False drinks

Talking about spirits...
Many tourists who come to Tenerife are fooled by some of the bars here. ( Not all bars!)
Maybe the bar owners, in the cases in point, would be angry at me if they see I blog about this. But I think all the wrong situations in which the tourists are treated here causes them a bad experience of their holiday, and they maybe choose an other destination next time. At least they will choose an other bar! People are not stupid!

If you as an example order an Irish coffee you have to tell what kind of whiskey you like to have in it. If you don't you probably will get an Irish coffee made of a cheap local whiskey and you have to pay the same price as if it was including Chivas Regal or something similar.
The same if you order a drink of Gin, Bacardi, Brandy or Vodka etc.
They have got cheap imitations of all the common spirits. And people complain it tastes terrible.
I wonder how long they can continue doing this when it needs to be against the law of the consumer.
We are in EU! Aren't we? If a bar in Finland would do this it would be closed down immediately or be brought before the court!

This is a trick that the bars are doing to earn more money but it has opened up a market for honest bar companies like Harry's Cocktail bar and other similar to that chain.
When you go to a solid bar you are served by educated bartenders and they put exactly the right measures and the right stuff in your drink and you get what you order and pay for. That's the image of their business and I think they do a good business when people are more enlightened today and prefer to have the real stuff that stands for quality.
When you order a drink in a `trick bar´ they make the measure by the eye and if you like to have something on rockets (ice cubs) you can end up getting only 2 cl of alcohols instead of 4 cl, still paying for the larger amount. It's really insolent!
Sometimes if the person behind the bar is in good mood you can get up to 12 cl of the cheap alcohols in your drink and you have to dilute and dilute during the night to get it drinkable.

If you as an example like to have a whiskey, tell which one you like to have and that will help you to get what you pay for.

Oh, there are so many things in this society which are a bit shaky and I can't even tell you about everything I know. I am not the person who can say how everything has to be.
When you move into an other culture you should accept the circumstances there and be happy that you can live and work there. But sometimes I get so tired of hearing complains from vulnerable tourists. I like them to have a lovely vacation here on our paradise island and would like to see them return year after year.