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Post by Bonny on May 8, 2020 9:56:28 GMT -5
I drink very little alcoholic beverages (I average a glass of wine/week) but before the shutdown here I went to Costco. There were no disinfectant wipes to be had at the time but I loaded up on what I really came for: coffee! I have been SIP/WFH for almost 8 weeks now and I have enough coffee left for at least another 4 months Well since "your people" are responsible for our coffee addiction... I had the best coffee of my life in den Hague. The San Francisco Brand beans we get at Costco are pretty good but not the same.
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Post by thyme4change on May 8, 2020 10:08:49 GMT -5
I would think adjusting the alcohol supply would be pretty simple. The same distribution companies use the same product and the same trucks to service retail as they do restaurants and bars. Granted, kegs of beer aren't selling out, bit shifting cases or pallets of wine and vodka from the Steakhouse to the liquor store might not even change the route.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 8, 2020 11:28:58 GMT -5
I drink very little alcoholic beverages (I average a glass of wine/week) but before the shutdown here I went to Costco. There were no disinfectant wipes to be had at the time but I loaded up on what I really came for: coffee! I have been SIP/WFH for almost 8 weeks now and I have enough coffee left for at least another 4 months Well since "your people" are responsible for our coffee addiction... I had the best coffee of my life in den Hague. The San Francisco Brand beans we get at Costco are pretty good but not the same. I will plead guilty here. Can you imagine the shock to my system when we moved to the Bay Area the first time in the early 80s? Every visitor (and we had many) was under strickt orders to fill their suitcases to the weight limit with coffee and chocolate sprinkles. Best visit was the one by my parents and grandmother. They had 5 suitcases between them ( they did come for a month and they did drink coffee)
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Post by Happy prose on May 8, 2020 13:13:39 GMT -5
I really feel like I"m missing out on Coffee, but my wife always tells me to not even start drinking it. Maybe she knows my personality and thinks I'll just be drinking it all the time. I am a beverage fiend and have always drank a lot of fluids. For a long time it was water most of the day, diet pop as well. Then I figured I was drinking too much diet pop when I had it in the house, so I only drank it at restaurants but then I would just drink it like crazy. Then I gave it up completely and switched to sparkling water. At first, I hated the taste and then got used to it, then that became my go-to drink. I didn't drink diet pop for probably close to 2 years, but the moment I have one, it's like I never stopped. I thought I'd be a little repulsed by it or think that it was just too much, but it tasted as great as the last one I had! I have been drinking coffee for 50 plus years. It is something I look forward to first thing in the morning. I am almost seventy now and I know I cannot have any caffeinated coffee past noon or so as it will affect my sleeping at night. So if you do decide to take up caffeinated coffee, test yourself to see how it affects your evening/nighttime sleep. I agree. I too, love my coffee. Years agO, my husband worked nights, and so did my bff's husband. We would sit in my kitchen and drink coffee until 10 at night. Now, two cups in the morning, and that's it. I can't even drink decaf later in the day. Occasionally on vacation, Ill have an iced coffee in the afternoon, but I pay for it at bedtime.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 18:14:41 GMT -5
Made my weekly run to the liquor store and they had 5th's of hand sanitizer (standard 5th bottle with a different label) and gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. Our local distilleries have converted their production lines and it's selling like hot cakes. Standard 8-oz and 16-oz bottles of hand sanitizer are still scarce and overpriced, so these big bad boys are perfect as merchants reopen. The gallon jug is $29.99 which is less than I paid two weeks ago so the supply chain is improving and the price is going down.
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Post by movinonup on May 10, 2020 11:25:58 GMT -5
Made my weekly run to the liquor store and they had 5th's of hand sanitizer (standard 5th bottle with a different label) and gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. Our local distilleries have converted their production lines and it's selling like hot cakes. Standard 8-oz and 16-oz bottles of hand sanitizer are still scarce and overpriced, so these big bad boys are perfect as merchants reopen. The gallon jug is $29.99 which is less than I paid two weeks ago so the supply chain is improving and the price is going down. That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer.
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Post by vonna on May 10, 2020 12:23:30 GMT -5
Made my weekly run to the liquor store and they had 5th's of hand sanitizer (standard 5th bottle with a different label) and gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. Our local distilleries have converted their production lines and it's selling like hot cakes. Standard 8-oz and 16-oz bottles of hand sanitizer are still scarce and overpriced, so these big bad boys are perfect as merchants reopen. The gallon jug is $29.99 which is less than I paid two weeks ago so the supply chain is improving and the price is going down. That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer. But.... it will cure coronavirus!!!!!
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Post by Cookies Galore on May 10, 2020 14:40:10 GMT -5
Made my weekly run to the liquor store and they had 5th's of hand sanitizer (standard 5th bottle with a different label) and gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. Our local distilleries have converted their production lines and it's selling like hot cakes. Standard 8-oz and 16-oz bottles of hand sanitizer are still scarce and overpriced, so these big bad boys are perfect as merchants reopen. The gallon jug is $29.99 which is less than I paid two weeks ago so the supply chain is improving and the price is going down. That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer. They're going to drink a bottle that has a giant label that says "hand sanitizer" on it? Almost every distillery in my area has been making and selling/donating hand sanitizer in various bottle sizes for almost two months now. Do you keep your hand sanitizer in your liquor cabinet or something?
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Post by thyme4change on May 10, 2020 15:29:40 GMT -5
Made my weekly run to the liquor store and they had 5th's of hand sanitizer (standard 5th bottle with a different label) and gallon jugs of hand sanitizer. Our local distilleries have converted their production lines and it's selling like hot cakes. Standard 8-oz and 16-oz bottles of hand sanitizer are still scarce and overpriced, so these big bad boys are perfect as merchants reopen. The gallon jug is $29.99 which is less than I paid two weeks ago so the supply chain is improving and the price is going down. That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer. Thinking they have a gallon jug of room temperature beer? I doubt it.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 16:14:31 GMT -5
That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer. [img src="https://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/JiminiChristmas/ymamsmiles/idunno.gif" class="smile" alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png"] Thinking they have a gallon jug of room temperature beer? I doubt it. Germans?
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Post by movinonup on May 10, 2020 16:29:45 GMT -5
That is such a bad idea. Someone is definitely going to accidentally drink their hand sanitizer. They're going to drink a bottle that has a giant label that says "hand sanitizer" on it? Almost every distillery in my area has been making and selling/donating hand sanitizer in various bottle sizes for almost two months now. Do you keep your hand sanitizer in your liquor cabinet or something? This bottle is not obviously hand sanitizer. It's glass and does not have a flip top or pump top. I'm not going to drink it, but I would wager that someone out there would do it accidentally. They may be drunk or stupid when it happens, but I could definitely see it happening. ny.eater.com/2020/3/20/21188605/brooklyn-distilleries-hand-sanitizer-coronavirus-shortageIn Canadian News: Article
But over the last few weeks, Kosatsky says the poison centre has seen more calls about children and for adults who have mistakenly ingested hand sanitizer made by distilleries and breweries. “They are putting it in bottles that look like liquor bottles and a lot of people have mistakenly drank it.” Canada’s national data does not include a breakdown according to age or method of exposure, said a spokesperson at Health Canada. But in Quebec, 43 per cent of total calls involved children five and under and just under two-thirds related to ingestion, according to figures provided to CTVNews.ca.
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Post by thyme4change on May 10, 2020 18:18:53 GMT -5
The smell is pretty different.
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Post by NastyWoman on May 10, 2020 19:34:14 GMT -5
The smell is pretty different. and my guess would be that the taste would be more than just a bit off as well. As in "stuff hits tongue, spit out, rinse mouth with a gallon or so of water" off
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Post by thyme4change on May 11, 2020 12:44:02 GMT -5
It seems ridiculous to think anyone, even the dumbest among us, would accidentally drink a bunch of hand sanitizer thinking it was beer because it was in a glass bottle without a pump.
If the problem is idiots will drink it knowing it is hand sanitizer - either because of the sparkling medical advice from Dr. Trump, or in a tide pod challenge type of situation.
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Post by hoops902 on May 11, 2020 15:10:40 GMT -5
It seems ridiculous to think anyone, even the dumbest among us, would accidentally drink a bunch of hand sanitizer thinking it was beer because it was in a glass bottle without a pump. If the problem is idiots will drink it knowing it is hand sanitizer - either because of the sparkling medical advice from Dr. Trump, or in a tide pod challenge type of situation. I'm going to say that if there are still people who believe the Earth is flat...there are people who will drink hand sanitizer packaged in a booze jar thinking it's booze.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 11, 2020 15:59:54 GMT -5
It seems ridiculous to think anyone, even the dumbest among us, would accidentally drink a bunch of hand sanitizer thinking it was beer because it was in a glass bottle without a pump. If the problem is idiots will drink it knowing it is hand sanitizer - either because of the sparkling medical advice from Dr. Trump, or in a tide pod challenge type of situation. I'm going to say that if there are still people who believe the Earth is flat...there are people who will drink hand sanitizer packaged in a booze jar thinking it's booze. Is it a bad thing then if they weed themselves out of the gene pool?
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Post by hoops902 on May 11, 2020 16:02:42 GMT -5
I'm going to say that if there are still people who believe the Earth is flat...there are people who will drink hand sanitizer packaged in a booze jar thinking it's booze. Is it a bad thing then if they weed themselves out of the gene pool? Nope, I've made that argument on a lot of this stuff. The way I see it we're just losing people who were so stupid they were likely to unintentionally lead to a lot of innocent deaths via their stupidity.
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Post by Tiny on May 11, 2020 16:26:09 GMT -5
Impaired people (a little bit drunk, drunk, high) aren't known for making the best decisions - no matter HOW smart they are when they aren't inebriated/high. I can total see where someone who's had a few and think they are just fine - might make the mistake and drink the 'handsanitizer'. I can totally see where kids might imitate their parents and drink it when the kid sees something that looks like a bottle of alcohol.
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