He was a hardcore alcoholic.
The first three just made the shaking stop.The first one stopped the shaking, the second got him back to “normal”, the third finally started to give him a buzz, and the fourth just kept the party going
On the other hand, a Long Island iced tea from Outback Steakhouse is probably just a shot of vodka in a glass of crushed iced filled with sugary brown concentrate.
Havnt been to a outback in probably a decade but they used to make some of the strongest drinks and if you ask for it “down under” you basically got a cup of straight liquor.
Or they do it with half measures of everything, a little more mixer and a shitload of ice.
Still tastes almost the same but you have to order 6 of them to get utterly wankered not 3.
Most places will limit you to like two of those kinds of drinks. First time I learned this I thought I was being cut off. I was like “did I do something wrong?” They said no, you can order anything else. Just not more of those.
Which is odd, because they’ll let you order a beer and a shot as many times as you want, and that will fuck me up way more, for some reason.
A proper long Island is about 5 ounces of liquid with 4 of them being liquor. That’s way more potent than a bee and a shot.
You can taste it a lot more in a beer or shot. Its much less likely to sneak up on you, with how much alcohol is in a long Island, and the fact you can hardly taste it.
I gotta try one cuz I hear this all the time, but the ingredients are nothing but alcohol. Is it like there’s just so much it cancels out the alcohol taste? 🤔
The flavors combine somehow to make it VERY easy to drink. I need to try cointreau and a splash of coke to see if that really is the magic.
Luck.
It’s always amazing when you find out how much more your parents generation drinks than you do. How much more their parents generation drank than they did. And how much more their great grandparents drank then all of y’all combined. This entire nation was hammered pretty much constantly.
My grandma thought one of her pregnancies was a hangover at first…
I was looking at current data on UK drinking and it was shockingly high. Not to disagree with you at all, but like, even today depending where you are, the numbers are wild. Booze is a hell of a drug.
Well the British are their own fucking thing. Although I did see something just the other day about how gen z Brits drink way less than their forebearers as well. And all the Talking Heads were shocked about it as if it was the greatest sin known to man. Which is telling.
…Except for 1920 to 1933…
Ha jokes on you, my great great grandfather ran a mule train up from Mexico loaded with liquor. Traded it for hard ciders and shine from the other Celtic families in the area, kept a mule worth himself though.
One set of my great grandparents met as a “musician for a speakeasy” (given some stories there’s no way it was just that) and a dancer for one.
Which makes it extra hilarious how much their daughter (one of my grandmas) really really obsessed over having the appearance of being high society. Definitely an over-correction. Ended up marrying into money, but was never high society.
Except for the bootleggers and speakeasies, wink wink.
Sure, but lack of access actually did reduce general consumption. The average person doesn’t drink more during prohibition.
Alcohol consumption went up for many people. Way up.
For some. Which is not enough to raise averages.
Look, I’ve just finished a bottle of wine, so I’m no teatotler. But what data does exist shows the immediate post-21st Amendment years as lower than pre-18th years. Prohibition was an overall failure, and I celebrate Repeal Day. but it did actually reduce the national average of alcohol consumption for a time.
https://theconversation.com/how-prohibition-changed-the-way-americans-drink-100-years-ago-129854
Lemmy moment:
They are supposed to reply to one another
gatekeeper
Concentrated power of will.
Five percent pressure
Skill.
Dad probably wondered the same thing
Chronic alcoholism.
When I was drinking it took half a bottle of whiskey for me to consider myself “drinking”.
Also probably fatter, having it with food, and the server mixing it made it weaker, or the owner was watering down the spirits…
