Hi Jackie!
A shooter bar is a bar within a club at which they specialize in making shooters (shot-glass-sized mixed drinks). I don't remember what was in either of the drinks I mentioned, but these bars seemed to revel in making weird combinations, some of which looked very odd as well - for example, they might mix a cream liqueur with a translucent one, without stirring, to create a kind of queer test-tuby effect (what is that thing growing in there?!), or mix different colours in layers (such as blue Curacao and creme de menthe).
Which reminds me of an interesting sidebar: When my mother and I visited the island of Curacao in the Caribbean many years ago, one of the things we did was take a tour that included a stop at the curacao distillery - where we learned that one can only get "true" curacao liqueur on the island. They just don't export what they make there because it can be made elsewhere as a local product - they don't hold a copyright on it. Why? Because it is verboten to copyright geographical names.
Dang. Bet they're wishing they'd called the good stuff "Fred" or something - anything! - other than "curacao"!
