For the non-Americans in the audience, what is White Claws?
Soda water with vodka and a homeopathic amount of fruity flavoring
Bet he was full of pep when he got to work.
Sounds good – my go-to drink at my local is a vodka and soda with a lime wedge. (Occasionally will get a vodka and tonic with a twist if I’m feeling daring.)
No hate, its just a drink for me. Other people enjoying it doesnt hurt me
Vodka seltzer
An energy drink
Found the husband!
“Hard seltzer.” fruit scented fizz water with a little booze in it, marketed mainly to women.
with a little booze in it
I’ve never heard of this drink before, but I’ve looked it up and it’s 5% ABV. That’s not “a little” booze; that’s the same as a premium beer.
I find it interesting to hear 5% ABV beer being described as “premium”. Here (Canada) it’s basically the standard for every macrobrew lager, or around 4% for their light varieties. More high-end, craft beers will vary between 3% and 10% depending on the type of beer.
It’s just old fashioned terminology. 4% was the strength of a standard bitter or lager, round about 5% a premium bitter or lager.
The UK doesn’t use the term “light beer”, so you can probably just think of it as being the equivalent to that distinction.
Obviously there are some wildly strong craft beers out there these days, but the lingo still is what it is.
And confusingly in Australia ‘Light’ beer is low alcohol (~3.5%) and in the USA ‘Light’ is low-flavour. I think many australians have been caught off gaurd by going to the US and drinking bud light thinking ‘these soda-water beers really go to your head’
Maybe Europe? US mostly you have domestic big box shit that is 5 and 4.2% for light, then like an insane amount of IPAs that are 6-7.5% range.
But… That IS a little booze.
A lot of booze would be like 10% or more for a canned beverage because that would be unexpected.
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).
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.
Very true. The difference between medicine and poison is often just dosage.
Heroin is made from opium. It’s not the same.
Not just painkiller, a bit of alcohol will kill tons of nasties, so it was often the case that lightly fermented drinks are safer and healthier than many water sources.
What brand?
White Claw
Michelob Ultra
Mike’s hard lemonade
Grain Belt
Mm yup. Fruit juice.
CHIT!
GT’s, around 15 years ago
Aww. I like their stuff. But I didn’t get to have more alchy fun! I started trying theirs out like 5 years ago.
Funnily enough I think now they sell a “hard” version that’s something like 1.5% so you can actually go have that fun! They’re just doing it legally now, with all proper labeling and licensing.
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.
It’s fine, I’ll just take more Tylenol to deal with the pain.
Just drink Painquil! It’s acetaminophen, and it’s 10% alcohol! The old liver double whammy.
If God was real, PainQuil would be morphine and blue raspberry instead of black cherry
If the devil was real, it would be anise and krokodil.
Is…is that real?
It’s okay, they only recommend it for children older than 11.
I am a children older than 11.
That website is surreal.
“Non-habit forming… Delicious taste.”
All the reviews are just 4-5 stars and read only:
“This reviewer received incentives from the manufacturer.”
Oh no
I miss feeling things
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
Why the fuck are you drinking alcohol and driving?
If god didn’t want us to drink and drive then why’d he invent those nifty beer can hats?
And this
Dang! If I still talked to my parents I’d have just found the perfect Christmas present!
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.
These were also a thing in Australia about 15 years ago.
Been to the Myers a few times, nice place, haven’t used the drive through though.
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.
I think the crucial part here is he’s not saying he’s drunk-driving. He’s saying he’s having his first drink while driving.
That’s an essential time saver for a lot of people, getting to start that buzz 20-30 minutes earlier so as you can still get a little drunk in the few hours of free time you have before having to go to bed to start it all over again.
Is it healthy? Nah.
But will opening your first drink on the home significantly impair you? Nah.
Although there is an exception to this, which is young people driving after a single drink. Because if you’re not just a nihilistic person killing your feelings with alcohol, then the first one hitting you can make you overconfident, and then drive recklessly for ‘fun’ (despite not yet being actually impaired) and that’s when traffic accidents happen.
Idk what the law is where you live, but there’s no “open containers” shit here, you could downright have vodka if you’re driving — but you can not exceed 0.05% BAC. Americans do weird “field sobriety tests” which seems like utter sitcom shit to everyone in the rest of the world where we actually use breathalysers. Finnish cops will even give you a bit of leeway if it’s just on the edge, because they want to see if it’s going down or up. So if you blow real close to the limit, they’ll have you wait for 5-10 min and blow again, and if it’s over, then you’re taken for blood tests / a more accurate breathalyser. (A properly calibrated really accurate one, the cops just rock like nice high tier handheld ones.)
I mean the cops would definitely comment if you were having a beer while driving, but if I told them it’s the first and the breathalyser corroborated it, they could only chastise me a little bit and not fine me or anything.
The point is I’m not saying drinking any alcohol while driving is good, but having literally one drink for someone who’s not in their 20’s anymore is nothing to panic about.
That’s an essential time saver for a lot of people, getting to start that buzz 20-30 minutes earlier so as you can still get a little drunk in the few hours of free time you have before having to go to bed to start it all over again.
sorry but that’s a terrible rationalization, pound a couple shots as soon as you get home if you wanna immediately get drunk in your free time.
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Nope. That’s for getting drunk, not getting buzzed slightly in order to be able to relax the tiny bit required.
Distinction without a difference, you can measure the dose and get whatever intoxication level desired.
Sorry, kiddo, but leave this to the pros and don’t drink and drive before you know how to and never drive while actively inebriated.
Lmfao, okay sorry mr badass, you’re right I’ll leave drinking and driving to the pros, sorry you got triggered
Distinction without a difference, you can measure the dose and get whatever intoxication level desired.
The fact that you don’t understand the difference between drinking and getting drunk is what tells me you definitely shouldn’t do it, as you’d be driving drunk, and that’s wrong.
Here in Europe we often learn how to do it. The way we’re taught is one drink one hour. You can have two drinks and still drive as a medium sized man, that’s like the rule of thumb. Ofc if you’re having two pints of wine that won’t work, but two beers will be just fine to be under 0.05%.
The problem with alcohol is one of two. For kiddos like you, it’s becoming overconfident, thinking they’re fucking rally drivers, and trying to show their 1.8 litre Nisssan FWD Nissan to their friends while coming back from the bar, they don’t handle it well, veer into the other lane while there’s a car coming and BOOM.
However a well worn out 40-year old coming back from his work can actually benefit from the beer in his way home. A single beer, even if it’s a whole pint, won’t physically impair you. But if you’re exhausted from your day at work, it will nicely rehydrate you, and it will start your liver up, meaning it will slightly perk you up.
That’s the thing. When drinking, at first it sort of perks you up, then slows you down. So you want to get that cycle started as soon as possible, because you don’t want it to be a wide arc, because you don’t want to drink a ton before tomorrow’s work.
My dad pretty much always drank at nights. Never drove without breathalysing himself. Was he an alcoholic? Definitely. Did he ever drive drunk, not caring for the kids that he was driving around?
Most fucking assuredly net, God rest his soul.
Oh and he wouldn’t have subscribed to the “have one while driving home” prolly, but he didn’t need to because he worked from home, but he wouldn’t have scuffed at me for doing it. Once made me drive my brother to the army brigade from his leave despite me telling him I’d had 3 large ciders (it was all small backroads so it wasn’t that big of a thing really but still I was like close to the 0.05% clearly so that wasn’t cool.)
My thing is, if you need to drink that bad and feel the need to get buzzed as soon as you’re able to, you might have a problem. If the ride home is too long of a wait for you, it just seems unhealthy.
to get buzzed as soon as you’re able to, you might have a problem
No that’s definitely a problem. What kind is a different question. One of a boss overworking you, or a personal moral failing?
it just seems unhealthy.
All drinking is unhealthy.
I had already opedened it, what else was I supposed to do, pour it out?? How wasteful smdh fr
Put it in your cupholder and drink it at home??
Don’t be ridiculous, it would have gone flat by then. Yuck!
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.
All the arguments below, but I’m pretty sure it was a joke. He’s drinking it on the way home instead of the way to work. I laughed.
Was it the Monster Beast Unleashed?
They have those weed waters now too. I love them but wouldn’t want someone to get that by mistake
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.
Couldn’t have been STRONG ZERO
That stuff still gives me nightmares
Never been ID’ed for an energy drink.
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.
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.
I need to move to Sweden
I only know about Sytembolaget thanks to Nanowar of Steel
I’d be awesome PR for them if they were paying for it because waiting for an employee to check your ID for a damn energy drink while you’re trying to get on with your day sounds annoying as shit
I tolerate it for alcohol but energy drinks would be too much
Energy drinks are pretty bad for you though. Probably should do the same thing in the US.
We don’t do public health here anymore. Soon RFK will advise babies drink energy drinks.
We are like two years max from the Brawdo timeline.
Soylent green has electrolytes
Honestly caffeine should be age restricted to like 15+. Its a very addictive psychoactive drug.
Energy drinks are 14+ in my country. No idea whether it’s enforced though. Only became interested in the during uni.
Oi m8? You got a loicense for that monsta?
Technically you dont have to, its not an actual law just supermarkets being melts
hmm, there’s gotta be some agreement or contract that makes them.
no business is going to willingly get in the way of their own profits like that. no companies id for alcohol because they’re concerned for your health lol. if there isn’t a law or legal incentive for them to do that then they have credible evidence that there will be if they don’t.
you can’t survive as a business in 2025 if you willingly do things that could show down sales for something silly like “health and safety”
Why do people have to be ID’d for an energy drink? We don’t have to be ID’d for them here
There’s no legal minimum age, but some retailers voluntarily limit sales of high-caffeine drinks to under 16s.
UK retailers also mostly operate a “challenge 25” policy, which means for any age-restricted items (alcohol, tobacco, blades etc.) with an 18 or 16 limit they ask for ID from anyone who looks under 25, to make sure they’re catching people who look old for their age.
I never got ID’d buying Sparks (basically four loko before four loko was cool). The places I went that had it, stocked it with the RedBull and it only says it has alcohol in it in the smallest of print. I was getting that shit when I was still just 18.
im rarely id’d for beer…
“thought”
In some sense it shows how beautiful this community is that I had to scroll all the way down here to find the “he knew” comment.
All the rest are just supportive, like “I almost made the same mistake”.
Ain’t no open container laws when you’re drinkin’ claws.
Trevor?!
Do people not read the package at all for the food they consume? It says right on the front the alcohol content.
Put it near enough to the energy drink case in the convenience store, and this kind of mixup seems plausible.
Yeah that’s kind of insane. I kind of get it if you’re seeing it for the first time and someone else is holding it, but to actually buy it and not realize it’s alcohol is a completely different level.
Assuming this is real, maybe the wife bought them for herself and hubby thought, “I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if I started snagging these bad boys”. She notices that some are missing, asks about it, and we have our reveal.
Party pooper
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.
Watched my boss drink one of those and a red bull at the same time. Regular thing for her apparently.
Like alternating between, mixed drink, or just both cans right to the mouth at once?
She had two cans open, alternating between the two. It was like watching a train wreck.
That’s a Redbull Vodka with soda water.
Is this from a Trailer Park Boys episode?
This lady makes six figures for sure. Sounds like it though.
Bet he’s been having a very good work time though.
they’re…
they’re not?
Newp! Alcoholic seltzer!
Mango juice
Mmm yeah. Well, back to it then
Do it lady!
Ok Chit
