“Twenty-nine New Jersey bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, were accused of substituting cheap booze — or worse — for the good stuff while charging premium prices,” the AP reports. The yearlong investigation — called Operation Swill, of course — found uses of dirty water instead of liquor and, in one case, rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring substituted for Scotch. Some belligerent Garden State drunks now have a new excuse; some were faking it.
