Drinking Myths -- LeNell it All

10-02-2010 @3:10PM Mary said... Never drink any vodka except that made from potatoes. It is the best, and real vodka. : )

10-17-2010 @3:05AM byron said... in response to mary: vodka made from potatos IS NOT the pnly real vodka.vodka has been produced throughout Eastern Europe since the middle ages (circa 1000-1300 c.e.), potatos didnt make it to europe until after european discovery and exloration, which (if you dont count viking settlemens or theoretical celtic or chinese visits) we know to have occured in 1492, now given the shipping procedures, it probably took abnout 1-2 hun dred years or there about for the potato to reach east europe. so, prior to its emergence oln the scene, vodka was made with a variety of local grains.

GUESS WHAT PEOPLE, PAYING ATTENTION IN HISTORY CLASS CAN ACTUALLY HELP IN THE REAL WORLD.

10-02-2010 @4:30PM landers37 said... Well said, Rat Fink. I was about to say the same thing, but you explained it quite well.

10-02-2010 @6:34PM DeanC said... The point is, it isn't what you drank first, it is the total of the BAC. I have always drank what I wanted to drink and switch when I want to. I don't get sick until I drink to much.

10-16-2010 @9:20PM Kyle said... Beer before liquor, never been sicker -- liquor before beer, you're in the clear.

Thi statement is not about getting drunk fast. it's about how it mixes in your stumach and how you start to feel sick.

10-16-2010 @9:37PM Matt said... For me (as well with many others I know) when I drink it doesn't matter what is first. I usually tend to drink liqour before beer for the fact that when I drink beer, I drink it kind of fast there for causing a lot of carbination build up in my stomach, as a soda does. If I drink the liqour after and it has the burning sensation or just a cheap nasty tasting liquor like aristocrap, I mean crat, then instead of a belch...Well, you can get the idea. But overall, even if I stay with just one form, or flavor even, if I have enough of course I'll be sick. Some people call it alcohol poising, I just call it piss a** drunk.

10-16-2010 @11:42PM The Truth said... Actually, this was debunked on Mythbusters. Liquor before or beer before made NO difference what-so-ever.

10-17-2010 @6:43AM Jay said... it is actually because if you drink hard liquor first then the beer it tends to foam in your gut causing you to purge from the carbonation

10-17-2010 @12:16AM Mike said... I've heard that a lot of rice is used in brewing Bud and Mich. They always leave me with a headache and fire-ass in the morning where others don't. I try sticking with Guinness nearly always.

10-17-2010 @4:52AM Kare said... People have all kinds of strange beliefs--I think it comes of listening to gossip and rumors and *not* checking them out scientifically.
Howver,there is some bais in fact for some myths--which is how they get repeated.
For instance, as some are saying, it is quite possible that the difference in the rice content or even the origin of the water used in beer *may* make a difference, and may indeed make some people sick or some may be experiencing allergic responses to some ingredients.Some mentioned Budweiser and Michelob makes the sick, but Guiness does not--the ingredients of stout and beer are slightly different for one, but-the alcohol content is *less* than in Budweiser!
I know today everywhere one reads we're told a little red wine is good for us.There's some truth to it.
But when I was much younger, white wine was encouraged as healthier and less fattening.
*I* always found burgundy and Chianti gave me a severe headache(which I know now came from the nitrates in some red wine ).
White wine did *not* give me headaches, as well as, it does truly contain fewer calories.
However, as far as the headaches and hangovers go, I also drank a *lot* of water shortly after beginning to drink white wine, which cut down considerably on one of the main causes of alcohol poisoning and even bad hangovers-- severe dehydration.
Re: the point of *this* article-- someone pointed out that drinking beer for a while, and then later drinking liquor may cause some to have difficulties because they are already on the way to being drunk by then and no longer realize how much they're drinking if they then switch to hard liquor. Good point.
Also, while I don't believe it should make any difference if one "mixes their drinks"(switches drinks) --meaning one switches from whiskey to gin and then back to whisky or another kind of cocktail, the person may feel sick from the actual *ingedients* in the different types of cocktail --*not* because they drank different forms of liquor!
I no longer drink alcohol at all, but when I drank--I really drank.
I usually stuck with one type of drink--not for fear of "mixing" my drinks, or switching, but because if I liked it and could get it *and* afford it--I kept drinking it.
If I drank as much as possible I almost always got drunk,and if I drank whatever was available later--I got drunker and usually got very sick the next day.
However, I was under 23 yrs old, was/am only 5'4" tall, am a small boned female and usually under 135 lbs.
All that booze was hell on my young body , whereas an older and bigger man could have drunk more.But even my boyfriend,who was 6'2' big and broad shouldered, drank enough to get sick the next day --often.
We drank beer, wine and liquor.Very cheaply made wine and liquor can make one sick--obviously increase the amount and the odds increase. Sometimes when I drank just dark beer, but by the pitcher I became *very* ill.
All kinds can and will make you sick if you drink enough.

10-02-2010 @6:14PM Bob said... JH - Perfect! I prefer Boodles, seedless watermelon and St. Pauli Girl Dark in that order. In between I'd like some snitchel and then possibly some apple strudle eaten with a spoon...

10-02-2010 @8:55PM Don said... Hic, hic... Makkee thatt a tri...trip...tripple, pleazeee. (Blaaappp...)