Personally I had all the sobriety I could stand by the time I had my first drink. I will sober up when I die like I will catch up on my sleep.
People aren’t downvoting you because they disagree with your lifestyle, but your comment is like going into a thread about veganism and saying “fuck yall I’m gonna eat a cheese burger every day until I die”. A valid personal decision, but not really relavent to the conversation unless you just wanted everyone to know you’re different
Thanks for explaining this. Also apparently I am different and I don’t really care whether people know or not.
I don’t really care whether people know or not.
Going out of your way to make a comment about it is an interesting choice then lol
I was trying to escape beer to save money, but at $2 a can non-alcoholic is even more expensive despite seemingly less taxes needing to be paid.
My assumption was that it’s because it’s newer, so they need to make up that r&d cost. Once there is a lot more competition for it, the prices should come down.
I’m just hoping for fewer drunk driving accidents and reduced health issues
R&D cost lol, there’s no such thing. That’s what companies want you to believe so they can upsell medicine and technology.
This is just another market rife for capitalism to ensnare. Some guy crunched the numbers and found that x% don’t drink at events. So to recoup that lost revenue, they made this. The drinks, the ads, the news articles that cover it. All planted to drive up their bottom line.
Because that’s how businesses work. They find an angle and swoop in and start setting up payment systems to see what people will begrudgingly pay for.
Oh boy you are painfully optimistic about capitalism
Let us not forget, 1 trillion types of non alcoholic drinks already exist.
People don’t event know when they a being marketed.
fair, again I’m just hopeful that this will become a good option for people
That’s the nicest way to put it lol
Is non-alcoholic beer reallly more expensive than the regular? In Europe they’re on par in most places. In Northern Europe (Norway, Denmark) it’s even significantly cheaper due to taxes.
Where I am it is the same or more. Yesterday I picked up a Lagunitas IPA NA for $11.49/6pk
How does this compare with recent trends of non alcoholic drinks coming out with alcoholic versions of their flagships? I’ve seen Mountain Dew and Arizona Tea drinks with alcohol in them at the ABC, which is really strange to me.
Is that the NC Alcoholic Beverage Control, or the west coast minimarts that sell liquor?
It’s a liquor store chain that I’ve seen in Florida and Virginia I think
Yes, those are state-run stores, not private chains. South Carolina is so Puritan about them that they dont even have signs; only a red dot. Really psychotic conservatism.
That’s only true in some states. In Florida ABC liquors is a private company just like any other private liquor store. Many of our grocery stores sell liquor. The convenience store near my house sells liquor.
I think ABC liquors just decided to bank on the name recognition of state run ABCs in puritan states.
Learned a new term today: “sober curious.” I quit drinking 5 years ago, and never looked back. I wouldn’t mind some more variety for non-alcoholic drinks, especially those without sugar. Can’t have pop too often because it’s just sugar. Kombucha reminds me of beer so I avoid it. Fruit juices are full of sugar too. So it’s usually down to tea, coffee or water for me.
How do you feel about drinks like Bubly?
I drank a ton of those 0 sugar flavored carbonated water when I was quitting, but I stopped after a while. Felt bad creating so much recycling. But yeah, I like them! I’ll take one when people offer or when I do feel like something other than water. I just no longer buy them on a regular basis. My home made alternative is squeezing half a lemon in a glass of water or club soda (and I’d buy the 2L bottles).
I bought a soda stream and will cycle through various things to flavor it. My two go-tos are orange juice and mango juice. And I usually just put a splash of it on top. Maybe 1/10.
Not the person you’re replying to but I’ve been sober almost 7 years and I drink tons of flavored sparkling water.
As long as there’s no added sugar, the fruit juices should be fine. Not all sugars are equal, and fructose is a long chain sugar so it’s more like a fuse then the dynamite (glucose).
Uh… what? This is a fructose molecule
Since things like iced coffee and unsweetened tea exists, I don’t really have a problem with options, especially since they’ve both become common enough to be canned.
That said, the term “sober curious” just sounds degrading, like you’re saying “that weirdo guy who’s actually wondering what it’s like to be sober” rather than someone who doesn’t want to be a publicly acceptable drug addict.
“Look, I’m totally a drinker, but I’ve always wanted to try not-drinking, and I was wondering if maybe you’d like to be my first time?”
There are maybe two or three pleasure drinks available to me as a sugar-repelling former alcoholic, and my wife has boatloads of medical issues and cant find anything anywhere to enjoy except McDonalds unsweetened tea.
Once you try avoiding sugar, your choices are pretty limited. I drank some pop when I was just starting to quit, but I knew it was just a temporary solution. On the bright side, you save money by drinking water most of the time. If we go out I’ll sometimes order those fake cocktails, but they are so expensive.
Same. I got into kefir and a wide variety of herbal teas/tisanes, myself.
lol that sounds like vocabulary only an alcoholic would invent.
“I’ve heard of being sober, but I’m to afraid to try it right now.”
It’s a super weird turn of phrase. I admit, as someone who doesn’t actually enjoy the flavour of alcohol nor its intoxicating effects, I’d not mind having something a little more universal that I can say to people. “I don’t really drink” both comes with a lot of unrelated baggage – they think I’m either a recovering alcoholic or a church nut – and people get really weird about it if they ever see me having a drink (probably because they think I’ve fallen off the wagon or something).
But that phrase sure as hell isn’t going to be “sober-curious”.
lol totally
I wonder if this is a pendulum swinging, and gen z’s kids will drink to excess.
Me I limit myself to one or two drinks, only in social spaces/never alone.
That’s interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. I guess we’re seeing a bit of that with smoking vs vaping, but I’d need to look at the rates more to see if that actually was like a pendulum
