# Conspiracy Theory #17352 Booze Edition

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242 "2017-12-01T12:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242/1 "2017-12-01T12:44:16Z")

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I have a theory, and I once long ago read an article that also posited this, that the meme that women can’t make it through the day without wine that is all over social media was created by the booze industry to sell more booze. It’s grown to the point where it is just part of the culture now but I suspect the origins are a Marketing team somewhere.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242/2 "2017-12-01T13:53:23Z")

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Ridiculous! Next you’ll probably insist people were perfectly fine with funky teeth and [body odor](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-advertisers-convinced-americans-they-smelled-bad-12552404/) for millennia until effective mass marketing made us all self-conscious about a hundred years ago. But seriously, no conspiracy-come-true would surprise me at this point.

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**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242/3 "2017-12-01T17:00:49Z")

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Probably the same team that made bacon so beloved that it obtained cult like status.

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242/4 "2017-12-01T17:41:55Z")

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> [@xizor](#):
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> Probably the same team that made bacon so beloved that it obtained cult like status.

That did not require human action. It is only recognition of a Law of Nature. _All Hail Bacon._

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conspiracy-theory-17352-booze-edition/803242/5 "2017-12-01T17:44:27Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> That did not require human action. It is only recognition of a Law of Nature. _All Hail Bacon._

Adam and Eve did not partake of the Fruit of Knowledge but the Pork Belly of Wisdom.