It’s a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
Not as cheap as just plain alcohol. But yes, I home brew. Hops and Malt are not cheap, but sugar (insert any fermentable here, rice, cane sugar, corn, potatoes ext…) is.
My friend back when i was like 20 used to just brew some stuff using Alcotec TurboYeast and sugar, and then mixed concentrated fruit squash into it. Came out as like 12% and tasted like fruits, cost under 10p/litre. He was popular at parties
Not tried anything like that, generally prefer fermented fruits and bee juice.
Isn’t that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.
But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.
Sure, but anything that involves drinking spirits by the pint is going to be dangerous so who cares?
Only illegal if they catch you. He didn’t record his face.
It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
Reminds me of a joke I’ve heard from a few people now. “Let’s drink faster, guys, it’s already getting dark.”
This is largely false and due to prohibition era propaganda. You would need to be trying very hard to get enough methanol to be dangerous or deliberately add it.
Humans have been distilling for ages, I find it hard to believe it’s that dangerous, especially if you do any research or learning.
Sure, if you don’t know what you’re doing. But, as we eliminate all regulations in the US, we gotta learn how to DIY.
Enhanced flavor™
I don’t get it, you eat better with a couple dozens of eggs
I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious… can easily drink that on the rocks.
Try American Honey, I definitely give it an edge over JD!
Bleh! Try some makers mark straight up or with ice. It’s still sweet without that corn syrup taste
Makers is so insanely overrated. If you’re gonna spend that money anyways, any of these is a huge upgrade from makers:
- Mitchers
- 1792
- Four Roses
- Basil Haydens
Blegh, but then it tastes like makers.
How about four roses small batch instead and we forget the sweet.
Real men drink Old Granddad BiB. As a bonus it will make the best Old Fashioned you will ever have.
Ha, no worries. I have a decent selection I’m currently working on:
I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn’t even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you’re wondering if we care about what you’re buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don’t fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
edit: oh and I learned about a new pasta last week, that was cool
Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
Idk man that Irish butter pretty damn good
The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
Regular butter for cooking
Kerrygold salted for spreading
'tis the only way
Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
Well, we’re talking about mass market, supermarket butters in the first place here. Nobody is comparing these to boutique shop butters.
Beyond that, for me personally, I’ve always considered Kerrygold to be a very decent, better than Land O’ Lakes or store brand butter, but I have a preference for either Plugrà or Lurpak in my supermarket-available butter. Finlandia is also very good.
I do. I’ve had it on my bagels and it’s noticably tastier than with regular store brand butter. I usually don’t get it because it’s like 4x the price.
Lol, clearly you haven’t been shopping at budget places in the US. The competition is Land O Lakes, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, or store brand.
Where are you buying your butter, and what brand?
Well, I’ve been vegan for years, but I usually had this stuff, I think.
https://www.andechser-natur.de/en/bio-produkte/andechser-natur-organic-alp-butter-82-fat-250g
Kerrygold is good, but really good butter is on another level.
Good butter straight from a dairy farm is super dangerous though. You can suddenly find yourself standing in your kitchen, no memory of the last 45 minutes, the fridge door open, a greasy knife in your hand, breadcrumbs all over the floor, and half the butter gone. Gotta be careful with that stuff.
Double blind test ‘em - fun and enlightening
Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.
I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It’s not even yellow, and they sell it in “sticks”. I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.
That’s decent stuff that I use on the regular.
I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.
I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight bitch
Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.
It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.
Coke zero is worse for your health.
nobody who drinks Coke care for their health.
I’d agree otherwise, else Coke Zero wouldn’t exist I guess.
Everyone cares for their health, they just think it’s “not that bad”, which it is in a way, but that depends on the level on health and risk you’re willing to have
I’m not a doctor but my understanding of the topic is that it’s pretty clear : any soda is bad.
Sure, a Coke a week, in a cocktail or otherwise, does not matter much but AFAIK people who buy entire packs (as in the photo) drink sodas at every meal and that’s unhealthy over long term, no matter what brand or type of soda it is.
So assuming that’s a well known medical fact and people still do it, then one can say they do NOT care for their health, no?
Diet and sugar-free sodas are all marketing BS. It’s all meant to get one to think it’s “healthy” rather than “less terrible”
You prob believe vaping is worse than cigs too
Nope. Vaping is so much better (less bad) than smoking. Combustion sucks.
I suggest you do your research.
it depends, some vapes are indeed worse than most cigs, i think most can agree with both being bad
in what situation is low temp vapor worse than burning smoke and ash in your lungs, ignore the chemicals, which are always better in vapes, even american spirit all natural tobacco have chemicals and aren’t really all natural, tar is always worse
In the situation that you are putting food flavorings in your lungs. Not made to go there… if you’re just vaping pure pg / vg that’s different. Look up popcorn lung for an example of why food flavorings should not be inhaled.
Uhm, source??
I love how people just feel like artificial sweeteners must be bad for you. They’re okay. Not healthy, but way better than sugar.
Also: Coke can still be kinda unhealthy, other ingredients etc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame
For transparency, here is another page that seems more in favor of Aspartame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
Here’s the conclusion of Yuka, which is a lot more on the “alarmist” side: https://help.yuka.io/l/en/article/r2x5e36paq-aspartame (note that the US FDA is considered as really lax compared to some other countries in Europe in terms of additives and health concerns worldwide)
Many studies show that artificial sweeteners doesn’t help with weight loss at all
Having less calories helps? Those ppl they studied likely didnt practice cico and ate more because they thought they saved calories from drinking less soda so they ended up at maintenence or over
If they studied ppl who thought they were drinking regular soda but it was sugar free than youd see wight loss, but they were aware that it was sugar free and 0 calories so they ate more
The links I listed are only about the artificial sweeteners, not sugar-free sodas
But the main thing is: it makes you want more sugar, so you’ll end up consuming more, which doesn’t help or even makes weight regulation worse. You’ll end up getting the calories in a way or another, hopefully from good sources though
Move like a butterfly, sting like an insulin jab.
It’s the butter that did it for me. That’s fancy butter
Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags
Running between the rain drops to not get wet, then diving into the lake.
Running between the rain drops
What did I just watch.
We all need to make sacrifices. They should have gotten a handle of whiskey and drink water.
Weird, I just had to do this with $65 and ended up getting it to $62 as the total. For a family of 4 for 4 days. It was hard and not the best options, but it worked.
That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
Crown Royal is Canadian. 🤷 Not sure if it’s available where you are though.
Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
Drambuie is an old British honey and whisky liqueur.
You can even make something like it youself: https://www.seriouseats.com/diy-drambuie-make-your-own-honey-scotch-liqueur-recipe
Also you can make a Rusty Nail with some ice and a well Scotch.
Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones
Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.
Oh I feel you, I too think it’s overpriced, also I think it tastes like shit.
Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
Wow I’m going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
It’s a bit early in the year to forage for sloe berries. I picked so much when they were in season that I had pretty much filled a freezer shelf. Buying enough gin at once for all that would cost pushing 3 figures. Even at Aldi prices. But at least it should be comfortably over a years supply of berries so that I can restock when they are in season again.
Building my stockpile of gin so that I can ideally have bottles in rotation, plus it would let the gin age for longer if I have more than a years supply at once. I mean it is gin, it’s not like you go through bottles of it each night.
Have you tried Stag’s Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?
I’m sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.
I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.
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At least the butter might come in handy (or by other limbs).
Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
Sooooo a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie and no identification? 🥷
You could also demand to see the kerrygold’s papers, and then leave with it.
Add another 20 bucks for the two packs of cigarettes for the two days. How could you forget that?
Also, honey Jack? Yuck. Jim Beam all the way baby.
Is the butter there to get the taste of the other three out of your mouth?
I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.
You call beer, junkfood and alcohol groceries?
Look at Mr. Fatcat over here. Bet they salt their lentils too!
… you get lentils?
Not from a store!
That would be the um, joke
