I sniff my beverages as well. I really thought. I was the only person that did. I’m glad to hear. I have company in that area. I don’t eye,swirl and play with them. I’m wondering if I should start. When you consider what’s happened. It’s not an odd thing to do at all. It is actually a good idea.

I sometimes not only sniff beverages (it’s odd, so?) but I eye them and swirl them and play with them before consuming them.

It’s odd. I know.

ok a couple of things….
1) this was an accident, no need for anyone to get fired
2) glasses were stored upside down, and once the shots were poured they were consumed rather quickly, they sat less than 30 seconds
3) no tapes of the incident, besides it was dark inside
4) dirty glasses are not washed at the bar here, they are washed in the back and they use industrial washing equipment, not a soapy sink, and trust me the glasses do not sit for more than a few minutes before they are brought back out

also it was a freak occurrence…how many times do you get a drink and really inspect what you’ve gotten?

from now on i’ll be much more careful

One of the dishwasher machine vs sink arguements that many fail to understand is that a sink, over hours, gets dirty. In a perfect world, the bartender would empty and refill a dirty sink and put fresh new tabs of detergent and santitizer into them.

Often, that doesn’t happen.

What does happen is after 7 hours of working in a busy bar, the sinks are filthy from washing 500 pint glasses, and the bartenders can’t be bothered to stop and clean them.

When it was Dipper’s I would clean the sinks about once a night.

ok a couple of things….
1) this was an accident, no need for anyone to get fired
2) glasses were stored upside down, and once the shots were poured they were consumed rather quickly, they sat less than 30 seconds
3) no tapes of the incident, besides it was dark inside
4) dirty glasses are not washed at the bar here, they are washed in the back and they use industrial washing equipment, not a soapy sink, and trust me the glasses do not sit for more than a few minutes before they are brought back out

also it was a freak occurrence…how many times do you get a drink and really inspect what you’ve gotten?

from now on i’ll be much more careful

P, it would be good for the community to know the bar. I know nobody likes a rat but this is pretty serious. I do not want to go to a bar and drop back a good ole irsh car bomb and fine something lodged in my throat. I’ll tell you what i know and that is bars have glasses upside down behind the bar so i doubt it was in there when the drink was poured, and i am sure if it was in the glass a bartender would have seen it. SOunds like the drinks were made and a bartender took off a cap and instead of it flying behind the bar it flew forward and into the guys made drink or maybe the guy had an ex gal pal there and the drink was purposely altered and if that is the case the bar needs to review there tapes because that sounds like attempted murder to me. I still would want to know the name of the bar, in case i am wrong.

P, it would be good for the community to know the bar. I know nobody likes a rat but this is pretty serious. I do not want to go to a bar and drop back a good ole irsh car bomb and fine something lodged in my throat. I’ll tell you what i know and that is bars have glasses upside down behind the bar so i doubt it was in there when the drink was poured, and i am sure if it was in the glass a bartender would have seen it. SOunds like the drinks were made and a bartender took off a cap and instead of it flying behind the bar it flew forward and into the guys made drink or maybe the guy had an ex gal pal there and the drink was purposely altered and if that is the case the bar needs to review there tapes because that sounds like attempted murder to me. I still would want to know the name of the bar, in case i am wrong.

PS – the management at the “Mile Square Bar & Grill” wasn’t too happy with the phrase “Mile Square” as a reference to Hoboken, because “some of their regulars” were asking about this story.

The bar with the bottle cap gag-reflex action was *not* the Mile Square Bar & Grill.

I suppose in the future I should be careful to use the very common phrase “Mile Square” (which has been around long before the bar) – in any story related to a bar.

I still think someday they are going to have to get rid of the sink washing technique that 90% of the bars do it town.

Having a sink filled with soapy water is disgusting and filthy by the 1st hour, yet bartenders “wash” pint glasses in this soupy mess and pour you a beer or shot.

Things like bottle caps or food or roaches can easily fall into the sinks and get mixed in with the whole process.

Plus with H1N1 hysteria breaking out, its only a matter of time until bars will be forced to serve everyone with plastic cups unless they have a real dishwasher to clean their glassware.

And it’s not impossible. I worked at Mikie Squared and we used an industrial dishwasher to wash all our glassware.