IF it were just a few cold ones no one would care
I guess I was drunkorexic in college. But for me it was more a question of whether I wanted to spend my $3 on a couple slices of pizza or a pitcher of beer...luckily I was cute enough I didn’t always need to buy my own beer.
Hey, get hammered, suffer an epic hangover, etc. Been there, done that. Life goes on.
I didn’t eat before drinking because I would get drunk faster. It saved beer money.
Like my friend likes to quip: There’s a sandwich in every beer.
It’s one reason I tend to drink more hard liquor than beer. But I actually drink very little of either.
With 300+ million people in the US, it’s not difficult to find some statistical anomaly to portray in the media as the norm. While this young person was fasting for another drinking binge, a group of nondescript asian young people chatting in mandarin, took a cigarette break behind a physics building to relieve the monotony of working on their various graduate level projects to earn their PhD’s. They don’t generate web-clicks, but the alcoholic loser does.
Eating before drinking is a buzzkill. Most alcoholics know about that already.
I’ve managed to get just as drunk on beer as I ever did on hard liquor. Of course, I was never stupid enough to chug a quart of liquor (or even a “pint” bottle). Not sure where I learned that that would be a sure way to alcohol poisoning, I guess it seemed pretty obvious to me.
Drinking on an empty stomach is just a bad idea. Although, you’ll probably end up getting hungry and scarfing half a pizza at 2 am, anyway.