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>I saw a BBC doc yesterday about drinking in the UK. They have stores selling 3-liter bottles of 7.5% cider for four dollars. That is ridiculous. 3-liter bottle
by yomly 7y ago
>I saw a BBC doc yesterday about drinking in the UK. They have stores selling 3-liter bottles of 7.5% cider for four dollars. That is ridiculous. 3-liter bottles of dirt-cheap alcohol, cheaper than coke, are not bought by happy social drinkers. Any store selling those knows what it is doing.
Speak for yourself! The Strongbow 2-litre (sadly now £3-00 but was definitely closer to £2-00 back in 2000's) was the staple of many the happy teenager.
- sdfsafsafas 7y agoYou can get 2L Strongbow for 3 pounds in the the UK? Awesome!
- albertgoeswoof 7y agoProbably about £4 for 3 litre bottle. There’s a drinking game called Edward ciderhands where you tape a bottle to each hand and try to drink them both before going to the toilet.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoThe same game is played in the United States, traditionally with high ABV beer, where it has a different name, "Edward Fortyhands". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor#Forty-ounce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor#Forty-ounce
- chmielewski 7y agoI’ve always seen 5 to 5.5 used for Edward Fourtyhands, can you give me insight into why you mention “high ABV”?
- tonyarkles 7y agoIn Canada at least, the beer you could get in 40oz bottles was generally pretty strong. For example, Colt 45 is 8%. The hardest part of Edward Fourtyhands is that you’ve got to consume 80oz of strong malt liquor without peeing. Or... figuring out some way to unzip your pants...
- chmielewski 7y agoYeah lots of malts are up there, I suppose the game came about before the craft beer movement- many of these new craft beers are 9 to 13 and would never be sold in 40-form I suppose, so those are high ABV for a 32/40 I’m sure.
- sandworm101 7y agoHappy teen yes, but we set drinking ages for a reason. Teenage alcoholism is an evil that we rightly should fight against. When a kid is trying to decide what they want to buy, Strongbow should not be the cheaper option than diet coke.
- gjs278 7y agoyou’re right, let’s just lower the price of diet coke too
- stordoff 7y agoFWIW, drinking age in the UK is 18. There will be plenty of teenagers buying those legally.
- Fezzik 7y agoI think it is worth noting that in most non-theocratic countries 18 is the age of legal consumption of alcoholic beverages...
- yomly 7y agoWorth noting that France has no legal alcohol consumption age, and Germany has it set to 14 if a guardian is present. Alcohol is deeply embedded in French and German culture (and surely other nations) - I have seen a 3 year old sipping some beer in Munich in a beer house. Amusingly, neither of the countries really has binge drinking culture as the UK or US has so >but we set drinking ages for a reason is not really true...