Growing up, the coolest parties—the one's destined for America's Funniest Home Videos greatness, or at the very least, the talk of the cafeteria on Monday morning—all had piñatas. They gave kids everywhere something to do, a way to feel mischievous and break something without actually getting in trouble for it—and a way to score extra sweets, beyond that sugar-cement-esque frosting on your friend's grocery store cake.
Eventually, though, you outgrew them, or at least acted too cool to be found on your hands and knees, ruthlessly scooping up as many Dum Dums and Tootsie Rolls as you could stuff in your pockets and fanny pack or fuzzy mini backpack.
Well, there's a new kind of piñata in town, and this one's for adults only. They're called Nipyatas, and they're filled with nips of alcohol (those tiny, mini-bar and TSA-friendly plastic bottles of booze). Nipyatas have started bubbling up on Google Trends, spiking last year around Cinco de Mayo. One company, Nipyata.com, has the market cornered, letting you first choose your piñata type—which comes loaded with assorted candies and nips (typically Fireball, vodka, whiskey, tequila and schnapps)—then choose a custom "fortune," or message, that they'll attach to each nip.
The "Stay Classy," a classic, rainbow-striped donkey, is the most popular Nipyata, but the company specializes in all kinds of designs: numbers for milestone birthdays (30! 40! And so on), a sombrero, beer bottle—even a Donald Trump one.
You can also order a customized Nipyata, choosing the number of nips you want added—up to 20—and the types of booze you'd like inside, which includes Tito's Vodka, Smirnoff, Grey Goose, Jack Daniel's, Jameson, Bacardi Rum and Jose Cuervo tequila.
Nipyatas range from $25, for an empty piñata, to $100, for one filled with candy and 20 mini bottles of liquor. Of course, if you don't mind the extra legwork, you could always head to your nearest party store, grab an empty piñata, then head to the liquor store and fill it up with whatever nips you'd like, and DIY that ish. Just make sure you don't grab any glass bottles.
Then you're also destined for America's Funniest Home Videos infamy—and, maybe, the ER.
