Althouse: "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."

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"?; 9/25/15, 12:02 PM
bleh said...: I honestly don't understand the concept.; 9/25/15, 12:03 PM
rehajm said...: We had something like that back in the day. We called it a 'drill press'; 9/25/15, 12:05 PM
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.); 9/25/15, 12:12 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: My first thought on reading the headline was, "Freeman Dyson has come to this?"; 9/25/15, 12:14 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: I'd have named it "The Penetrator."; 9/25/15, 12:15 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 12:17 PM
MadisonMan said...: The Green Alternative to drinking -- because you don't have to wash a glass.; 9/25/15, 12:31 PM
J. Farmer said...: Mileage upgrades get you the same drinks for free on flights.; 9/25/15, 12:33 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 12:38 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 12:39 PM
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.....; 9/25/15, 1:39 PM
richlb said...: Didn't South Carolinians fight hard to NOT be served alcohol out of mini bottles?; 9/25/15, 1:45 PM
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?; 9/25/15, 1:50 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 2:11 PM
Rusty said...: Show me a picture of the hole. I'll reverse engineer one for ya.; 9/25/15, 3:15 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 3:27 PM
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.; 9/25/15, 5:32 PM
BN said...: Oh, Susan, beat me to it. Oops.; 9/25/15, 5:35 PM
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.; 9/26/15, 1:35 PM