Posted on 04/06/2014 11:05:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
For many of us, enjoying a glass of wine or pint of beer is the perfect way to unwind after a hard day’s work. But it seems having a drink in a pub or restaurant could be about to get a lot less relaxing.
Campaigners are calling for lines to be printed on glasses to show drinkers how many units of alcohol they are really consuming—and potentially to shock them into cutting down. The plans, put forward by the Drinkaware charity, would see unit measure lines added to glasses, based on average-strength drinks—a 4 percent beer, 13 percent wine and 40 percent spirit.
Given that a 4 percent pint of beer contains 2.3 units, the glass would have two unit lines printed on it—one just below half-full and the second a little way under the official pint mark.
However, pub operators have condemned the “Big Brother” plans as “barmy”, saying the lines would be meaningless because the strength of different beers, wines and spirits varies so much. …
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Dave Allen (Irish comedian who had lost part of his left forefinger) said that he often stuck his finger in his whiskey glass and it had been eaten away by “strong drink”....
Heh, heh, I was stationed in Germany with a sergeant major who must have been there since the occupation. When he hit mandatory retirement & was finally headed stateside, someone asked him how he was ever going to get re accustomed to drinking American beer.
He replied he was going to take a German beer & gradually start adding Clorox!
This was no exaggeration as Budweiser tasted like fizzy chemical froth compared to any local beer made according to the `Reinigungsgesetz’ which is said to be the oldest continually enforced law in the world.
It states that beer will consist of nothing other than water, barley, yeast & hops.
LOL, loved watching Dave Allen at Large.
Please Sir may I have more.
Hey, at least you’ll know if the bartender is cheating you. :)
Hey, why not buy “imported” beers?
Funny story when I was in Stockholm a few years back — they stocked imported American beers. They had a pretty good selection — Fat Tire, Boulder Beer. Just a couple of miles from my home.
Some of the local to the States beers are pretty good. Just avoid the pi$$ beers.
Cool, I love a challenge!
You mean a sleeve of Fig Newtons PLUS a quart of ice cold whole milk.
Now THAT is a serving size I can live with.
Are they really that stupid?
Dat’s Sexiss.
It is more likely that bar patrons might see it as a starting line...
The campaigners? Unquestionably.
{sigh} Yeah, them. Indeed they are.
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