The case of the racist blackcurrant drink

Have to say I find this really bizarre. I’ve ordered hundreds of glasses of wine in my brief few years drinking it. I’ve also been around people who drink it ordering it possibly thousands of times. Not once have we been mistakenly served blackcurrant cordial (from a display bottle or otherwise). Nor have I ever heard of this happening to anyone on a night out.

As 1641 has said display bottles would be out of reach because they’re just for that; display. The idea that once it was poured the mistake would not have been noticed by staff is also hard to believe. I don’t know what happened here but I am skeptical of the hotel's version of events.

I have ordered chicken and been served fish. I have been served Heineken instead of Guinness - the list goes on.

Were these places saying I was fish like? Or that I resembled an Irish person more do than a Dutch person? Or perhaps **** just happens and orders and bottles get fuked up by minimum wage staff.

But seriously wtf? An entitled snowflake needs a kick up the proverbial rear end and told to cop on. Unfortunatly the problem with social media such as Twitter is that it give eejits a place to hold the rest of the world to ransom.

A PhD is a level of education exemplifying an ability to reason and use logic. Something which has clearly not met the mark here. UCD needs to take itself outside for a check what the fuk is up to with this type of ****e and helping to play the PC bandwagon...

Its impossible for the story to have happened, blackcurrant cordial isn't served in a wine glass and cordial bottles and wine bottles are entirely unalike. Even if it was some mix up with the splash taps at the bar, i don't see how it could be construed as racism, I mean what's the worst that could happen, another staff member or manager simply brings the red wine as ordered, even if the original server was racist, why would they risk it all on something inconsequential?

boring accountant wrote: »

Have I ever witnessed a customer being served Ribena when they asked for wine? No, but anyone who says the hotel's story doesn't add up has an agenda.

I have no agenda. I'm skeptical about their version of events.

Have you ever been in a situation where a customer received the wrong drink because someone poured it from a display bottle?

Earthhorse wrote: »

Have to say I find this really bizarre. I’ve ordered hundreds of glasses of wine in my brief few years drinking it. I’ve also been around people who drink it ordering it possibly thousands of times. Not once have we been mistakenly served blackcurrant cordial (from a display bottle or otherwise). Nor have I ever heard of this happening to anyone on a night out.

How many times have you heard this incident manifested as a racist tactic though?

Id wager never.

I also do not know what happened but she doubled down the racism card when she described being served by a black staff member.

She then called for all "Blacks" to visit the hotel to not let them "win".

Id believe the hotel before her tbh. Context is everything, she had everything to gain by going bananas and her job is the subject matter.

Seizing an opportunistic chance to keep herself relevent.

She really does nothing to help me overcome my held stereotype of Nigerians in Ireland. In fact she just reinforced it with another 10 ft of solid concrete

sabat wrote: »

I'm open to correction here but didn't she arrive here as part of the great anchor-baby asylum swindle of the late 90s/early 00s?

A lot of them did- and we are now truly bearing the fruits of that insanity right now

road_high wrote: »

What is the PC term now? I guess Coloured or Darky currants is even more “offensive”?

undercurrants of racism there all-right

boring accountant wrote: »

The question you should be asking me is have I ever seen someone purposefully mess with a customer's food or drink, because that's the real issue here. I haven't. Ever. If you have a bad customer you want to get them out the door as soon as possible. You don't want them calling you over giving you grief and you certainly don't want to give them the high ground by actually f-ing with them. The idea that this was deliberate is far far less likely than the idea it was an accident.

The reason I’m asking the question is because of the prevailing consensus on the thread that this is an easy mistake to make. But if that’s the case then why have I never encountered it? You suggested my experience as a customer was useless so I asked you had you ever encountered it. You hadn’t. So I’m going to suggest that this is, in fact, a difficult mistake to make, or more accurately, an unlikely incident to occur.

You haven’t ever experienced someone messing with a customer's order. Nor have you ever experienced someone mistaking cordial for wine (in whatever manner). So I find your conclusion that the latter is far less likely one I don’t agree with.

Like I say, it’s a bizarre incident. But this is somehow a contentious thing to say.

PonchoMcHoncho wrote: »

I've gotten unwashed glasses, half drank drinks that ended up on the tray to the table rather than to the dishwasher, other peoples drinks from a different table. In a busy restaurant if something gets laid down in the wrong spot for whatever reason someone else will pick it up. It's probably happened before but this is the first time it's turned into a public incident because it's the first time someone decided it constitutes a hate crime!

Likewise I’ve received things I didn’t order or not received my order at all. But again the point is about how the prevailing consensus is that this is an easy mistake to make yet we’ve never heard of it happening before. Perhaps, as you say it’s because no one publicised previous incidents. Either way, it’s bizarre.

Oh my God, Karen! you can't just ask people why they're white.

a comment there "The first Babies born were 2020 were AFRICAN and south American"

I mean the racism isn't even barely concealed, but I was watching the news last when that report was on, and my father said 'was there an Irish baby born in the country at all last night?' ...