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[-] [email protected] 164 points 1 week ago

For the non-Americans in the audience, what is White Claws?

[-] [email protected] 166 points 1 week ago

Soda water with vodka and a homeopathic amount of fruity flavoring

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

I keep seeing people make fun of it online but that sounds like something I’d enjoy. My drink of choice for a few years now has been the depressing combination of whatever carbonated water is available with whatever better-than-rotgut-but-only-just vodka is available.

Rotgut-tier is also fine in a pinch. But the bad stuff here will make you blind.

(I’m also a fan of “give me your sweetest, fruitiest, girliest drink”, which was great fun back in uni when all the dudes around me were ordering bitter beverages they clearly didn’t enjoy. By trying to project masculinity to the girls around us, they were actually betraying an underlying insecurity about it - and by ordering my girly drink I was gently lampshading that idea. Fun times.)

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

They're delightful. I personally prefer whiskey and when I want carbonated alcohol I tend towards a beer or a bourbon spritzer (or it's wine sibling), but they're easy and refreshing.

And yeah, as a chick who likes neat bourbon, it's amusing seeing men who are clearly uncomfortable with the fact that they don't like stuff like it. Like dude, just order what you like

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

A can of carbonated water with a shot of vodka in it.

Just as much flavour as a typical flavoured carbonated water too

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Just to clarify at least original White Claw gets its alcohol from fermented sugar. It’s basically a gluten free clear beer with no hops and fruit flavor added.

High Noon and anything labeled Vodka soda use actual distilled spirit. Those are more expensive and taste better, especially after a few.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's honestly really refreshing during summer to drink vodka + carbonated water. If it's really hot (or I'm super full of food) I don't want much taste and carbonated water does a good job of hiding away the vodka taste.

It's a common drink in Finland, Koskenkorva vodka and vichy (water)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Found the husband!

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Basically flavoured water with alcohol.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

And bubbles

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

White claw is a drink that comes in vaguely energy-drink looking cans, tastes bad (if it has any flavor at all), and has a slight alcohol content.

In fairness, my opinion of flavor should be taken with a grain of salt (lol) because I really dislike the taste of alcohol and am honestly surprised anyone could drink even a low percentage without recognizing ethanol’s horrible flavor.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Huh, you may be surprised to hear, but I actually LIKE the taste of ethanol in many drinks.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Ethanol is also grest for extracting flavours from various fruits and herbs.

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[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago

In the 19th century all kinds of “snake oil” mixtures were sold as pain killers and energy tonics. The vast majority were just something suspended in alcohol. Alcohol dulls pain and makes you feel a rush of euphoria. So people thought it was “medicine.”

It continues to this day. My wife was convinced that a certain kombucha was benefitting her gut microbiome in some profound way because it made her feel so great to drink it. Turns out the brand got in trouble - their process was letting through 1.5-2% alcohol (yes my wife is a lightweight).

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

We like to talk about drugs like there's this clear delineation between something that is and isn't medicine... but it really comes down to the situation and the dosage.

For much of history and in most places, liquor was the most effective painkiller available. More recently, fentanyl started as a synthetic, medical grade painkiller. It's still widely used across hospitals for that. Before synthetics, it was opium (otherwise known as heroin), derived from poppy plants.

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago

If a 12 oz can at 5% ABV once per day makes you feel liver pain, there's probably something wrong with your liver, and maybe the drinking life isn't for you.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

It's fine, I'll just take more Tylenol to deal with the pain.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Just drink Painquil! It's acetaminophen, and it's 10% alcohol! The old liver double whammy.

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[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I did the same almost, bought weird new energy drinks, was about to drink one at work, looked at the can better, 5,5% alcohol. Whoops.

Drank it on the drive home instead, naturally

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

Why the fuck are you drinking alcohol and driving?

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago

If god didn't want us to drink and drive then why'd he invent those nifty beer can hats?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Don't even have to stop driving to top up. I couldn't find a picture for the one I've seen with bait, liquor, and ammo sold in the drivethru.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

If they get past a 0.07 with 1 white claw, I envy their lack of tolerance induced financial burdens and I hope they have a great time where nobody gets hurt but I also hope they know their limit and never drink and drive because we all share the road and a drunk driver probably won't end up killing the person who doesn't understand that the left lane is for crime that really ruins the buzz on my drive home.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I had already opedened it, what else was I supposed to do, pour it out?? How wasteful smdh fr

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Insane that you're getting downvoted for this. I feel like alcohol abuse is so normalised in a lot of places. This really shouldn't be a controversial comment.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

One of my American colleagues in Japan once got written up because he didn’t know chūhai was alcoholic. It came in a can with colourful fruits on it on a shelf next to the coke.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

tell me how these weren't designed to give alcoholics plausible deniability lol

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Oh, I thought they were designed to give alcoholics heart attacks

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Naw, the industry basically self-regulated itself out of mixing alcohol and caffeine after all the Four Loko incidents. The labeling is just for brand loyalists or something now, idk

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Never been ID’ed for an energy drink.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Be glad you don't live in the UK then. You have to be able to prove that you're over 16, or 18 - I forget which. Luckily I don't have to worry about that being 27, but it does get annoying when I forget about it and take a monster through the self checkouts. Normally I have to wait maybe 5 minutes for the overworked employee to notice me and authorize the purchase.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

They did this in Sweden too. Then people stopped buying energy drinks, because most people self checkout and you had to wait for an employee to come check that you are an adult. And swedes being swedes, they would rather die than go through that.

Now they have a permanent employee checking from afar with a tablet, approving people without any intervention or interruption. I wouldnt be surprised if the energy drink brands partially pay for them.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Energy drinks are pretty bad for you though. Probably should do the same thing in the US.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Honestly caffeine should be age restricted to like 15+. Its a very addictive psychoactive drug.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Ain't no open container laws when you're drinkin' claws.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Do people not read the package at all for the food they consume? It says right on the front the alcohol content.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Put it near enough to the energy drink case in the convenience store, and this kind of mixup seems plausible.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It's not easy to tell the difference between a can of kombucha and a can of thc sparkling juice at first glance either. Both have similar designs.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Watched my boss drink one of those and a red bull at the same time. Regular thing for her apparently.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Bet he’s been having a very good work time though.

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