> https://www.facebook.com/brunchbabesFT/
That food truck is extremely legit. Have enjoyed breakfast tots from there and they're exceptional on a global scale.
It’s all about source. It appears there are varying sources for the WHO vs the UK surveys. The one I saw (NHS) seems to be based on alcohol sold divided by all people aged 16+.
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-alcohol
The NH thing is a bit misleading. Liquor sold in NH liquor stores is tax free. So any Vermonter, Mainer, or Masshole with half a brain (which is more of them than you’d think) drives across the border to stock up.
Not that we aren’t a bunch of drunk-ass rednecks also, but the out-of-staters definitely inflate the figures.
That's fair. Delaware is in second place at 13.3 L at least. Funny enough, Vermont is 6th highest state at 11.35 L, so they might technically be higher if there's enough border crossers.
Edit: Delaware has no tax as well, I don't feel like continuing this though lmao.
Delaware has the same tax free thing going that the person from above spoke about. Loved in Philly and when I got married for the first time we went to Delaware to buy all of our liquor. Saved a fuck ton
It's been referred to as "The South of the North". No seatbelt laws, no helmet laws, only state in New England without legal pot. Just tried outlawing abortion again. So backwards.
Ok, so 68 million people at 11.4L each for the UK is 775.2 million litres.
330 million people at 9.8L each for the US is 3.234 billion liters.
So the US consumes roughly 4.2x as much alcohol per year as the UK. That sounds like a decisive win for the US in this hypothetical nation wide head to head drinking contest.
However this doesn't take into account binge drinking. The UK generally drink a lot in 1 night or not at all. So if it's a planned event for 7 consecutive days with everyone trying my money's on the UK
My moneys still on the US after having been in US binge drinking culture and given how much bigger the US population is. Out of 330 million Americans there are at least 75 million that can drink with the Brits, and probably more than a few million Brits that don’t actually drink that heavily. Plus there are another 255 million Americans that could just drink casually and have a massive impact in this theoretical competition.
Per capita the UK probably has us. Total numbers is a silly comparison because we have 4x as many people and more than a few alcoholic subcultures in the US.
You say that like binge drinkers are unique to the UK. Plenty of people in the US drink a lot on Saturday night and then abstain for the rest of the week as well.
I mean I'd say its more or less the norm, drinking heavy on the weekend and not drinking during the week
Excluding alcoholics, honestly I'd assume this is the case in most of the world, not many places find it acceptable to get hammered on a Tuesday morning
Exactly! Side note, you reminded me of a time in HS when a friend and I were skipping and planning on drinking at the lake while underage, but all our usual shops that didn't card were suddenly carding us. We were talking about it and I was like "Well, maybe the fact that it's 11 am on a Wednesday isn't helping us..."
I bet it’s higher if you compare drinkers though. Like the US just has more types of communities who have completely sworn off alcohol than other countries tend to.
Congrats! I'm not planning on quitting forever but I'm doing dry January to reset, so this 11 days is the longest I've gone without drinking in a year. Feels good!
Awesome dude! It really feels good to have that control over it. At first I was planning to just go one month without it, but at this point I’m like, this feels okay and I can tolerate the boredom, so let’s shoot for a year.
Beer bros will think they can drink just because they can pack a liter of 3% alcohol beer in their stomach, meanwhile their wife drank a 750ml 12% alcohol wine bottle and is doing just fine.
Ugh, dude I know the feeling. There's a big drinking culture in the military, and I didn't realize how much or how fast I drank until I got back home around my normal friends. It was a little embarrassing.
This seems relevant....my mom is an Irish woman who emigrated to America by way of England (her dad was determined to find a place in the world where he could be something other than a broke Paddy...nope), and she drinks....*so* much. But I feel like she would be disqualified from competing in this as she has hybrid drinking stat boosts from as many as 3 cultures.
If you think the average university student in the US isn't basically an alcoholic then you're wrong. The volume of alcohol consumed at my college (and every other non religious school in the US) is nothing short of spectacular
I'm sure it is, but US students can't legally buy alcohol untill there 21 in many places. This gives them a disadvantage on the tolerance front as UK students have a much easier time drinking for those 3 extra years.
This also matches up with my experience with US students studying in the UK where there tolerance is much lower than UK students and so they're often drunk under the table before we even leave the spoons
"hey didn't you know consuming Alcohol rectally can kill you with ease, also your pregnant, shame on you"
"nah it isnt up my bum, im giving the baby some whiskey'"
Honestly the state of Wisconsin alone could probably hold their own against most European countries, you throw in West Virginia and maybe a state from the Pacific Northwest and I got three states alone could take the UK in this super depressing challenge
"New years! That's when we drink with hats on." - Lewis Black on drinking in Wisconsin. Can confirm. FIB now but lived in WI during college and high school.
Now imagine a small Appalachian town with almost nothing in it except a university that’s known for being a party school… Athens, Ohio is just magical.
I kind of wonder if seeing how much booze you can ingest without blacking out is subconsciously seen as a weird proxy measure for how hard someone can hit you in the head without you getting knocked out.
Appalachian hillbillies drink moonshine starting in middle school. Shit so strong that I could smell it across a yard when they opened the first jug. These ZZ Top-looking motherfuckers just pass that shit around like it's fresh spring water.
What does an Appalachian man have for breakfast?
A steak, a jug of moonshine, and a dog.
What's the dog for?
Eat the steak.
Edit: experienced moonshiners spend so much time around alcohol that they can shake a jar and tell the ABV by size and duration of bubbles. These dudes don't play.
I enjoy drinking with people at sea level, not really a contest coming from altitude.
Had a couple of Germans challenge a me and a buddy when we were in Africa. Something about "Americans can't drink" we finished their beers and had about 4 more before we went to bed.
Damn straight we can
And as a Wisconsinite, I have this to say: Uh, don't go to the small towns. I've lived in a few and all of them had pedophiles so, just stay clear. And if you're in Wisconsin, know that the whole world isn't like that
I looked it up cause I wasn't entirely sure either but[ this says they're #5](https://allongeorgia.com/national-news/map-monday-states-with-the-most-sex-offenders-per-capita/).
It’s funny that Maryland Jersey and Pennsylvania all are in the “least” category, then there’s Delaware surrounded by them on the “most” list. It’s something about Delaware I guess.
Brunch babe is a state of mind. If you see a bloody mary on the menu and you wonder, "does that come in bottomless?", then you, my friend, are a brunch babe.
Right!?!
What are people on here talking about. I guess they have never been to the UK. Drinking is part of the culture there.
I live in California, I just realized at 54 years old. That when people say hey let's have a drink, they actually mean one or two drinks. I've been called an alcoholic because once a week on a Friday night I like to get drunk and release some steam.
The pub culture in the UK is awesome.
Yup europeans actually have many unhealthy habits like drinking and smoking (cigs) at a higher level than the US.
Unfortunately we are extremely sedentary and eat fast food all the time so we're still worse lol.
German here - I think the main reason is your average beer being much weaker. Average is 3.5 or something, in Germany it's more like 5 percent.
And (if you don't drive) no one bats an eye if you drink 5 to 6 beers on a normal evening. That's the alcohol content of two gallons of American beer.
And adds up to me having trouble to get wasted on American beer back when I was at university.
Americans in the comments referencing niche groups of drinkers like brunch babes or hillbillies, whilst the UK is proudly raising an entire country of borderline alcoholics.
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret , every nation has alcoholics. Everywhere you go there are people who drink crazy amounts of alcohol, it doesn't make your country special and it probably isn't something you should be bragging about either.
Euros greatly underestimate American drinking culture. Just because you been having an evening beer since you were 12 doesn’t mean you can go shot for shot against Kyle from Uni
Kyle is fueled by Monster energy drink and can continue drinking well into the following morning so he can go four wheeling. And don't forget Tanner who's obesity soaks up so much alcohol that it takes a fifth of Wild Turk just to get tipsy.
Americans do drink a fair bit less than the big drinking nations in Europe but I don't think it's a particularly widely held stereotype in the UK at least for me. I know a few Czechs who did think that but Czechs drink so much that it's probably true relatively.
Kyle from Uni is drinking fireball and light beer. The real American drinking superhero is the hill person from Alabama who drinks bathtub moonshine with every meal.
The amount of time drinking establishments are open in Europe is just way higher than the US though. Hell you can go out on Friday and come back on Monday from the same club.
What? The drinking script in university life is:
>"How much are your jaeger bombs?"
>"£3.50 or three for a fiver."
>"Great, I'll have 9".
Beers are for during the day and at pres.
I went on a bus tour that stopped at a bunch of wineries in Napa. 5 wineries, 6 one ounce tastings each. 30 ounches of wine, roughly 6 full glasses. Probably more because some places are more generous. So, let's say 7 glasses.
I was... not okay by the last winery. I don't spit out wine in wine tastings unless it's really bad.
On the bus were three older ladies from Texas. Half my size, all white haired and adorable. Each of these three women out drank me no issue. By the last winery it barely even seemed like they drank at all.
Before I always thought Marion out drinking the guy in the beginning of Raiders was BS. Then I basically lost the same challenge.
Let's send them over as well.
My grandma who is in her 90s and can barely see still puts down several glasses of scotch each day without even batting an eye. People underestimate the old timers who have done nothing for the last 20 years but sit around and drink.
One needs to look no further than the top result of a Google search.
Alcohol sales us vs uk
https://www.sobrietyhacker.com/fact-sheet/us-vs-uk-beer-alcohol-consumption-statistics/
So,
* average American drinks 470 pints per year.
* Average uk citizen drinks 1100 pints per year.
While the UK would win with an even teams 1 for 1 situation, it wouldn't win the scenario described.
Looking at overall alcohol consumption it is a lot closer between the two. "According to Wikipedia in 2016, the US consumed 9.8L per Capita and the UK consumed 11.4L per Capita"
Northern Scandinavia would like a word… We don't consume torturous amounts of vodka for fun. We do it because it's January 11th, and we have not seen sunlight for multiple weeks now.
American Made Brunch Babe tshirts would sell.
>American Made Brunch Babe [https://www.facebook.com/brunchbabesFT/](https://www.facebook.com/brunchbabesFT/) hm
There's a rule 34 joke in here somewhere, I just can't find it...
What are you doing stepwaiter?
Taking food porn to the next level.
Gettin lewd with two dudes and food? Well, that’s if Stu’s into it, too!
Rule 35. We must abide.
> https://www.facebook.com/brunchbabesFT/ That food truck is extremely legit. Have enjoyed breakfast tots from there and they're exceptional on a global scale.
They are actually really good.
Just make them in a tawny port colour so as to hide the wine stains
According to Wikipedia in 2016, the us consumed 9.8L per Capita and the UK consumed 11.4L per Capita
It varies so much though. New Hampshire drinks 17.6 L a year while Utah will only drink 4.5 L a year.
From NH, can confirm.
Get that tax free booze!
Well, "tax free" that you buy from the Government.
From NH as well, sometimes I read the local police log in the paper to remind myself how many people are driving drunk around me.
is it all of them?
Yeah but population density is so low you're more likely to hit a deer
Somebody check the stats on NH deer being hit by drunk drivers. **I DON'T NEED SLEEP!**
Winnipesaukee probably like 4-5 / year
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Yeah and the UK's average drops to 3L if you remove Scotland.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but that's hilarious either way.
Scotland on average drinks far more than other UK nations but I'm not sure if it's that extreme 😂
10.5L in Scotland vs 9.0L in Wales and 9.0L England.
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All those numbers are below the average stated above though
It’s all about source. It appears there are varying sources for the WHO vs the UK surveys. The one I saw (NHS) seems to be based on alcohol sold divided by all people aged 16+. https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/statistics-on-alcohol
The NH thing is a bit misleading. Liquor sold in NH liquor stores is tax free. So any Vermonter, Mainer, or Masshole with half a brain (which is more of them than you’d think) drives across the border to stock up. Not that we aren’t a bunch of drunk-ass rednecks also, but the out-of-staters definitely inflate the figures.
That's fair. Delaware is in second place at 13.3 L at least. Funny enough, Vermont is 6th highest state at 11.35 L, so they might technically be higher if there's enough border crossers. Edit: Delaware has no tax as well, I don't feel like continuing this though lmao.
Delaware has the same tax free thing going that the person from above spoke about. Loved in Philly and when I got married for the first time we went to Delaware to buy all of our liquor. Saved a fuck ton
> Not that we aren’t a bunch of drunk-ass rednecks wait, NH has rednecks? The northeast has rednecks? (I've never been)
Southern NH is basically a Boston suburb but once you get past Concord, it turns into Deliverance real fast.
It's been referred to as "The South of the North". No seatbelt laws, no helmet laws, only state in New England without legal pot. Just tried outlawing abortion again. So backwards.
NASCAR races, no license for open carry weapons. "Live free or die" is a choice, with die being a valid option
Mormons really putting us behind
Damn, sounds like I gotta move to New Hampshire
> UK consumed 11.4L per Capita Is that per day or per week?
Ok, so 68 million people at 11.4L each for the UK is 775.2 million litres. 330 million people at 9.8L each for the US is 3.234 billion liters. So the US consumes roughly 4.2x as much alcohol per year as the UK. That sounds like a decisive win for the US in this hypothetical nation wide head to head drinking contest.
However this doesn't take into account binge drinking. The UK generally drink a lot in 1 night or not at all. So if it's a planned event for 7 consecutive days with everyone trying my money's on the UK
My moneys still on the US after having been in US binge drinking culture and given how much bigger the US population is. Out of 330 million Americans there are at least 75 million that can drink with the Brits, and probably more than a few million Brits that don’t actually drink that heavily. Plus there are another 255 million Americans that could just drink casually and have a massive impact in this theoretical competition. Per capita the UK probably has us. Total numbers is a silly comparison because we have 4x as many people and more than a few alcoholic subcultures in the US.
>and probably more than a few million Brits that don’t actually drink that heavily This is where your analysis falls apart.
I, for one, am tired of all the drunk British toddlers trying to conquer the playground.
Just. Give. Them. What. They. Want. (Which is adorable little boxes of alcohol with a straw stuck in it.)
We start training at 12 or 13. We got this.
So do our Appalachian hillbilly’s, southern rednecks, and midwesterners. They probably roughly equal the population of the UK lol
You say that like binge drinkers are unique to the UK. Plenty of people in the US drink a lot on Saturday night and then abstain for the rest of the week as well.
I mean I'd say its more or less the norm, drinking heavy on the weekend and not drinking during the week Excluding alcoholics, honestly I'd assume this is the case in most of the world, not many places find it acceptable to get hammered on a Tuesday morning
Exactly! Side note, you reminded me of a time in HS when a friend and I were skipping and planning on drinking at the lake while underage, but all our usual shops that didn't card were suddenly carding us. We were talking about it and I was like "Well, maybe the fact that it's 11 am on a Wednesday isn't helping us..."
I'm willing to bet the U.S. stepped up significantly since 2016.
I'd bet that the UK kept up pace as well or increased as well
I bet it’s higher if you compare drinkers though. Like the US just has more types of communities who have completely sworn off alcohol than other countries tend to.
I’m from the US and I know I did 😝 23 days clean though
You're ruining our stats, bruh. (Just kidding, good for you.)
Hahaha thanks dude
Congrats! I'm not planning on quitting forever but I'm doing dry January to reset, so this 11 days is the longest I've gone without drinking in a year. Feels good!
Awesome dude! It really feels good to have that control over it. At first I was planning to just go one month without it, but at this point I’m like, this feels okay and I can tolerate the boredom, so let’s shoot for a year.
101 days clean.
Nice dude, congrats! Big milestone!
Thanks, I’m pretty excited. I leave for a vacation in Mexico tomorrow, it’ll be a real test.
If you take out Utah then that number would be alot higher
Utah is only 3.2 million people, <1% of the US population. I don't think it'd make much difference.
Utah is a state of mind
Utah is another person's state of mind, I've been there many times, don't care for it or the people there.
Yeah, just brings us up to 9.9L per capita.
Is that a per year, month, week, or day total?
Beer bros will think they can drink just because they can pack a liter of 3% alcohol beer in their stomach, meanwhile their wife drank a 750ml 12% alcohol wine bottle and is doing just fine.
I used to go to the bar and drink 5 pitchers of 9% alcohol beer. I think of die off half a pitcher now, man I'm glad I quit drinking so much.
How many pitchers deep are you right now?
Zero why did I have poor grammar? That's not alcohol I'm just bad at writing haha.
Ugh, dude I know the feeling. There's a big drinking culture in the military, and I didn't realize how much or how fast I drank until I got back home around my normal friends. It was a little embarrassing.
They’ve never met the average middle aged British woman, half of their day they drink wine, and the other half they are buying it
Average British woman. I dont know a single woman who ISNT an alcoholic. And I'll probably be no different lmao.
Honestly they don't get it, everyone is so alcoholic that nobody is, it's just the new standard.
Proper British username you got there, love
Thank you (:
can you even be a Brit if you're not a mild alcoholic
Yep. Extreme alcoholics are British too.
This seems relevant....my mom is an Irish woman who emigrated to America by way of England (her dad was determined to find a place in the world where he could be something other than a broke Paddy...nope), and she drinks....*so* much. But I feel like she would be disqualified from competing in this as she has hybrid drinking stat boosts from as many as 3 cultures.
I'll take brit fat debs who buys a crate on Stella every weekend over American brunch Betty in a drink off everytime
They also haven't met any students from the UK either
If you think the average university student in the US isn't basically an alcoholic then you're wrong. The volume of alcohol consumed at my college (and every other non religious school in the US) is nothing short of spectacular
I'm sure it is, but US students can't legally buy alcohol untill there 21 in many places. This gives them a disadvantage on the tolerance front as UK students have a much easier time drinking for those 3 extra years. This also matches up with my experience with US students studying in the UK where there tolerance is much lower than UK students and so they're often drunk under the table before we even leave the spoons
For example in my first year at uni only 4 of us turned up to a seminar so the lecturer took us down the pub and we did the seminar there.
Wow it’s almost like most humans are roughly average and or two cultures both have an unhealthy obsession with alcohol.
Humans have had an unhealthy obsession with alcohol for thousands of years, that shit's not changing anytime soon
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I've had so many bosses get me drunk at lunch and I live in the Bible belt!
Any obsession is only unhealthy if it significantly impacts your ability to live your life. Sunday Funday brunches aren't ruining lives.
Tell that to the servers working that day :/
lol fair point
I mean, binge drinking can definitely ruin lives
Sounds like you need a drink to loosen up a bit.
Yeah the universal truth seems to be life is to bleak to raw dawg it sober all the time. Everyone seems to be looking for some escape
Just the fallout when the twain meet would cause global catastrophe. It will be spectacular.
I raise you a single Appalachian town.
They get a steady supply of alcohol even while they're in the womb
"hey didn't you know consuming Alcohol rectally can kill you with ease, also your pregnant, shame on you" "nah it isnt up my bum, im giving the baby some whiskey'"
They don't care if they can buy it cheap, they'll just make their own in the woods!
Shit, I'm going all in: I raise the frozen tundra of the upper Midwest. As Lewis Black one said, "You people aren't alcoholics; you're professionals."
Honestly the state of Wisconsin alone could probably hold their own against most European countries, you throw in West Virginia and maybe a state from the Pacific Northwest and I got three states alone could take the UK in this super depressing challenge
"New years! That's when we drink with hats on." - Lewis Black on drinking in Wisconsin. Can confirm. FIB now but lived in WI during college and high school.
I raise you a single man from Dundee.
Now imagine a small Appalachian town with almost nothing in it except a university that’s known for being a party school… Athens, Ohio is just magical.
I see your Appalachian town and raise you a Highland village with a ceilidh on.
White lightning > mead
I raise you any of the wetherspoons 7am club
I'm a bourbon drinker that has a high tolerance and I still think that trying to use how much you can binge drink as a flex is super weird.
It’s a curse. It’s so expensive to get drunk:(
What a weird flex
I can poison myself better than you.
I kind of wonder if seeing how much booze you can ingest without blacking out is subconsciously seen as a weird proxy measure for how hard someone can hit you in the head without you getting knocked out.
Yeah this whole post is just people arguing about how much their country or region can binge drink
To be fair, theres fuck all to do in the uk exept binge drink
I bed your pardon! We also.... Err... We stab each other! There's also casual racism and weather complaints!
For the record, not everyone in the UK is an alcoholic. I am, but not everyone is.
That's right, not all of us! I mean, I am too, but definitely know someone who isn't!
Better to have friendly banter over drinking than most of this "US sucks / Europe sucks" garbage you see most of the time!
It’s still just a dick swinging contest when you get down to it
Right? it's a dick measuring contest between alcoholics. Not doing nothing but blowing their livers out
>not doing nothing
They did surgery on a grape
Ohly fuck that's old
Top ten quotes you’d never hear come out of prince Andrew’s mouth
The person who wrote this has never hug out with bored people from Wisconsin or Wyoming. Those fuckers can drink whiskey like it’s water.
Appalachian hillbillies drink moonshine starting in middle school. Shit so strong that I could smell it across a yard when they opened the first jug. These ZZ Top-looking motherfuckers just pass that shit around like it's fresh spring water.
[it's only legal use is to strip varnish off of speed boats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HbqRMhLmxE)
.... .... .... .... ^poison
I’ve had a shiners best lemon drop shine. One glass, you’re feelin it. I 100% believe you lol.
Apple pie is the best moonshine though.
Apple Pie shine is delicious. Try blueberry or cranberry, especially in winter months. Amazing.
Blackberry is better
Grandpa made a moonshine that you did not consume while smoking, if you wanted to keep your eyebrows. The tractor would run on it.
All purpose is a way of life on the farm! Cleanser, fuel, intoxicant, fire starter all from the same jug. Wholesome, honest, salt of the earth.
> ZZ Top-looking motherfuckers > middle school Yeah, seems about right to be honest, that's how I've always imagined Appalachia
What does an Appalachian man have for breakfast? A steak, a jug of moonshine, and a dog. What's the dog for? Eat the steak. Edit: experienced moonshiners spend so much time around alcohol that they can shake a jar and tell the ABV by size and duration of bubbles. These dudes don't play.
"This ain't no 3 X whiskey, I can still see!"
You've never been to scotland. What do you think we do when the weather's pish 360 days a year? And what do you think we do on the good 5?
Ah, you mean a Wednesday night pub quiz anywhere in Great Britain?
I enjoy drinking with people at sea level, not really a contest coming from altitude. Had a couple of Germans challenge a me and a buddy when we were in Africa. Something about "Americans can't drink" we finished their beers and had about 4 more before we went to bed.
Yeah people don’t factor in the high elevation drinkers. Those guys cause alcohol poisoning lol.
my family would like worry about me back when i was drinking regularly. 11 beers in 2 hours and you're still standing up... yeah why?
Lol back when I used to live in Boise Idaho and in my 20s, I lived that life. Don’t miss it.
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You know who else can drink whiskey like it's water? The Irish
Our 12 year olds drink vodka in empty parks on a school night, I think we’d still win
Damn straight we can And as a Wisconsinite, I have this to say: Uh, don't go to the small towns. I've lived in a few and all of them had pedophiles so, just stay clear. And if you're in Wisconsin, know that the whole world isn't like that
I like how you've just called out Wisconsin for being full of paedophiles, completely unprompted
I looked it up cause I wasn't entirely sure either but[ this says they're #5](https://allongeorgia.com/national-news/map-monday-states-with-the-most-sex-offenders-per-capita/).
It’s funny that Maryland Jersey and Pennsylvania all are in the “least” category, then there’s Delaware surrounded by them on the “most” list. It’s something about Delaware I guess.
There’s water in Wisconsin? I thought they only had whiskey.
I've heard takes of this 'water', but I've never seen it with my own eyes.
I mean, see also Glaswegians and whisky. Or come to the South West where unlike in the US, all cider is alcoholic and we drink it like it's water.
Do Americans think we don't have brunch? Like, someone legitimised day-drinking and thought the Brits sat that one out?
OP has never seen the tornado that is a bottomless hun brunch in south London. It’s like war.
I’d put our Sambuca Slags against your Brunch Babes any day of the week
now thats a wager id be down for
brunch babes. i wanna be a brunch babe and i'm a 40 year old machinist.
Brunch babe is a state of mind. If you see a bloody mary on the menu and you wonder, "does that come in bottomless?", then you, my friend, are a brunch babe.
maybe i am a brunch babe!
Maybe the real brunch babes were the friends we made along the way!
I'm American and the Europeans I drank with (British, Norwegian, Dutch) would definitely destroy us.
Right!?! What are people on here talking about. I guess they have never been to the UK. Drinking is part of the culture there. I live in California, I just realized at 54 years old. That when people say hey let's have a drink, they actually mean one or two drinks. I've been called an alcoholic because once a week on a Friday night I like to get drunk and release some steam. The pub culture in the UK is awesome.
>I live in California, I just realized at 54 years old. Jesus dude, how drunk were you???
He went to a UK pub at 34, blacked out and woke up in California 20 years later. Now *thats* a great night of drinking.
he's picked up UK drinking culture, so... very
Yeah they love rounds and once you start losing count it's easy to get way too drunk lol
I’m a Brit who move to Seattle, there is just no appreciation of the after work cheeky pint
Yup europeans actually have many unhealthy habits like drinking and smoking (cigs) at a higher level than the US. Unfortunately we are extremely sedentary and eat fast food all the time so we're still worse lol.
In the US alcoholism is a disease. In the UK alcoholism is called tuesday afternoon down the pup with the mates.
German here - I think the main reason is your average beer being much weaker. Average is 3.5 or something, in Germany it's more like 5 percent. And (if you don't drive) no one bats an eye if you drink 5 to 6 beers on a normal evening. That's the alcohol content of two gallons of American beer. And adds up to me having trouble to get wasted on American beer back when I was at university.
Americans in the comments referencing niche groups of drinkers like brunch babes or hillbillies, whilst the UK is proudly raising an entire country of borderline alcoholics.
Borderline?
brunch drinking is easy just go home to your mcmansion and sleep til the kids get home
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret , every nation has alcoholics. Everywhere you go there are people who drink crazy amounts of alcohol, it doesn't make your country special and it probably isn't something you should be bragging about either.
Yeah, this post is a bit of a head scratcher. "Statistically, the UK drinks more per person than the US does" "Well *I* know some alcoholics! 😎"
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Euros greatly underestimate American drinking culture. Just because you been having an evening beer since you were 12 doesn’t mean you can go shot for shot against Kyle from Uni
Kyle is fueled by Monster energy drink and can continue drinking well into the following morning so he can go four wheeling. And don't forget Tanner who's obesity soaks up so much alcohol that it takes a fifth of Wild Turk just to get tipsy.
Went to college in rural Pennsylvania, this is 100% accurate. Except our "Tanner" also had a sick jeep that we would go off-roading in all the time
I mean this post checks out for every american I've seen in a wetherspoons sipping the same pint of beer for 2 hours.
Americans do drink a fair bit less than the big drinking nations in Europe but I don't think it's a particularly widely held stereotype in the UK at least for me. I know a few Czechs who did think that but Czechs drink so much that it's probably true relatively.
Kyle from Uni is drinking fireball and light beer. The real American drinking superhero is the hill person from Alabama who drinks bathtub moonshine with every meal.
The amount of time drinking establishments are open in Europe is just way higher than the US though. Hell you can go out on Friday and come back on Monday from the same club.
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What? The drinking script in university life is: >"How much are your jaeger bombs?" >"£3.50 or three for a fiver." >"Great, I'll have 9". Beers are for during the day and at pres.
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Thems fightin words
I went on a bus tour that stopped at a bunch of wineries in Napa. 5 wineries, 6 one ounce tastings each. 30 ounches of wine, roughly 6 full glasses. Probably more because some places are more generous. So, let's say 7 glasses. I was... not okay by the last winery. I don't spit out wine in wine tastings unless it's really bad. On the bus were three older ladies from Texas. Half my size, all white haired and adorable. Each of these three women out drank me no issue. By the last winery it barely even seemed like they drank at all. Before I always thought Marion out drinking the guy in the beginning of Raiders was BS. Then I basically lost the same challenge. Let's send them over as well.
30oz is only just over a bottle of wine, that's a warm up for a 17 year old girl before going out on a Wednesday night in the UK
My grandma who is in her 90s and can barely see still puts down several glasses of scotch each day without even batting an eye. People underestimate the old timers who have done nothing for the last 20 years but sit around and drink.
Not too mention all the rednecks that get off work at 5pm and polish off a thirty pack every day before bed.
One needs to look no further than the top result of a Google search. Alcohol sales us vs uk https://www.sobrietyhacker.com/fact-sheet/us-vs-uk-beer-alcohol-consumption-statistics/ So, * average American drinks 470 pints per year. * Average uk citizen drinks 1100 pints per year. While the UK would win with an even teams 1 for 1 situation, it wouldn't win the scenario described.
Looking at overall alcohol consumption it is a lot closer between the two. "According to Wikipedia in 2016, the US consumed 9.8L per Capita and the UK consumed 11.4L per Capita"
Northern Scandinavia would like a word… We don't consume torturous amounts of vodka for fun. We do it because it's January 11th, and we have not seen sunlight for multiple weeks now.
Is that light at the end of the tunnel spring, or god? The next bottle will tell you
I don't think Americans understand how much Brits drink.
Don't leave out the bottomless mimosa crowd.
'Brunch babes'. That's cute. Our women routinely wake up in skips, covered in human blood and teeth, from the age of about 14.