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Is this the end for the pint glass?
The Home Office has said today that it is investigating safer ways to drink beer, ie getting rid of the pint glass. But as any beer aficionado will tell you beer only tastes proper out of glass. Plastic, now matter how good it is, just doesn't cut the mustard.
Worringly, Sebastian Conran, who heads the Home Office's wonderfully named Design and Technology Allaince Against Crime, said in The Times: "There are existing plastic glasses and if you go to a baseball game in the United States you can buy beer in a paper cup." If you're drinking what is probably Bud or Miller Lite or whatever out of a paper cup, well it seems like a marriage made in Heaven to me.
The Home Office says that an estimated 87,000 injuries a year are caused by pint glasses. As the research into a new pint container is being carried out under the umbrella of crime prevention we're presumably meant to believe that that means there are 87,000 'glassing'-type assaults a year, and you know I suspect that isn't true. I think those injuries include bar staff dropping them and tipsy punters knocking them over.
Cars are dangerous when they're being driven badly, but that doesn't mean we should ban them all.
If the Home Office is keen on reducing alcohol-related crime I suggest it starts in the superstores with their cut-price loss-leader booze which can all to easily find its way into the wrong hands - and mouths - and those bars with ridiculous discount deals aimed squarely at partying youngsters.
A pint glass in responsible hands is the best way to enjoy good beer, and unless the boffins are going to come up with a very clever piece of design we haven't seen yet, I shall remain sceptical that this exercise is going to make the world of decent drinker a better place.
Worringly, Sebastian Conran, who heads the Home Office's wonderfully named Design and Technology Allaince Against Crime, said in The Times: "There are existing plastic glasses and if you go to a baseball game in the United States you can buy beer in a paper cup." If you're drinking what is probably Bud or Miller Lite or whatever out of a paper cup, well it seems like a marriage made in Heaven to me.
The Home Office says that an estimated 87,000 injuries a year are caused by pint glasses. As the research into a new pint container is being carried out under the umbrella of crime prevention we're presumably meant to believe that that means there are 87,000 'glassing'-type assaults a year, and you know I suspect that isn't true. I think those injuries include bar staff dropping them and tipsy punters knocking them over.
Cars are dangerous when they're being driven badly, but that doesn't mean we should ban them all.
If the Home Office is keen on reducing alcohol-related crime I suggest it starts in the superstores with their cut-price loss-leader booze which can all to easily find its way into the wrong hands - and mouths - and those bars with ridiculous discount deals aimed squarely at partying youngsters.
A pint glass in responsible hands is the best way to enjoy good beer, and unless the boffins are going to come up with a very clever piece of design we haven't seen yet, I shall remain sceptical that this exercise is going to make the world of decent drinker a better place.
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