Originally Posted by ShellyCrash

I agree w/ what others have said, you just need a good blender.

Someone got us some smoothie / margarita maker for xmas a few years back. It didn't blend as well as our blender, but it looked kinda cool and had larger capacity w/ a tap on the bottom so for parties we would just set it up on the counter, make a big batch and people could despense at will. It was cool for a while but it broke pretty quick, I'm thinking maybe around 10 parties or less.