I wonder if there’d be significantly fewer discarded mini-bottles along the roads in places where weed is legal.
Quick! Who wants to volunteer to study this? (Not it!)
The one time in my life that I’ve found a used one in a public place was about a month ago, in my apartment parking lot.
(vomit smiley)
Don’t you mean 21? In Iowa, you can get beer at 19 under some circumstances, but you have to be 21 to buy hard liquor.
There is a difference between being able to drink legally and getting in trouble for drinking (unless the law gets involved, then they are the same).
Many moons ago my parents wouldn’t have cared (much) that I was underage drinking, but would have blown a gasket over pot.
Whereas in my house, when my dad would get a new pipe, he would give me his old one.
I think this may be the most oddly-specific pitting ever. I don’t even know what the items are that the OP is talking about. I’m happy to accept they may be an issue and glad they got it off their chest but it is having limited global traction.
Thanks…I think…if anything that knowledge just makes the scenario even more weird.
The list goes on (according to talktotransformer.com):
Fireball Whiskey mini-bottles and toothpicks with dental floss
Sugar cube candies with lollipops
Tofu “jelly”
Gelato/strawberry cream pie
Hershey’s Kisses
Peanut butter
Cheese sticks
Candy
Candy/sugar packets
Candy/sugar cubes
Ice cream cones
Candy/sugar cubes/ice cream scoop
Candy/sugar cubes/ice cream scoop/candy/sugar packet
Candy/sugar packet with plastic lid
Gummy worms
M&M’s with candy
M&M’s with plastic lid
Strawberry candy/sugar cube
Lollipops
Strawberries
Peppermint candy
Chocolate candy/sugar cube
Nilla Wafers
Gummy worms
Chocolate chip candy
(Cue the Blazing Saddles reference… “I like Gummy Worms!”)
Can you link to this, because it sounds like absolute bullshit. There’s nothing in those ingredients good for making meth. On the other hand, “Brady Bunch method” definitely sounds like a drug-scare urban legend name. It doesn’t even turn up on Google.
People get tiny alcohol bottles for these reasons:
- They’re alcohol dependent and don’t trust themselves with larger bottles.
- It’s all they can afford because they aren’t planning their buys well. (I know it’s more cost-effective to save up for a big bottle, but I need 2 shots RIGHT NOW).
- Drink them “on the go”. They’re easy to keep in a purse or pocket, you can drink them on the train or in the bathroom. Or in the car… easy to toss a bottle if the cops stop you.
Folks with this mindset aren’t real conscientious about littering, so that’s why they toss them. The metro train tracks in my town are littered with small alcohol bottles.
I tasted this stuff once and, to me, it tasted like crap. I poured the rest of the bottle down the sink. Fireball has a strong and nasty odor. It also tasted very sweet to me, and not very “whiskyish” at all. Yuck!
Apropos of nothing, I just want to note that I once worked in an old factory where our business shared space with a company that made those “floss picks”. They made special floss picks for kids (to encourage them to floss, I guess) in the shapes of dinosaurs. There was a huge pile of discarded faulty dino picks outside.
would’ve been interesting to see dino picks and fireball whiskey minis.
Maybe it’s just the parking lot you hang out at, (and the roads you walk down). I haven’t noticed these things, myself.
I notice the floss picks myself around here. The weird thing is they aren’t even good at actually flossing. The front teeth are always easy to floss with any implement but the back teeth are even harder to reach with a pick than with a bare string. I guess they are more convenient in a car than a box of string if you really can’t wait until you get home to floss.
Edible wax bottles exist:
Nik-L-Nip
Just replace the syrup with Fireball.
Damn, that could be your first million right there! Just crank out tiny wax six-packs with assorted booze.
Then bring out breast-shaped ones: Nik-L-Nip-L’s!
My WAG is that alcohol might dissolve the wax from inside so I don’t know if it’s feasible to put actual whiskey in them. But maybe there’s some way to do an alcoholic cinnamon-flavored gel. I’m no chemist or Willy Wonka so I’m not sure if it could work.
I do know that if edible wax bottles of whiskey existed I’d buy them.
A follow-up since I spent a couple minutes on Google (which makes me a certified expert now), carnauba wax (which most edible waxes include) is not soluble in alcohol.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/carnauba-wax
So damn this might be feasible. As long as you don’t let them get too warm.