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It tastes like ass as well. I haven't drank in like 8 years by now, but I think I would've taken longer to quit it if it tasted like a full fat Coke, lol.
if it tasted like a full fat Coke, lol.
Sugar is more addictive than alcohol.
And so is coffee from what my mom tells me but nobody cheated, got rowdy or beat his wife because of too many churros, lol.
And pound for pound almost just as bad for your liver
I do think a lot of people force themselves to like it, when it's "cool" as a young adult. I'd bet most people would pick a different drink if there was no buzz around alcohol.
100%. I never could convince myself to like it and I tried like hell in my early 20s. Then I discovered hard cider, still not better than a soda but good enough to easily get fucked up with.
But then weed became legal and I've all but phased out drinking altogether. Besides, it's too damn expensive
"Cool" or "tough", I saw it both in my teenage and army days. People are very silly. Being a good family man, responsible father and loving husband, that's cool; controlling one's anger, being self-sacrificial, needing little and giving a lot, that's tough. Oh well. 🤷♂️🙃
I haven't drank in ~2.5 years and got served an alcoholic beer on accident.
Even the first sip tasted awful. Super sweet but at the same time like disinfectant.
And I used to love this brand of beer. Crazy how much of an acquired taste alcohol is.
You sure that wasn’t an alcohol free beer? Unless it’s de-alcholized beer, a non-alcoholic beer is stopped being brewed before a lot of the sugar from the yeast is turned into alchohol.
So they tend to be sweeter unless they add some additives, and they taste like stale alcohol as well, that could have been the disinfectant tinge. As they are still 0.5% alcohol typically.
100% sure because I've ordered the nonalcoholic Version and they apologised about a hundred times when I pointed out it was an alcoholic beer.
I drink a lot of non alcoholic beers and tried a lot of different brands, so I'm used to the way they taste. Also a lot of them have very low amounts of sugar in them (I.e. Jever fun, Fürstenberg 0%, etc).
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In the community page of my investment platform, the older folks who invested in Diageo, the parent company of Guiness, are genuinely shocked and finally convinced that younger generations are drinking less because Diageo is struggling financially.
Nevermind the health reasons why drinking alcohol is bad, it just really have become expensive to go out, let alone go drinking alcohol!
I've read that certain GLPs used for weight loss can also cause a distaste for alcohol. Someone that had been a somewhat regular drinker was interviewed saying they suddenly found that they didn't like the taste anymore and stopped drinking alcoholic beverages.
Not gonna say that's the whole cause of course, but it may be a contributing factor.
I pretty much stopped drinking on Wegovy mostly because I always feel full and I have to choose between a cocktail or food.
And same face for younger generation when they have difficulties meeting people and building relationships with colleagues etc.
hey, man. i'm a gen-xer drinking lime beer and watching 90s general hospital episodes on youtube.
lemme lay it down for you, youngin'.
pokeman is lame. memes are lame. drinking alcoholic beverages without alcohol is lame. naming an alcoholic beverage without alcohol a 'mocktail' is lame.
your entire generation is composed of 90% plastic from soda bottles and the other 10% is from social media propaganda. you don't want to poison yourselves lol.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
any questions?
Right on brother
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