ABC News: Cocktail Condom? Protection for Your Drink

ABC News: Cocktail Condom? Protection for Your Drink

The concept behind the cocktail cover is fairly simply. About the size of a coaster, it can be used to cap a drink that goes unattended. When a person returns to a beverage, there is a layer that can be pulled back, leaving a thin sheath protecting the cocktail. That can be punctured with a straw or pulled off entirely — either way the drinker will know that the cocktail has not been tampered with.

I’m not sure I’m really comfortable with the whole idea. Page two of the article seems to agree with me:

Pokaski also said that enforcing any kind of mandatory dispensing of cocktail covers, in addition to being unnecessary “micromanaging,” would be impossible to enforce

This part doesn’t help:

More specifically, Murphy wants bars to consider offering customers the cocktail covers designed by Barry, who is currently trying to patent his prevention device.

It may or may not be what was intended by that sentence, but it reads to me that Counselor Murphy is focused on getting Greg Barry’s invention into the spotlight. (Heck, got it onto ABC News)