But the implication is that ā despite the ādrink responsiblyā disclaimers in booze ads ā the alcohol industry is only profitable because its best customers are drinking dangerous, life- and family-destroying quantities of booze.
Perhaps I should RTFA, because I suspect Iām misreading something here. Or maybe Iām not and this is meant as an indictment of the entire alcohol industry. And maybe Iām questioning that because Iām a drink snob, but I donāt think that, say, microbreweries are profitable because of a small number of people who consume destructive amounts of alcohol. How many people are downing ten or more nicely crafted IPAs every day? The same is true for high-end spirits. On the other hand itās believable to me that, say, producers of cheap gin depend more on heavy drinkers than on those who like the occasional martini.
I realize alcoholism is a disease, and Iām not saying that cheap liquor and beer are a cause, or even a contributing factor. Iām sure there are alcoholics who can afford the good stuff, even if theyāre more interested in quantity than quality. But I also think criticism of alcohol producers should be more nuanced.
I have a really hard time believing this. If it was true, then a big portion of the people they reached over the phone were totally shitfaced ā and can you really believe them at that point?
I had a friend who was making a nice salary but he was slamming down the cheap vodka in plastic jugs (and lots of beer). I was never tempted by the vodka because it smelled like benzene and acetone. Heās deadā¦
I lost all confidence in research I see in the news back when I was in grad school, when I realized that most of this research was done by other grad students like my friends and me. We certainly didnāt know what we were doing.
Slice up some (candied) ginger and let it infuse for a week or so.
Not to mention the people that did not answer the phone because they were passed out.
Itās been some years now, so Iām not 100% reliable at this point; but I remember it being interesting. I think it also helped provide some context for the intensity and relative popularity of the ātemperanceā enthusiasts of various flavors.
Itās hard not to think of them as a slightly more comical version of drug warriors, in all their hyperbole and cynical self-interest, unless you have a sense of just how serious we were about getting unbelievably shitfaced more or less all the time.
Or you know, 15% who find it tastes like burning, 10% who find it boring, and 5% who are successfully-recovering alcoholics.
I suspect the statistics are getting skewed by the top 1% of people who consume 97 drinks per day.
Me, I find it hard to believe that some 60% of American adults have fewer than one drink a week.
Di you know how much a week of bottle service costs?
And a couple percent where the meth or heroin has eliminated the need for booze.
Arnāt you forgetting something?
RELIGION.
A man, a plan, a binge, what was I talkinā 'bout? ā¦hic
a couple of fluid pounds?
Do people from religions which condemn drinking alcohol drink less alcohol? or more alcohol? or about the same amount?
I described Boyhood to my father, a lifelong film enthusiast, the last time I saw him. He was lucid enough to appreciate the balls required to take on a project like that.
Iād like my mother to see it, but sheād find the drunken-second-husband parts really hard to take. She stuck around until my father sobered up, but still, lots of trigger material in that film.
Bill Welbrock was quite explicitly an alcoholic and really frightening, but Jim had similar problems.
