The Drunk Basket

•Bars in 1960s Turkey used to hire workers to carry "too drunk" people back home

•These people were called küfeci and
To be so drunk you couldn’t walk was called küfe.

•Many bars in Turkey would often employ basket men whose sole purpose was to take patrons home when they were too drunk to stand up.

•Most of these men would work as porters during the day and then would work as basket men at night to earn some extra money.⁣