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My statement isn't that Americans are still drowning in cheaper than milk corn-booze. It's that there's a shared history regarding alcohol consumption which is
by ABCLAW 5y ago
My statement isn't that Americans are still drowning in cheaper than milk corn-booze.
It's that there's a shared history regarding alcohol consumption which is uniquely American in nature.
Prohibition is part of that unique experience, and very much a part of the explanation for the compression of the consumption distribution.
- zwp 5y agoA slight tangent but Hogarth's "Beer Street and Gin Lane" (1751) documents a similar example of low grain prices resulting in massive, country-wide alcohol consumption in England. The subsequent government reaction and legislation did not go as far as American prohibition though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane