Is there a name for a collection of leftover booze poured into a singe receptacle? ISTR it’s ‘[something] bucket’.
Mojo? Joy juice? My father was a bartender in Alaska. Way back in the 40s, he would collect all the glasses and bottles from the tables and bar top during the evening, dump them all into an empty whiskey bottle or three, and sell them for a nickel to the drunks outside the back door of the saloon.
Slop bucket
At one of the classier places I bartended, we would empty the spill mats into The Bucket and sell mystery shots for $1 to idiot drunken frat boys at the end of the night. So gross. That job lasted all of two weeks.
When I worked in a pub, the beer that overflowed from the pumps was called ‘ullage’.
Google ‘ullage’ and we are told that it is "the space in a closed container of liquid that is not filled by the liquid". Look further and we see: "Ullage therefore has come to be used as a general term, in the licensed trade, for waste beer whether at the barrel or at the bar tap or pump. However, what customers leave in their glasses does not count as ullage, because it has been sold.
I never saw any waste spirits, either in the bottles or in the customers glasses.
Ambrosia?
Unfinished drinks go down the drain. Anything else is despicable.
Nevertheless.
I want to say the term I’ve heard is ‘spooge bucket’, but that can’t be right.
What a charming way to purchase alcoholic beverages! For some reason I find myself wondering if the Queen (I guess it would have been King George at the time) ever sent a personal envoy to acquire some of that vintage beverage. If he did, then the bottles could have been labeled with a Royal Warrant – “By Appointment to His Majesty King George VI” – and the drunks, entranced by the sheer class of it all, would probably have been willing to pay as much as a dime a bottle!
We called that an “LA Freeway”.
Here in Wisconsin we call that a “Wapatui”. It can be a menagerie of fresh liquor or a blend of old booze left over from a previous party. A large plastic garbage can is usually the receptacle
It’s a staple at UW frat parties.
I wish people would finish their drinks, in a world where millions of people have to go to bed sober every night.
At UMaine it was Jim Jones punch.
But that would only date back to the late 70’s. What was it called before then? We used the word “Wapatui” at least as far back as the early 60’s.
Memory: When I was about 5 in 1965 my Uncle made “Wapatui” in a grey 50 gallon garbage pail by dumping all the bottles of booze my Dad had behind the bar in the rec room of our basement. Then he got sick as hell from it and my Pop got mad as hell that he did that! That’s my earliest memory of hearing the word “Wapatui”.
Snipe bucket. Pretty regional I think.
In Cannery Row, it was called a wining jug.
“. . . He kept a gallon jug under the bar and in the mouth of the jug there was a funnel. Anything left in the glasses Eddie poured into the funnel before he washed the glasses. If an argument or a song were going on at La Ida, or late at night when good fellowship had reached its logical conclusion, Eddie poured glasses half or two-thirds full into the funnel. The resulting punch which he took back to the Palace was always interesting and sometimes surprising. The mixture of rye, beer, bourbon, scotch, wine, rum and gin was fairly constant, but now and then some effete customer would order a stinger or an anisette or a curacao and these little touches gave a distinct character to the punch. It was Eddie’s habit always to shake a little angostura into the jug just before he left. On a good night Eddie got three-quarters of a gallon. It was a source of satisfaction to him that nobody was out anything. He had observed that a man got just as drunk on half a glass as on a whole one, that is, if he was in the mood to get drunk at all.”
Long Island Ice Tea?
You just made me waste a mouthful of perfectly good drink!