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Over the past few weeks I've been amusing myself by trying to stick to the government's recommended weekly allowance of booze (14 units for women, 21 for men). I've been more or less on target during the week but weekends are definitely the challenge.
Now 14 units equates roughly to one large (250ml) glass of wine per day, or two bottles per week (I'm a wine drinker with occasional cocktails). While this is not so tough in theory, there's the fact that I am often out during the week and so I can't really save up my allowance for weekend blow-outs. (Not that three glasses on Friday and three on Saturday counts as a crazy alcoholic binge). So if I go out on three weekdays and have two glasses of wine in an evening, I can reach Friday and have one glass "left" for the whole weekend.
I suppose I could stop seeing my friends during the week, or else go to coffee shops instead - which would be fine by me except that most of them, even in London, close at around 7pm. And it seems a bit silly to go to a pub/bar and not drink. And I don't like shitty pub fruit juices and shitty pub coffee. Last time I was off the booze I drank lime and soda pretty much exclusively, but that got really, really boring really quickly.
Also, I do think that the Government "allowance" is unrealistically low for a country in which over 90% of the population drinks and there is a nationwide pub culture to the extent that places that serve alcohol (pubs, bars, restaurants) are literally almost the only places you can socialise after 7pm. Except Bar Italia, which fills up pretty quick.
Anyone else tried this experiment? |
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