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re: TIL that something called 'Mocktails' is on the rise

Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:01 pm to
Posted by HoustonChick86
Catalina Wine Mixer
Member since Dec 2009
59095 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:01 pm to
I've never understood the appeal of a cocktail.

Just give me a Diet Coke if I'm out, if I'm home and want something I keep different sparkling waters around.
Posted by Lake08
Member since Jun 2023
2778 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:03 pm to
Some of you seem like fun at parties. Geez. One could argue that certain foods are worse for you than alcohol. Hasn’t it also been medically proven that alcohol (in moderation) help kill certain issues in your body?
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36121 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:06 pm to
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One could argue that certain foods are worse for you than alcohol.


If one is an idiot, sure

quote:

Hasn’t it also been medically proven that alcohol (in moderation) help kill certain issues in your body?


No dumbass
Posted by Lake08
Member since Jun 2023
2778 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:07 pm to
You might want to google that, baw
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36121 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:08 pm to
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You might want to google that, baw


You seem to already have it, lmk
Posted by Giantkiller
the internet.
Member since Sep 2007
24363 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:21 pm to
I just wish the alcohol lobby woukd get off the THC brewer's nuts.

If its a free, fair market, these dudes would be cleaning up. Instead, Texas is about to ban everything. Who do you think is funding that?
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22814 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:30 pm to
Fancy fruit juice?
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
9659 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:36 pm to
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Hasn’t it also been medically proven that alcohol (in moderation) help kill certain issues in your body?


No, it hasn't. Years ago there was a study funded by the alcohol industry that showed moderate alcohol consumption was correlated with lower all-cause mortality than no alcohol.

The study has many issues, the chief among them confounding variables such as socioeconomic status, better access to healthcare, and healthier diet. In a nutshell, people who drank moderately were often richer than non-drinkers and has better access to healthcare. The non-drinkers typically were non-drinkers precisely because they had either abused alcohol in the past or had illnesses that prohibited them from drinking in the first place. Meaning that alcohol or not, their health outcomes were going to be poorer.

Alcohol can thin your blood and help reduce blood clotting in the short-term. You know what else has polyphenols and reduces platelet aggregation? Berries.
This post was edited on 6/14/25 at 1:37 pm
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59265 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 1:41 pm to
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Calling it a poison isn’t dramatic, it’s just accurate. If that makes you uncomfortable, that’s not on me.


Please don’t be condescending.
Posted by rintintin
Life is Life
Member since Nov 2008
16945 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 2:44 pm to
Bro we get it, you don't like alcohol.

Nobody is drinking it for the health benefits. You can consume alcohol and still be healthy though.
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
9659 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 2:52 pm to
Not true. I really like bourbon.
Posted by jrowla2
Colorado
Member since Jan 2007
4167 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 2:55 pm to
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Mocktails absolutely have their place, but I have a chuckle when they’re priced the same as their cocktail equivalent.


In wholesale generic alcohol terms, the cocktail is cheaper than the mocktail.
Ginger beer ain’t cheap.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
119933 posts
Posted on 6/14/25 at 4:02 pm to
This guy I grew up with never had a sip of alcohol in his life to this day. His daddy was an alcoholic and there were times when he would get home drunk and things would go south. His mom left him when he was young.. When he got older he didn't want any part of it.

When we were in our late teens, early 20s he kept an empty miller light can in his truck that he would fill up halfway when he went to a party or whatever because he hated talking with people and everyone was holding a drink and he would just stand there not holding anything..

So I think recognizing there is a demand for something... I guess they call mocktail is pretty smart... It sounds gay, but from a business side of it, if you make something that looks like an alcohol beverage and sell it at the price of alcohol.. and people buy it. Good for them.
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