I don’t have a lot of time, but think I need to share this with the world. Today.

It’s a new drink that could really change things for you. The idea for this cocktail came to me as not so much as a brand new recipe, but as more of a “happy hour hack”.

A friend and I have recently started doing something we like to call Maragrita Wednesdays. The event is linked to the delightful Wing Wednesday phenomenon, where respectable establishments discount their chicken wings, often to ridiculous prices. We’ve found a chain that does 25 cent wings each Wednesday, much to our delight. This place is a Mexican joint, so obviously they do margaritas. And when you and your best friend are eating 25-cent wings, you obviously do margaritas too.

Last time we celebrated Margarita Wednesday, we had settled in for the long haul, setting up shop at a table and building up an impressive pie of chicken bones. But we couldn’t hang around all day and decided that, after a few hours, we best move on.

By that time it was happy hour at the next stop on our tequila tour, during which basics were just $5. We wanted to keep up with our Margarita Wednesday ethos, but the prices were a wee bit too high to justify. We were after a cocktail that packed the same punch of a margarita, but was kinder on the wallet.

So the time came to improvise.

This drink could have many names such as Sly Margarita, Thifty Margie, Margs for Thinkers, or a Cheeky Margot Robbie, but when we told other friends about our creation, it was dubbed the Bogan Margarita.

We’ve since given it a nickname, in true Australian style, shortening it to Borgan Marg, a name that could be trademarked but we feel it is something that belongs to the people. Everyone should be able to get one of these into their gobs. So we’re not sitting on this secret. We’re letting it out.

Here’s how you can get your hands on one.

You ask for the house tequila, with something lemony as a mixer. I can say from personal experience to avoid lemonade if possible, instead opting for lemon squash. It takes better but you also want it to be a nice looks-lemony-but-we-all-know-that-colour-is-the-colour-of-chemicals yellow for atheistic reasons. Make sure you get a bit of a ice in that one (however, given it’s a basic spirit at happy hour, you’re probably going to end up with plenty of ice-cold filler).

Then, either ask the bartender for a salt shaker or snag one from a nearby table and shake yourself a good dusting of salt into the glass.

Give it a pretentious swirl and Bob’s your aunty, you’ve got yourself a fine imitation margarita which isn’t all that different to the real McCoy.

Congratulations, you’ve seen the light.

Here’s the recipe in case you want to make this for yourself at home:

Ingredients:

• Cheap tequila
• Solo/lemon squash/pub squash
• Ice
• Table salt

Pour a nip (the volume of which is entirely up to you and your needs at that particular time) of tequila into a glass. Next, add a few cubes of ice. Top up the glass with some pub squash. Vigorously shake salt into the glass before swirling the ice around – use your finger if you must.

Note, you COULD dust the rim with salt and garnish with a lemon wedge if you were feeling a little fancy, but I think we all know this is not really the beverage for you if you’re feeling a little fancy.