That leads to felching, I hear.
I always found that vodka gives a real clear-headed drunk, where you’re uninhibited and having fun and barely even feel drunk (even though you are). Beer, meanwhile, feels heavy on the head and makes you feel wobbly and more aware of being ‘drunk’. I don’t like beer. Never had enough gin to comment (though now i’d like to).
I love the Beer Street and Gin Lane pictures! Are they actually two different pictures or are they drawn this way?
In my peer group’s lore gin makes you suicidal.
I guess it’s because of the Raj in India and gin and tonics, but I’ve always thought of gin as a rather genteel, upper-class drink, terms like “gin mill” notwithstanding.
I’d love to see some kind of data on that.
Interesting aside:
I was at a bar the other night drinking gin and tonics.
I got some alcohol mixed with tonic that was definitely not gin, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what the hell it was.
It wasn’t terrible, so I sipped it, but mainly it was curiosity that got me.
So I spoke up and asked the bartender to taste it and see what it was
It was tequilla…
A tequilla tonic.
But the crazy thing is that I couldn’t exactly place what it was. I would know tequilla had it been a shot, but for the life of me i couldn’t discern.
They’re two separate but associated pictures. Hogarth did plenty of paired engravings (including a couple of “Before” and “After” prints that you really have to look up. It depicts couples Before and After sex. The word “Sex” isn’t in there, but clearly implied.), and several sets of multiple engravings (“The Harlot’s Progess”, “The Rake’s Progress”, “Marriage a-la-Mode”, “Industry and Sloth”, and so on.) Beer Street and Gin Lane were MEANT to be compared, side by side, but in my book of engravings, they’re on separate pages.