Bar Debuts Drink Called “Date Grape Kool-Aid"

[reflection]

http://consumerist.com/2014/02/04/bar-debuts-drink-called-date-grape-kool-aid-outrage-inevitably-ensues/

There are some serious topics you can joke about: Life’s unavoidable death sentence? Hilarious. The frailty of man in the face a cold and unforgiving universe? Knee-slapping good fun. But naming a drink after the very serious, unfunny subject of date rape? Nope. Tell that to a bar in Spokane, Wa., where a new “Date Grape Kool-Aid” drink is now on the menu.

If this was just a publicity stunt to promote a new bar, well then consider yourself publicized, bar owners. But since the drink list was posted last Friday, critics have been calling the drink out for making light of what is a very serious problem, reports WXYL, with one group starting a Facebook page to boycott the bar.

Women who have been victims of rape and others against the questionable name have called for the bar to change the name, but the owner says the name is here to stay.

Not only that, but the bar reportedly bragged about selling 10 gallons of the drink on the same night protesters showed up to rally against the drink and ask for an apology.

What the hell has happened to common sense?

[Squinch]

1. "What rape culture?"

[Xipe Totec]

4. Ouch! Don't make me flinch. nt

[nykym]

2. it has been

perverted by profit.

[Brickbat]

3. God, you guys, it's just a joke.

Why don't you focus on REAL issues and leave the wordplay alone.

(First!)

[frazzled]

11. ha ha ha; feminists just don't have a sense of humor

http://www.ted.com/talks/nellie_mckay_sings_feminists_and_if_i_had_you.html

[Cleita]

5. As an ex-bartender we all know, both male and female,

that a saloon or club that creates a friendly and safe atmosphere for women will have success because the boys will go to the places where the ladies go and the ladies go to places where they are comfortable and feel protected. I'm certain that no woman will stay in a place with that drink on its menu. Look for an early demise for that club even if there had not been a single protest.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. "Date Grape"? LOL

Hysterically funny joking about rape, just like joking about arson at places that would serve such a drink...

[bravenak]

7. Gross.

I hope it's not salty, with GHB undertones.
Date rape is the funniest joke. I bet the victims just wake up laughing and laughing. Like ' You got me!! That was the funniest rape ever!! We're still friends, I'm not mad.'
So terribly amusing to be forced to have sex against your will if the drink is purple. Now, don't get me wrong, if it were date rape pineapple, that would be disgusting.

[Mnemosyne]

8. A man that I thought was a good friend, showed up for dinner

the night after he raped me. I had asked him before the rape. Wish I could have had one of those 'fun' drinks first.

He did find me several years later and apologized, wanted to be friends again. Didn't happen, the renewed friendship, I did forgive him.

[bravenak]

9. That is so messed up.

Like that guy who molested Richard Pryor who showed up for an autograph. Sick minded.

'Fun' drinks. I wish I had got one too. Then I could forget how bad it was. I hope their bar fails.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Some disgusting twisted fucks traverse our world.

[bravenak]

12. It so sad.

I'm glad you made it through. Some of us don't.

[Mnemosyne]

17. I am a walking miracle, as are all survivors.

[Squinch]

15. You are a better person than I am.

[Mnemosyne]

16. No, I was just still in shock and had been trained to allow people to abuse me and say it was ok.

"He doesn't mean anything by it." and "Just ignore him." were drilled into my head in regard to my step-father's groping and touching from age 7 - 14, when I officially left 'home'.

It took me many years to understand that was I was basically brain-washed into trying to ignore the abuse. I lost most of my family for daring to say, years later, that he was inappropriate, and allowed emotionally and physically abusive people into my life for too long as a result, imho.

[Squinch]

19. The people you left behind are probably still in that quagmire.

And it is common that, while you recovered, those kinds of people continued to try to exploit those parts of you.

But you did walk away, which takes unbelievable amounts of courage, and here you are, with an understanding that would never have been possible if you had stayed. You ARE a walking miracle!

How are the people you have around you now? Do you have supportive people?

[In_The_Wind]

13. Oh please ...

While the bar maintains that the rest of us just aren’t getting the joke, Kraft, which makes Kool-Aid, is not pleased about its product being used in such a drink.

“We at Kraft are appalled. Kool-Aid does not support or condone this drink, and it finds its name to be highly insensitive to a serious issue. This blatant misuse of the Kool-Aid trademark is offensive to so many, including us, and we are making it our top priority to address the situation ASAP,” said Kraft in a statement.

"the rest of us just aren’t getting the joke"

[MerryBlooms]

14. Repulsive.

[Blue_Adept]

18. They're not as cool as Tentacle Grape

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tentacle-grape-soda

It's a subculture thing, riffing on the whole Japanese tentacle porn thing. But something else for folks to get their underwear in a bunch over.