DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

The sink drain usually has a strainer with a rubber gasket that can 'seal' the drain so the fluid stays in. Those gaskets do not usually seal perfectly. When new, your sink will hold the fluid for long periods of time. After a few years use I would expect the fluid to leak out. Maybe slowly, but over a few hours you're just pouring your drinks down the drain. To make it worse, you will have to sterilize your sink before putting the drink in there, and that would include sterilizing the drain and its gasket. Asking for trouble in my opinion.

A much better solution would be a large pot or punch bowl. Old style, but you can put it anywhere you want. The drinks won't leak out. A punch bowl usually comes with a ladle which will keep things more sanitary. And when you have a party, the group is not usually in the kitchen where the sink is. They will get in the way of food prep.

Overall, a poorly thought out idea.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Maybe we lived as long as we have is partly because we drank from the same water bucket out in the hayfield or where ever, picked up that food we dropped and ate it, enjoyed the fallen apple, or cleaned the mud off the bottom of our shoes with our pocket knife, wiped it off on our trousers and sliced cheese and summer sausage to eat on a cracker. In other words we self-inoculated.

Red6

Reminds me of my days on the farm. When I was much younger, not old enough to drive a tractor or strong enough to pick up the hay bales, my job was to bring the water bucket to the farm hands working in the field. These were decades before bottled water existed so everybody got their water from the bucket using a dipper. The dipper was basically a cup on a long handle.

The thirsty worker would just dip a dipper full of water from the bucket, drink, and return the dipper to the bucket for the next guy.

When not used for farmhands, this bucket and dipper were kept on the kitchen counter for our drinking water. We filled the bucket from the cistern outside that caught water from the roof runoff. Normally we used a glass or cup to drink from and that was filled using the dipper.

Never heard of anyone getting sick from these practices or our cistern water. Would I do it today? Probably not.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

More a case of we're living too clean and don't know how to fight these things. Hard to see a kid with dirty hands these days.

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

They invented punch bowls centuries ago.

Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

Dogs are getting so lazy that they now sell straws that go into the toilet!

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

It's not the sink so much as the thought of the drain that bothers me. You can sanitize the sink but how does one sanitize the drain? I would think it's almost impossible to block off the drain pipe.

W9OD Loc: Wisconsin

Maybe, they did a Covid test to all the party goers as they entered? Still a big yuck for me.

RoswellAlien

Bath tub gin, maybe?

DVZ Loc: Littleton CO

For larger parties you can use the bathtub?

diclam Loc: Red Lake Falls, MN

When I was much younger, we would make "Jungle Juice" especially for bachelor parties. In a very large cooler we'd pour in a generous amount of our favorite liquor, usually vodka or everclear or both, then add various juices - apple, orange, grape, or whatever you had. Then add some pop 7up, squirt, or Canada Dry. Then some real fruit raspberries, strawberries, pineapple. Add ice and dip your cup into the cooler for a great drink!!
We went to a "keg party" once that ended up not having a tap for the 16 gallon keg of beer, so they put the keg into the household bathtub and punched out the cork. Of course, this is under pressure and they lost almost half of the beer as it sprayed all over the bathroom. Then people would dip their cup in the tub for a beer. I had brought my own beer to the party so I elected to drink that instead. I didn't think that seeing soap scum, or worst, floating in my beer would be very appetizing. Again, a long, long time ago!!