A Japanese bar has been ordered shut after they mistakenly served bleach to their customers instead of sake, hospitalising two customers who apparently did not notice they were downing a cleaning agent.
The Niigata prefecture izakaya served two men in their sixties sake one evening, but soon both were complaining of sore throats.
They were later admitted to hospital, and it was discovered they had been chugging an alkaline cleaning solution rather than the booze they expected. Neither man was severely injured by the tipple.
Local authorities investigated the bar and discovered their staff had for some reason poured the detergent into a labelled 1.8 litre sake bottle, and then mistaken it for actual sake and served it to the customers.
They punished the bar by ordering them to stay shut for a grand total of 3 days.
The bar has issued a boilerplate statement of contrition:
“We caused great inconvenience to our patrons. We will ensure this never happens again by properly managing our cleaning agents and instructing our staff.”
Both the bar and authorities are silent as to what all this implies about the expected quality of their beverages (or the discerning palette of their patrons).
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Putting Naruto in ramen is one thing, but putting Bleach in sake? That's like putting a One Piece swimsuit on a man. It just doesn't make sense!
At the end of the day, drinking bleach is less harmful to your health than watching Bleach
So damn true...so true. But honestly though bleach is dangerous! Lol and those guys must have been seasoned drinkers, cuz they didn't notice anything @ first lol. I mean wow.
Sore throat is temporary
Brain damage is permanent
if it doesn't make sense, then you must, acquit!? :O
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The defense rests XD
now, chewbacca is a wookie...
how can you mistake bleach for sake....the hell.
I guess it speaks volumes of the quality of drinks they serve at the bar.
one easy way to mistake bleach for sake is if the customers ordered a "hot sake" so the bleach comes hot and u maybe can drink it without notice that it is a bleach.
Apparently it's not that hard. It says a lot about how bad sake truly is.
I'm curious about this...I live in Niigata and the best sake in Japan is made here. There is more to this story, obviously.
The article clearly states that the Bleach was poured into a sake bottle for some unknown reason. You also realize that both liquids are a clear substance so it's hard to distinguish between the two unless you actually try to smell it, which in a bar environment would be hard considering the smell of cigarettes and booze would linger about making everything that much harder.
Depends on the bleach, there are various kinds of viscosity and colour, which should serve as an indication about what it is. I guess in this case, the bleach was clear? But we will never know....maybe the staff was retarded, sleepy, drunk, etc. not much details other than, they fucked up.
I have to agree about the bar setting being a possible factor in this case.
I thought they were talking about the anime "Bleach." That would have been much worse...
Anyway...mistake my ass...
So much for valuing the customer.
After drinking bleach, I am surprise they did not end up with a hollowed throat...
No, it would hollow your stomach
double entendre~
i expected bad "Bleach" comments as the prior one, so please consider yours as "good" and +0.1'ed
It was likely extremely dilute.
Not gonna lie, this made me remember this immediately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T2uvVoYXT8
Did you read the article? They had it stored in a sake bottle.
Read the article, stupid.
"...and discovered their staff had for some reason poured the detergent into a labelled 1.8 litre SAKE BOTTLE"
No shit son...why dont you read what i wrote too.... Im asking a question and you reply with a quote that sumerizes with doubt about what transpired. Key word in your quote is FOR SOME REASON, and that reason is what we are talking about.
Why dont you take an english course on literary analysis before attempting to correct others.
It's probably due to the highly refined tastes that the japs have. After all, they eat 3-year-old fermented fish and call it a delicacy.
I've actually eaten that quite a few times, and it's petty tasty! Fermented fish is actually eaten in quite a few parts of Europe and many other places.
I've seen bumper stickers in the US, reading, "Legalize Lutefisk!" (Lutefisk is a Nordic "food" made of fish soaked in lye.)
There's a good /reason/ why it's still outlawed!
ive eaten balut, and it's yummy.xD
But lutefisk is perfectly legal. You can buy it in restaurants everywhere.
It's impossible to do that, the smell alone would tell you "Hey, this isn't sake!" along with the obvious shape of the bottle.
I think that this was an attempt at murder, able to be explained away as an accident. Investigate the server and the bar extremely well police, it's going to pay off.
Would you want your server to put his nose over everything they serve and breath in and out? That wouldn't make you uncomfortable?
I'll bet one employee poured the bleach into the bottle to store it out of the way, and another employee grabbed it when the first wasn't around, so the misunderstanding was quite easily done.
Easily done, but completely unacceptable. If there was no other choice than to use a sake bottle, they should have very clearly marked it in at least a couple ways.
Guys, apparently you don't realize how much bleach smells. I can be halfway across a room and smell it when someone opens a bottle of bleach.
I'm no "Wolverine" either.
Same guy here.
Agreed.
Local authorities investigated the bar and discovered their staff had for some reason poured the detergent into a labelled 1.8 litre sake bottle, and then mistaken it for actual sake and served it to the customers.
As I said, i call bullshit on this. Again: the smell, the color, etc. etc. etc.
No, they are basically taking the bar owners word for it and you NEVER DO THAT in cases like this.
"...an attempt at murder..."
There would be practically no chance of that working, so that is extremely unlikely. The patrons are obviously going to notice that something is not right after the first swig, and most people would notice the smell even before tasting it. While bleach could technically kill someone if they drank a lot of it and didn't seek medical help, the chances of that happening would be pretty slim.
The bleach may have not even have been full strength. Since it was in a different bottle, that may have been because it was diluted with water. That could also explain why the smell was less noticeable.
No one said that murderers are always bright. I can very well see a murderer trying this and having it fail on him.... hell, come to think of it, they had someone try to kill their child in this manner 5 years ago in the state where I live.
That must be Ninja work!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1nqc7ZSjOM
while it is possible, would be exciting if it was a murder attempt. I've seen one like this case before.
Japan, tired of China quality beating them, decides that if you can't beat them... join them.
Did they pour sake' in the laundry when they washed their whites? What a waste!
How much alcohol do you have to drink before becoming too drunk to realize you're downing Clorox? Ansowe: A LOT apparently.
I expected this out of China. >_>
I don't see how the patrons' painting instruments have anything to do with their taste.
[palate, not palette.]
I worked at a host club in Tohoku as a singer where my friend was a manager. Before work, the hosts would fill up expensive bottles of liquor with cheaper alcohol. Of course there would be true bottles, but once a patron was drunk enough, they'd switch to the fake bottles.
When did Kubo Tite opened up a bar?
LOL^^
My throat also hurts from reading the latest bleach chapters. From screaming out in rage over the low quality.
"...Inconvenience..."
Dude you almost killed those people.
so...does it mean bleach tastes like sake, or sake tastes like bleach?
lol just lol
who would fail to notice drinking bleach after tasting it?
heavy drinkers who chug high% alchohol drinks like water instead of savoring it slowly, that is who
Puns about Bleach the manga/anime in 3...2...1...