Today I Learned

Oh no, it's definitely the zoomers for this one. Millennials were big on cocktails.

Millennials taking credit for doing nothing, story at 11

For me, it was the colon cancer....

Yeah, while I'm happy that this is making my favorite stuff cheaper, it's still very expensive. Blanton's was selling for $120/bottle just last year if you could even find it in my area, but I can find it in a regular grocery store for $80 now. EH Taylor went from $100/bottle and hard to find to $60 and all over the place. That's WAY more affordable but also still really damn expensive compared to Buffalo Trace (all three of these brands are from the same parent company and from roughly the same recipe and source ingredients).

Scotch is slightly cheaper now, too. Dalmore 15 was selling for $120 last year and is around $100 now. Two years ago, Dalmore King Alexander was $340 but can be found in the grocery store for $280 now.

What I haven't seen yet is a drop in price of Burgundy. I can't afford to pay $300/bottle for a Nuits-Saint-George Gran Cru.

Even looking away from luxury booze brands, the cost of cocktails is also very high. I have to pay $21 for a cocktail at a moderately priced restaurant in my area.

I remember my dad saying when he started going to bars with his friends they would have beers because they were half the price of cocktails that were 3 bucks. Now a beer is ten bucks with a tip. Who the fuck wants to pay that?

I want to say no.....but I don't have any way to know that I'm right. I'd assume the number of young drunk drivers has gone down. And I assume drunk driving will go down drastically once the boomers start their giant death toll numbers. But that'll be over the next 20 years. My mom is 80. My grandma lived to be 103. The youngest boomers are 60.

But again, I have zero clue how right I am.

A long time ago I saw a website that had a sort of humorous dictionary on it. The entry for DEA always stuck with me:

D.E.A. - Distiller's Enforcent Apparatus. An army of masked thugs licensed to rob, defame, kidnap or kill those suspected of preferring other drugs over alcohol.

They're also responsible for anti-cannabis legislation.

Two things can be harmful to health at the same time. Both cannabis and alcohol have negative effects to your health.

Almost certainly. They don't want people to be able to have a fun buzz with out consequences the next day legally.

Nah. We stopped buying American, and instead we buy Canada and Scotland and New Zealand alcohol products. It's not a reduction, just a delicious shift.

Scotland is seeing a huge drop in scotch sales, and France is seeing a huge drop in wine sales. Even though the US producers are seeing a bigger drop due to Canada's boycott, the rest of the world is also seeing a drop even accounting for the Canadian shift to their products.

It's unrelated since this is about global attitude changes towards alcohol. US brands weren't the only ones impacted.

The younger generations just aren't drinking as much as previous ones.

Honestly. Ozempic and friends may be a big part of this.

Sanitation, whether an ACTUAL bot or not, is basically a reddit repost bot, yes.

I was on a public transportation city bus, and this guy just took out a vape, and started smoking. I'm like "There's no smoking on the bus", and he just starts laughing and acting like I'm an asshole. Saying vape smoke isn't unhealthy.

I'm not a smoker, but my mom was. Guess who got cancer from second hand smoke, because in the 80s, everyone said "second hand smoke idn't unhealthy".

Yeah, but I'M the asshole for not wanting to breathe vape smoke in a place where it's illegal to vape.

I bet it won't.

Why not both?

Gen z aren't big drinkers. Hell, even Millenials drink less than Z or boomers. We got therapy now instead of social alcoholism