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Sensory Drinks?

Those crazy kids in Oz (Australia) have created Sensory Drinks. What’s that you ask? If you order one of these Sensory drinks, you get escorted to a private area, are served the drink, asked to put on a blindfold and earphones (which are hooked up to an ipod with specially selected tunes), then get misted by a server for 18 minutes.

“The sensory cocktails work like this: order the daiquiri, and you’re tucked into a semiprivate spot where you sip your drink blindfolded while listening to 18 minutes of Cuban music on an iPod. All the while, a waitress spritzes you with a cigar mist made by simmering crumbled cigars in water and simple syrup.

The idea, said Grant Collins, Zeta’s consulting mixologist, is “to heighten the link between the drink and the experience. Listening to the music makes your mind drift, and the blindfold heightens your sense of smell.” And the smoky mist? It’s a sensory trick to make you think you’re in Havana.”

So they’ve got the “Tiki” which gives the Havana, Cuba experience, the Sea Breeze which is destined to make you feel like you’re sitting on the beach sipping your cocktail, and a Martini that plays a Rat Pack soundtrack to make you feel like you’re in New York. Something tells me that if this thing catches on and ends up here in the States…it’s going to “progress” into something really bizarre. Like…Sex on the Beach – as the woman is sipping her fruity libation, Beach Boy tunes are piped through her headphones, a salt spray is misted around her, while the waiter slaps her face with his cock. I just don’t see this ending well.