Toddler served alcohol at Applebee's

[Flarecobra]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8443478/Applebees-serves-toddler-margarita-instead-of-apple-juice.html

When I first saw this story on the news, I wondered "How the fuck could they have screwed THAT up?" But looking into it some more, and finding the above link, it helped explain what happoned.

Which begs the question: why the hell do you keep an alcoholic beverage and apple juice in identical bottles? If you ask me, that should be a big red flag for this EXACT situation. Especally since it has happoned before, back in 2007.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

That kid will be the coolest dude on the playground

[phil_]

That incident came just a year after Seth Pereles, a five-year-old from New York City, was given a Long Island iced tea when he too ordered an apple juice at a local Applebee's. Bullshit. There's no way a server would, when asked for apple juice, pour five different liquors in a glass and then go to the soda fountain for a shot of Coke. Add on the "lol stupid Americans and their teen pregnancies" thing and the whole article smells like baseless shock journalism to generate hits.

[Flarecobra]

I don't think it's bullshit. (http://www.10news.com/news/5954829/detail.html)

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Alcohol gives off a unique smell. I find it hard to believe they couldn't tell the bottles apart.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Surely you can tell the diffference between a long island and apple juice by looking at it? Surely the mother would be like "that isn't apple juice"

[Flarecobra]

I'm willing to bet that in the Margartia incidents, they just grabbed the bottle without even thinking. And if you've been in a kitchen of a restarunt, your sense of smell gets a wide verity of scents all at once, some of which are quite strong.

And keep in mind, it's in a sippy cup. Which is opeque. And has a lid on it.

[phil_]

Wait a sec.

Hold on.

This is great.

Check this out: go to Applebee's, and order apple juice. Cheapest bar-drinking ever.

Edit: Maybe wear overalls or light-up sneakers.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Pereles did not realize her son was a concoction of white rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, coke and sweet-and-sour mix until it was too late.

I didn't realize you could have kids made of alcohol either.

Strange. Could have sworn the recipe was gin, vodka, scotch, triple sec, cola, and sour.

[Flarecobra]

Looking at Wiki, there's like 8 different varations of a Long Island Iced Tea.