My Restaurant Was the Greatest Show of Excess You’d Ever Seen, and It Almost Killed Me

bonappetit.com ^ | David McMillan of Joe Beef - Montreal

[Hardastarboard]

I LOVE Toby Keith.

[TADSLOS]

All of a sudden, there was no bottle of wine good enough for me. I’m drinking, like, literally the finest wines of the world. Foie gras is not exciting. Truffles are meh. I don’t want lobster; I had it yesterday. What am I looking for, eating and drinking like this every day?

You need an MRE intervention.

[Hardastarboard]

I ain’t drunk; I’m just drinkin’ - Albert Collins

[smvoice]

...and a wine for every first course under leavened...

[sparklite2]

[Nifster]

The alcoholic is the last to know

[caltaxed]

I quit drinking a few times, the latest for six years. Life is much improved without alcohol but most people need to attend meetings and work the steps to stay with it.

The underlying problems that resulted in alcoholism don't disappear and some maintenance is required.

[Nifster]

Not every alcoholic craves

[Nifster]

Do you not know the word?

[Nifster]

Ain’t it the truth

[Nifster]

Har har....not

[Osage Orange]

Direct attention elsewhere.....

Like gardening, tending fruit trees....teaching the dogs "stuff"?

That sort of attention?

[sparklite2]

My best friend eventually suicided from the results of his alcoholism. He started drinking as a teenager and never stopped, to my knowledge.

He was in a car crash and was taken to the hospital where they had to crack his chest open. His liver was so huge, they just sewed him back up.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

reminds me of Ecclesiastes... wasn’t that the book that talked about diving into all the different things in life: studies, food, drink, music, etc and realizing that all that really matters in the end is your faith in God?

Yes, it is. We're studying it at church right now.

It also reminds us to enjoy the goodness through food and drink that God provides for us.

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

There’s no doubt are a lot of alcoholics on this site, but not me. I’m only on my third liberation! B-u-ur-p!

I don't have a drinking problem.

I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem!

[tet68]

I have tried to explain to my cousin that as long as
she is drinking alcohol she is an alcoholic.
She says she is a nurse and knows better,
and continues to drink. Which is classic denial.

I don’t drink any more, I don’t smoke anything anymore,
and mushrooms are hard to find.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

...for everything there is a seasoning.

I see what you did there...

[lee martell]

Thunderbird?

[Deaf Smith]

"The sleep is the best"

I have a torn muscle in each arm (repairs have to be made within 48 hours).

I can ignore it while working but when at rest it eats on you.

I need 4-5 beers at night to sleep.

The oldest tear I did in '98.

[Nifster]

I sense sarcasm

But if not

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dram, draft, nip, tot, swallow, sip, gulp;
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