To put red bull in the base of the school's punch bowl at the summer fair?

[Papercutter]

I am NEVER getting roped into anything again! It's the summer fair shortly and I got collared by the PTA queen bee and I found myself agreeing to staff the beer tent. It's an all day job, and last year the tent was sweltering and full of wasps.

This year she's decided that on top of the very specific requests for various spirits ("oh be a darling and ask Clare to bring a couple of bottles of gin") we need a fruit punch for the kids rather than fruit shoots etc, because punch is more healthy and less waste. She's got a point about the waste admittedly.

This thankless task has fallen to me. WIBU to throw in gallons of redbull and just see what happens?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

"Why do you need a bar at a summer fair?"

All of the school summer fairs I have been to would have been made a lot more bearable by a drink or several two, differentnameforthis - especially the one where I got roped in to help on a stall.

[LittleMissIntrovert]

We get a temporary licence from the council for each event which we pay for, so yes we have a licence. We get I think a temporary event notice? Permits playing music, selling alcohol etc.

[BestZebbie]

If this wasn't a joke, then yes, YABU because Red Bull isn't vegetarian and no-one would be looking out for non-veggie fruit punch.

[ARunOfThings]

I agree with Settler... big bowl of cordial with slices of fruit in it, and lots of ice! Or two bowls, one some kind of lemon flavour with oranges in, and one some sort of berries with apple.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

Personally I find Relentless gives more of a buzz, but you need some old fashioned food colouring if going for the full hyperactivity. Hard to get hold of now, perhaps investigate the squash and brightly coloured fizzy drinks sold in the less reputable supermarkets. Put a few currants in so it looks like there are dead insects in it.
Are you planning a display of Strategic Incompetence so you never get asked again?

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

I should have put at the end of that.

[wafflyversatile]

I think your best plan is to loudly, and with a straight face, make plans to put red bull in the punch in front of the organiser so that she relieves you of your duties.

[Frizzcat]

Like others have said use squash but the full sugar one. Add some lucozade, will deliver similar buzz but it's shorter lived. Therefore the kids will only wreck the school fayre and not their parents homes. HTH

[Icimoi]

Goodness, ASettler, I've never known a school fair NOT have a bar. As said upthread, it's easily the most profitable stall and frankly, if I have to flog round school fairs on hot summer Saturdays failing to win raffles and tombolas, I need a long, icy lager to survive.

My bitter experience on the other side of the stall counter is of bitches people failing to turn up to take their slot on the rota, leaving the mug in the earlier slot, generally me, with no choice but to carry on.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Bake a few chocolate brownies and millionaire shortbread using a hefty % of Ex-Lax then retire at a safe distance
I have NEVER done this though considered it frequently.

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Best their website says it's vegan suitable, gluten free.

Is this the bulls sperm/bulls testicle thing?
(I've never drunk it myself)

[Butteredparsnips]

I'd do it. it will make decorate a biscuit so much better.

[Papercutter]

Going to do it. I bloody am.

Will report back!

[NerrSnerr]

Beast- it is vegetarian energydrink-uk.redbull.com/suitable-for-vegetarians

[SocksRock]

We always have a bar, easy enough with a Temporary Event Notice. Costs about £25 I think. Easily the most profitable bit of the fair :-)

[Dawndonnaagain]

erm, some children are allergic to some of the ingredients and certainly the caffiene could be dangerous for some.

[gruber]

I was about to say what Dawn said. My son has highly specific allergies and if I gave him fruit punch thinking it was ok but it actually had Red Bull in, he would be vomiting and in agony for the next 24 hours. I would be furious. Please, please don't do something so irresponsible and short sighted. You may think it's a laugh. It could hospitalise my son.

[Ubik1]

I am so jealous you are allowed a bar

The punch sounds fab. You could give little packs of haribo along with the punch.

Even better, I once scandalised some alpha mummies by turning up to a picnic with cheapo ice poles from lidl. The blue ones are ace. Just have them in a cool box, 50p a shot.

[Ubik1]

Surely if your kid has allergies you don't risk drinking the school fair 'punch' ???

[Jackie0]

This all sounds so posh, I bet whatever you do it will be fab

[Changeasgoodasis]

Please don't
www.livescience.com/48765-energy-drinks-side-effects.html

[Sallystyle]

A beer tent at a kids fair?

All we got today was cakes, tea, coffee and squash.

And they didn't even sell the muffins I bloody made!

[WombatStewForTea]

We had a bar at our school fair once. It was a really nice day and everyone enjoyed sitting out in the sun. Problem was that we couldn't get people to go home! It went on hours longer than it should have and we all wanted to go home! Not had a bar since

[differentnameforthis]

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius yeah, you have a point there!

[SweetPeaSoup]

It sounds like a giggle, but I think that that amount of caffeine can be dangerous for children, can't it?