Ice in drinks
While looking at a pub website (see last rant), I noticed an advert for Magner's Ice Cold Irish Cider. In said advert, the instructions were given on how to make the cider ice cold. Now I know that I am occasionally naive, but I would have thought that "keeping the cider in the fridge" woudl be a very good method of cooling down the drink. Oh no, the instructiosn were as follows:
Now I may be missing something here, but several points come to mind:
A rip off in many different ways!
Why do pubs insist on putting ice in drinks, especially when they have come from the fridge or chiller cabinet. The only reason can be that they want the drinks to look larger than they would without the ice.
Pubs also insist on adding ice to post-mix drinks. If these are warm then there is a problem with the post-mix system, but there's an even bigger rip-off. At least with a bottle you buy the whole thing and you only get conned in that you think you are getting more than you are. With post-mix, if you have more ice, you get less drink completely.
If I wanted to pay for water, I'd ask for it. I asked for a cider/coke/fruit juice/beer (delete as applicable).
- half fill a glass with ice;
- pour on the entire bottle of cider;
- drink;
Now I may be missing something here, but several points come to mind:
- you are paying for ice at the same rate as cider
- you are in effect watering down your cider;
- if you didn't have the ice, then the bottle of cider would be nowhere near a full pint;
A rip off in many different ways!
Why do pubs insist on putting ice in drinks, especially when they have come from the fridge or chiller cabinet. The only reason can be that they want the drinks to look larger than they would without the ice.
Pubs also insist on adding ice to post-mix drinks. If these are warm then there is a problem with the post-mix system, but there's an even bigger rip-off. At least with a bottle you buy the whole thing and you only get conned in that you think you are getting more than you are. With post-mix, if you have more ice, you get less drink completely.
If I wanted to pay for water, I'd ask for it. I asked for a cider/coke/fruit juice/beer (delete as applicable).
posted by Jonathan | Monday, June 05, 2006
1 Comments:
(Taking deep breath . . ) The reason for pubs putting ice in your drinks lies in the fact that the ice is made by an ice-making machine, which produces more ice if it gets low. So you can imagine that most evenings the spotty, little bar assistants will draw about 1/4 out of the ice maker usually using their unwashed hands as shovels. The ice maker will refill itself until the weekend, when we get down to the lower levels of cubes, which by now have been in the ice maker for a week. Coated in a gazillion bacteria they now proceed to form a pond-like scum on top of your drink and will cause you to have the shits, thus dehydrating you so you'll buy more drinks! How do I know this?? Been there - done this! (Did I say too much??) ESU
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