September 25, 2015

"Freeman has invented something called the 'Cha-Chunker,' a machine with a metal point that can be lowered into the mouth of any canned beverage to widen the hole."

"He then inverts a mini bottle of alcohol into the can..."

Check out the photos. A soda can is served with a mini-liquor bottle stuck into it. The effect is ludicrously low-class, but apparently it's a new and purporting-to-be-trendy thing in New York.

Here's a picture of the machine piercing the can.

20 comments:

chickelit said...

My first thought was "when did Freeman Hunt take to drink"?

bleh said...

I honestly don't understand the concept.

rehajm said...

We had something like that back in the day. We called it a 'drill press'

Freeman Hunt said...

Some people knit. Some people woodwork. Some people garden. Some people draw.

Me, I wanted to figure out a way to drink more types of alcohol out of cans. Ta-da!



(Okay, not really. It isn't me.)

Freeman Hunt said...

My first thought on reading the headline was, "Freeman Dyson has come to this?"

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I'd have named it "The Penetrator."

Sigivald said...

"The effect is ludicrously low-class"

I don't see it, myself.

I mean, it doesn't appeal, but "ludicrously low-class"? Don't see that, either.

I see a pointless novelty.

MadisonMan said...

The Green Alternative to drinking -- because you don't have to wash a glass.

J. Farmer said...

Mileage upgrades get you the same drinks for free on flights.

JSD said...

Serving the booze in nips can address some of the usual “bartender stealing tricks”. Running a bar is a really tough business. Most owners know their bartenders are stealing, they only hope that they aren’t stealing too much.

mikee said...

The method described does a few interesting things to provide a higher amount of revenue per drink served for the bar. It keeps the bartenders from over-pouring, if they were formerly incompetent. It sells rapidly prepared drinks for premium prices. It generates a sense of novelty in the drinks, making them sell more.

Next up, they will re-introduce margarita makers and pre-frozen dry martinis and vodka gimlets. Or maybe jello shots.

Anything to keep the dollar bills coming across the bar and into the register.

Levi Starks said...

Invented?
A common arbor press with a pointed cone stuck on the end of the ram?
I was expecting to see some kind of a machine.....

richlb said...

Didn't South Carolinians fight hard to NOT be served alcohol out of mini bottles?

clint said...

We have a long history of turning ludicrously low-class things into fads.

Designer blue jeans anyone?

Pre-faded?

Pre-stressed?

With holes already worn through the knees?

Baelzar said...

I'm not going to get into the obvious class issues with this establishment and it's new contraption, but I will say that Ron Zacapa rum is DA BOMB DIGGITY and I want five of those "Dark and Stormy" drinks pronto.

Rusty said...

Show me a picture of the hole. I'll reverse engineer one for ya.

Susan said...

Looks like the kind of "invention" that merits an invitation to Google and this Whitehouse. If only he had thought to put it in a pencil box.

BN said...

Beats that clock bomb thing. Some kid should bring one to school, see if he can get a sit down with His Majesty.

BN said...

Oh, Susan, beat me to it. Oops.

Beldar said...

The "ka-chunk machine" appears to be a simple punch press. Bronze-age technology, but unusual to see it applied in this context.

I enjoyed the photo at the end, of the lab-coated proprietor, who looked as I would have imagined after reading about the place and its concept.