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).
I don’t see how the patrons’ painting instruments have anything to do with their taste.
[palate, not palette.]
I expected this out of China. >_>
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 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.