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Chasing the Bottle (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just the smell of alcohol gives me a headache, so I can understand.

Only through historical social norms it has achieved its acceptability. Were it to be "discovered" today, it'd be banned in a matter of minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Only through historical social norms it has achieved its acceptability. Were it to be “discovered” today, it’d be banned in a matter of minutes.

Ease of production is at least as important I think. You can't really ban access to starch and sugar, and as long as you can get those you can make alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If it was discovered today, nobody would drink shit that tastes like soap