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Subject: Re: Home Bar + Fruit Flies
From: Mister2
Posted: Wed Sep 27. 2006, 03:37 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Home Bar + Fruit Flies"  by beans  (Wed Sep 27. 2006, 02:16 UTC)
> > If I buy a drink, I expect the liquor to have been properly and 
> > sanitarily stored.  When I see bar flies coming out of pour spouts, 
> > 
> > that tells me I'm in a subpar environment.
> 
> What about outdoor tiki bars?  Trust me, they do manage to find a way 
> in the bottle since they are not capped up in between each and every 
> drink made.  Does that make that bar "subpar" ?  (see what I mean? 
> ;0)

I can't say I've ever been a patron at one.
 
> >  If the bar is filtering 
> > them out, well, at least I don't have to see them, but is it really 
> > 
> > any better?  Now they're not only allowing contaminated bottles to be 
> > 
> > poured, they're covering their tracks and selling it to me anyway.  
> > 
> > That's what I have a problem with.
> 
> Well, then you have millions of problems with millions of bars.  
> Happens every day just like marrying liquor, touching the fruit, 
> placing containers in the consumable ice well, touching ice, letting 
> the handle of the ice scoop touch the ice, bartenders smoking behind 
> the bar, etc.

Honestly, it just hits a barrier in my mind.  I'd rather see a bartender 
smoking behind the bar than know there was a fly in the bottle - hell, one of 
my favorite bartenders in Houston smokes during every single shift, while he's 
serving.  Proper?  Hell no.  But it doesn't cross that mental line that flies 
do.

> --------------------------
> "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ...
> well, I have others."  -Groucho Marx


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