one before, and they end up not liking it and complain to me about the taste."
"Ordering a Mai Tai at a non-Tiki bar is obnoxious. It's a bunch of ingredients that hide the booze (but add to your hangover), and I don't want to be a party to that."
"Drinks you've heard of in movies, like a White Russian. At the end of the night when I'm cleaning up, I ALWAYS find near-full glasses of these famously named drinks."
"Any kind of frozen drink — it's frustrating when someone complains it's not strong enough. Well, of course you're not gonna taste the alcohol — there's so much sugar from the mixes that go in there."
"I enjoy making non-basic drinks for people, but when our bar is busy and someone asks for an ice cream drink, they can F right off."
"A Miami Vice — it's literally two frozen drinks put into one. It's time consuming AF."
"A sour drink — egg whites get everywhere, and yolks always split whenever it's busy."
"I HATED making Irish Car Bombs when I was a bartender. They messed up my bar top when the shot got dropped in, and the thick residue mucked up my wash water too fast."
And, finally: "There's a drink that's literally called the pain in the ass. It's half-frozen piña colada and half-frozen rum runner."
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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