Can't even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.
I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.
Yep, it's very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it's expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
Margins on alcohol sales are fairly high, especially with high rates of industry consolidation over the last decade.
Retail alone collects a 20-30% vig on well standard hard liquor, for instance. Distributors can add another 40%.
The Gray Goose sticker price of $30 for 750mL includes an excise tax of $2.40 So around 8%, by comparison.
I mean I'm 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren't very aware of their limits lol)
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Ewwwww is that sugar free coke?
Looks like cherry coke zero.
Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you're fucking up if you're not using full fat coke
Though if the plan is to mix coke with that honey jack maybe the booze is sweet enough already
That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you'd have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.
I've used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.
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Coke zero is decent
Diet coke is disgusting
Ditto Pepsi
I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it's in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.
For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that's an indicator or not.
does drinking things with sucralose make your mouth have an aftertaste like carbonated and sweet vomit? if yes then i think i have the same thing
It's very distinct. I wouldn't call it vomit, but it's a lingering chemical-ey taste.
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pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn't even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home
are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old's bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated
I recently discovered that there is a similar taste reaction to aspartame than there is to cilantro. It doesn't taste like soap, but it tastes awful to some people. I can't drink any sugar-free or diet drinks as they all taste horrific to me
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Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
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I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn't even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you're wondering if we care about what you're buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don't fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
edit: oh and I learned about a new pasta last week, that was cool
Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won't notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
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Step 1: Wear a ski mask
Step 2: Shoplift?
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?
(Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes "Profit" just not for you)
Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
You could also demand to see the kerrygold's papers, and then leave with it.
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That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn't buy any of those but the butter.
I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don't want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
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I can confirm whiskey, coke, butter and a 12-pack of beers is all I need for the week.
KerryGold probably making half the bill, extortion, I tell ye!
It's a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
Isn't that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
It's definitely dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. As in, "you can die" kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it's perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don't blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there's pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don't know about it, and neither does anyone else.
It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
Reminds me of a joke I've heard from a few people now. "Let's drink faster, guys, it's already getting dark."
Sure, if you don't know what you're doing. But, as we eliminate all regulations in the US, we gotta learn how to DIY.
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You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
Not as cheap as just plain alcohol. But yes, I home brew. Hops and Malt are not cheap, but sugar (insert any fermentable here, rice, cane sugar, corn, potatoes ext...) is.
My friend back when i was like 20 used to just brew some stuff using Alcotec TurboYeast and sugar, and then mixed concentrated fruit squash into it. Came out as like 12% and tasted like fruits, cost under 10p/litre. He was popular at parties
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I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious... can easily drink that on the rocks.
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I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.
Is the butter there to get the taste of the other three out of your mouth?
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Add another 20 bucks for the two packs of cigarettes for the two days. How could you forget that?
Also, honey Jack? Yuck. Jim Beam all the way baby.
We all need to make sacrifices. They should have gotten a handle of whiskey and drink water.
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