I certainly believe that the father in this case did make a simple mistake and was ignorant of the fact that the lemonade in question was an adult beverage. However, your responses identifying soda brands in glass bottles add nothing to the conversation regarding what is available in Comerica Park. That is all that I was pointing out.
BTW, thanks for brining back memories of the good old days while I was stationed at Ft. Lewis. That local brew was a pretty good and cheap alternative! Gotta love the 30 packs.
Granted.
However, some posters on this thread, were blaming the father for not knowing, at a glance of the shape of the drinking container (whatever it might have been), that his son had been given an alcoholic lemonade.
The father in question had a Ph.D. archeology. There is a reasonable probability that he knew more about distinguishing the difference between Etruscan drinking vessels from the drinking vessels of Magna Graecia than he knew about the alcoholic beverage culture of 21st Century America.
To judge the father with the certainty that some posters have on this thread also requires a familiarity with baseball stadiums. How can you possibly judge the father by the shape of the glass bottle that a beverage usually comes in when, as far as I know, glass bottles have been banned in baseball stadiums since the 1950's?
Detroit being Detroit, however, I can imagine the vendors in a Detroit ball park shouting, "Beer! Peanuts! Lemonade! Molotov Cocktails!"