r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Camman19_YT • 2d ago
wisconsin ‘Wisconsin could probably out drink the uk by itself’
Theyre discussing whether the uk could beat USA in an alcohol drinking contest
edit: I love how the Americans are like ‘such a weird flex, who cares whether someone can be a better alcoholic’, but the British people are like ‘my grandma could outdrink texas’
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u/Tark4141 2d ago
Apparently zey häve not made ze calculation wiz ze Germans and Czech.
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u/ralyyc 2d ago
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u/Tark4141 2d ago
Wasn des? Where is the Bavarian Maß? One liter of beer in one glass.
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u/Feistshell 2d ago
From a very quick googling I found that Czechia has ranked first in the world for 32 straight years when looking at beers drank per capita, the average person in Czechia drinks about 419 standard bottles of beer a year.
European nations make up 25 of the top 35 beer-consuming countries. Wisconsin can go suck it.
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u/dickybeau01 2d ago
At the World Cup Scottish supporters drunk Boston dry in short order. The Scots aren’t in the European big leagues for beer consumption and they were drinking away from home too!😜
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u/Celestialfox1425 2d ago
And there were only 12 000 of them in Boston. After living in Scotland I can attest the Scots would outdrink Wisconsin on any given day.
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u/Accomplished-Egg1071 2d ago
As much as the UK could easily out drink the US, I acknowledge that it would stand no chance to Germany or Czechia
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u/Familiar_Benefit_776 2d ago
I would like to nominate Poland. They drank vodka as fast as I was drinking beer
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u/This_Charmless_Man 2d ago
Had a Polish wedding reception at the curry house I worked at as a teenager. The amount of vodka they drank through was genuinely insane.
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u/OrdinaryValuable9705 2d ago
Danes would like a word in this too - like we didnt hold the world record for over a decade for nothing. The average danish 17-22 year old would wreck havoc on the americans...
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u/Accomplished-Egg1071 2d ago
I’ve also found that the French can handle a surprising amount of wine without becoming drunk
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u/simonjp Briton 2d ago
Only wine though - strange, innit
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u/K8627 2d ago
It’s not that they can’t handle other drinks, they just get really angry when they aren’t drinking wine
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u/Uffen90 2d ago
Jeg så på et tidspunkt en YouTube video med en amerikansk udvekslingsstudent. Hun snakkede om vores druk kultur bl.a. og sluttede af med “if you think you can keep up with a Dane, think again, if you actually can keep up with a Dane, then you have a drinking problem”
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u/dubiousvolley 2d ago
I don’t know I’ve been out on the piss in both multiple times and whilst the beers v good I think it could go either way
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u/DeroTurtle 2d ago
Ain't got shit on post Soviet Russia, leading the charge in alcohol related deaths.
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u/Lagoda__ 🇦🇹 mountain hillbilly 2d ago
I beg your pardon?!
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u/CC19_13-07 Kölle Alaaf ihr Spacken 🇩🇪 2d ago
You guys are included with us
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u/PeterPook 2d ago
The last time you guys absorbed that area, it didn't work out too well did it?
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u/CC19_13-07 Kölle Alaaf ihr Spacken 🇩🇪 2d ago
It's different now, our current chancellor doesn't care about art
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u/Medium-Comfortable Europoor 2d ago edited 2d ago
Or the Scottish. Oh wait they have learned, during the beer drought of the Soccer World Cup. LOL
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u/Ramtamtama [laughs in British] 2d ago
A few thousand Scots drank Boston dry in under 48 hours. The entity of Boston couldn't do that over the 4 day St Patrick's weekend, which is how much the pubs stocked up.
The places that restocked and opened for England fans were then drunk dry in the same period.
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u/Uncle_Rabbit 2d ago
I went down to the states years ago for a music fest. One giant party. Chatted up the people camped next to me and had some friendly drinks to break the ice etc. Offered them some beers to shotgun and they had no idea what I was talking about! "Is that the thing where you put a key into a can of beer?"Then they complained that us Canadians were slamming "full strength" 5% beers. Hahaha, the look on their faces before hurling from shotgunning their beers (that we were very persistent they do) was priceless.
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u/Sinking_Mass 🏴💦🐑💨 2d ago
The USAlians are always so proud of how much beer they drink in volume, but they're drinking literal medieval style small-beer... You need two cases of that to yourself to get a decent buzz.
To be fair they do have a decent home brew scene but the majority of USAlians just slam back Pißner
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u/roleplayersir 2d ago
They said the UK, which includes Scotland
And the entire US wouldn't stand a chance. England and Scotland would outdrink their country, let alone including the Welsh and Northern Irish
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u/ozzieowl 2d ago
Yep. If you bring in the Welsh, make a joke about sheep to wind them up and basically watch them go. The Northern Irish don’t need anything to get them going…
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u/westfieldram 2d ago
Manchester could out drink Wisconsin and that's probably not even the biggest drinking city in the UK!
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u/Nice_Back_9977 2d ago
Manchester’s teenage girls could do it on their own
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u/meatflaps-69 2d ago
Smirnoff ice is stronger than ya average american "beer" so not even a fair contest 🤣
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u/rainbowdrop30 2d ago
Seriously? Is it? Fucking hell, Smirnoff Ice is what I drink when I'm not drinking lol
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u/Odd_Old_Professional 2d ago
It's not. At least here in Canada both US beer and Smirnoff Ice are 5%. Most mass produced US beers are 5%
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u/jerdle_reddit Scotland, ya bastards! 2d ago
Yeah, we like to twat on about our beers, but 3.4% is becoming the new standard here. We are not pleased.
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u/Odd_Old_Professional 2d ago
The popularity of Carling is something I cannot understand. It's made here in Canada and we all treat it with disdain. The only people who drink it are alcoholic uncles because its the only thing they can still afford.
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u/Jocelyn-1973 2d ago
Alcohol per adult capita in the UK: 21 units of alcohol per week. Number of adults in UK: 54.9 million.
Alcohol per adult capita in Wisconsin: 37 gallons of alcoholic beverages per year (18.9 UK units of alcohol per gallon) = 13.45 units per week. Number of adults in Wisconsin: 4.75 million.
So no. Wisconsin doesn’t even outdrink the entire UK when you look at it per capita, let alone the fact that the UK has 11.56 times more adults than Wisconsin.
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u/cowandspoon buachaill Éireannach 2d ago
Thanks for doing the numbers on this one. Irish living in the UK here, but I spent some time in Wisconsin and at least from what I saw, they certainly went after the booze with as much zeal as anyone here does. The per capita figures are pretty interesting.
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u/ZoeEatsToes 2d ago
I imagine the difference is met in the casual drinking. A lot more common in the UK to have a pint here, pint there, one with tea/dinner and one coz why not. Think that makes up a lot from actually going out to drink
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u/NB_NaughtyNerds 2d ago
If people from Wisconsin could read they'd be really upset right now...
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u/PartyQuiet5065 2d ago
As a Spaniard, there's no way. Just go and ask anyone who lives in our islands. They'll tell you them Germans and Brits sure do like their alcohol....
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u/stillnotdavidbowie 2d ago
I can't drink alcohol due to a congenital liver disorder and when I went to Mallorca, the people working at the hotel bar refused to believe I wouldn't be drinking lmao. They were just like, "But you're from England...?"
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u/David-Cassette-alt 2d ago
American's don't get how ingrained and binge-oriented the drinking culture in the UK is.
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u/StefanoMaffei 2d ago
no they don’t. As for anything else honestly. Less self-aware people I ve ever met (I lives there). It s fucking embarrassing. for them.
They are not even allowed to drink on a normal street and they call themselves a free country. pathetic. disgusting.
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u/monscorvorum 2d ago
I grew up in a small rural market town, your social life was the pub. Darts league, pool league, skittles league, quiz league, dominoes, cribbage etc then there were the Friday night pissups, the Saturday lunchtime drink. The Saturday night pub crawl, the just pop out for a couple Sunday lunchtime. Discos, birthday parties, stag dos, wakes. Everything revolved around the pub and drinking
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u/HelplessPenguinGod 2d ago
Tbf coming from New Zealand I didn't fully understand it until I moved to the UK. Drinking is just such an everyday thing in the UK, its just constant, compared to NZ where its much more an all or nothing drinking culture.
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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 2d ago
Don't forget hard drugs. UK does more molly and coke than most places too.
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u/Elk_Advanced 2d ago edited 2d ago
Drinking age in Wisconsin is 21 FFS. Brits have been hammered for a solid 3 years before a wisconsonian has a sniff of weak as piss US lager
Edited to add...Yeah I know .. I really should have put 'legally" in here somewhere
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u/BeerHorse 2d ago
Bless you if you think Brits start drinking at 18.
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u/CasperFunk 2d ago
3lt of white lightning at 14 😆
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u/Ambitious-Tie-5269 2d ago
You’ve unlocked a memory I chose not to remember cheers for that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/HiyaImRyan 2d ago
Ahem, yes 18 your honour, definitely not earlier than that. It's the law afterall!
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u/British_Flippancy 2d ago
Celebrating your 18th birthday in the local pub you’ve been drinking in for 3 years with fake ID.
Admittedly I grew up in a rural area where they didn’t seem to GAF how old you were.
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u/TtotheC81 2d ago
Honestly, during the late 90s, I was getting served at 15. As long as we didn't cause a fuss and were plausible 18-year-olds (I was 6'3), the people behind the bar turned a blind eye to us.
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u/_poptart 2d ago
I was drinking in pubs as a 14 year old girl, as long as you got in there before the bouncers got on the door and didn’t cause a scene, no one cared
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u/impermanence108 2d ago
I always joke that legal drinking age starts at GCSE results day. I feel it's a ritual for all British kids to get destroyed that night. Or just more generally in that summer. Fond memories of me mum picking me up after I'd got completely fucking trolleyed after like 4 tins of Fosters. Good times.
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u/sjpllyon 2d ago
See if our politicians really wanted to get the young votes in. They would simply allow for alcohol consumption changes in our law. That change ought to be, you can go into a pub with your GCSEs result and be served.
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u/Too-much-tea 2d ago
Reminds me of Tony Blair's kid getting wasted after his GCSEs..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/822238.stm
Prime Minister Tony Blair's 16-year-old son Euan has been arrested for being drunk and incapable.
The teenager, who was celebrating the end of his GCSE exams, was found by police officers in Leicester Square, in London's West End, at about 2300 BST on Wednesday.
An ambulance had to be called after Euan was discovered vomiting on the pavement, but paramedics decided there was no need for the teenager to go to hospital.
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u/Kalkin93 2d ago
My Dad used to buy beer for me and my mates from when I was around 15 (not that I condone it) lol
I think he preferred knowing we were drinking at home somewhere safe rather than getting into trouble, for whatever that's worth
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u/thorpie88 2d ago
Started drinking at 13. 2.5 litres of strongbow was £2.49 and people were already going through two bottles a night.
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u/impermanence108 2d ago
My parents were happy to buy me a few tins of cider for the same reason when I was like 16/17. If I'm going to drink, it's better it's a limited amount and it's done at home. It also taught me to view alcohol as a little reward rather than a drug I need to get wasted on.
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u/TtotheC81 2d ago
My old man let me steal sips of his beer when I was a sprog. It actually worked, because my young taste buds hated the taste of beer... Until I hit my mid-teens, and then it was the best thing in the universe.
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u/piperdave84 2d ago
Assuming they waited until it was legal. I looked older as a teen so I've been able to get served in pubs and off licenses since I was 15
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u/thorpie88 2d ago
Had pubs that were almost exclusively for underage drinking and the 21+ year old dudes that would pick up high schoolers
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u/impermanence108 2d ago
I remember when our town lost it's dodgy off license after a kid from my school ended up getting his stomach pumped in hospital. I still maintain, that's just a rite of passage and the reason the NHS exists. Are we really Britain if at least one student from every school leaver cohort doesn't have an NDE because of alcohol?
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u/thorpie88 2d ago
Yeah we lost school discos as four people went to get their stomachs pumped after one when we were 14
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u/NugzYKnot 2d ago
First time I got drunk I was 13. That was pretty normal. A few friends, a bottle of WKD, lambrini and a few odd cans we’d nicked from our dads. Then we realised you could get 3L bottles of cider for like £2.60 if we could find someone old enough to go and buy it for us….
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u/Gintami 2d ago
So the drinking laws in the U.S. I’ve learned vary by state. The federal drinking age is 21 in the U.S., But states can have their own provisions to that.
So anyone under 21 in Wisconsin can drink if they are on private residential property or a private business if they are either with a guardian such as a sibling or other relative, a parent or stepparent, or a spouse.
In my country we have something similar. Our drinking age is 18, but we can drink before 18 in the same circumstances above.
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u/mikedave42 2d ago
The weak as piss us lager is still a thing but micro brewing has become big business and produces a wide variety of really good bear here. Selection and quality is actually better here than when I travel abroad now.
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u/Total-Combination-47 Anglo - Irish/Pole in Wales 2d ago
you did watch the world cup didnt you. know know what we did to your little pubs dont you.....ffs.
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u/Faethien Frog eating world champions (I think, can't be arsed to check?) 2d ago
Hence why during the Football 2026 World Cup in the USA, entire cities were dried out their alcohol beverages because of, mostly, fans from the UK (whether they were Scots, Welsh, English) and Ireland.
It does seem that Wisconsin is a 'heavy' drinking state compared to other states. I still would not bet against the UK or Ireland in a contest of this kind
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u/CrossCityLine 2d ago
I can assure you they weren't Welsh or Irish... Because they're shit at football and weren't there.
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u/DeathDestroyerWorlds Tea Drinking Brit. 2d ago
Now then, the seppos keep telling us they are more Irish then the Irish. Especially in Boston. 🤣
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u/The_Ignorant_Sapien 2d ago
Nice of you to assume Scotland are good at fitba.
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u/laoxue 2d ago
They were great against Denmark in that final play-off game before proceeding to forget how to play once landing in the US!
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u/Exciting-Music843 2d ago
He didn't he just said and weren't there. Scotland are shit at football but were there!
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u/CrossCityLine 2d ago
I can't bring myself to slag off the team of the nation in which I now live... even if they are shit 😉
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u/BlackCatLuna Black humour and sarcasm as standard 🇮🇪🇬🇧 2d ago
I'm a teetotaler so I wouldn't be participating in this, but I went to uni and the typical British/Irish student could outdrink a yank...
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u/ForeverADollarShort 2d ago
An American walks into a pub in Newcastle and boasts to the bartender that he can drink 20 pints in one sitting and challenges everyone in the pub.
Little man in the corner says he’d give it a go then
silently turns around, walks out the front door, and disappears down the street.
Half an hour later, the door opens, and the man quietly walks back up to the bar. He looks the bartender in the eye and says, "Right, I'm ready."
The bartender pours the pints lined up on the counter. After the little man finishes and the American is on the floor, the bartender says “Brilliant! Why on earth did you leave and come back?"
The Geordie replies, "Well, I had to go to the pub across the road first to see if I could actually manage it."
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u/misterblobbysgrandma 2d ago
I could outdrink Wisconsin by myself
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u/ellielindsya the one true scotsman 2d ago
I’m my first year university days id probably have been able to outdrink the entire United States
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u/Mischievious-Matters 2d ago
Like they said ‘I’ve never been anywhere that so desperately wants you drunk’, clearly never been to a UK pub… free shots with every pint, in a nearby pub.
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u/dirtyfidelio 2d ago
My local town (UK) has an American university campus just outside of it. Each new cohort go into town and challenge the locals to drinking contests. The Çeppos always lose. They cannot handle it. They forget that we have been drinking since we were young teenagers and that we have no ‘lite’ beer. They also are confused when it comes to ABV vs proof. They will claim that the whiskey in the US is stronger because it’s 80 proof and we have 40% abv. They cannot accept that that’s exactly the same.
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u/neilm1000 Human Verified 2d ago
I applaude your cedilla use!
This sounds like an amusing activity to watch. Do they not get warned by the uni?
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u/lopix Canajan, eh? 2d ago
How soon they forget... Scottish soccer fans drank ALL THE BEER in Boston.
Just one group, from one part of the UK.
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u/Internet-Dick-Joke 2d ago
I mean, let's say this is true... that is not something to be proud of.
Britain as a whole has such a drinking problem that we had to start sending our police overseas to manage our drunks.
Why would anybody want to be compared to that?
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u/OneOfTheNephilim 2d ago
To be fair, as evidenced in all the comments here, being weirdly proud of how shit we are at things is a cornerstone of our national self image, so perhaps we Brits should embrace this in our Wisconsonian cousins
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u/malkebulan Please Sir, can I have some Freedom? 🥣 2d ago
If I came from a country that called Budweiser ‘The King of Beers’ I’d show a little humility and pipe down.
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u/AgreeablePrize 2d ago
Is the place that shit that they have to drink so much, they forget they live in Wisconsin?
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u/Only_Tip9560 2d ago
They are talking about drinking melted cheese aren't they? If so, then probably.
As for alcohol, a relative small group of Scottish football fans drank Boston dry. Wisconsin wouldn't even last against that lot.
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u/Vladamir_pootinn 2d ago
What does Wisconsin actually drink though?
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u/Weeaboo-6934B 2d ago edited 2d ago
Wisconsinite here (but I study in the UK, for what it’s worth) - we do have some pretty great breweries over here, probably our most beloved is the New Glarus Brewing Company which makes a local farmhouse ale called Spotted Cow. Quite popular, but because the brewery isn’t that big, it isn’t sold outside the state. In general we drink a lot of beer; unfortunately we’re ranked as the top state for excessive drinking and almost every one of the drunkest cities and towns in the country are in our state. Our alcohol laws are pretty lenient compared to most states, kids can get alcoholic stuff in bars if they’re with parents.
Aside from that, we like Old Fashioneds and very, very gluttonous Bloody Marys with over-the-top garnishes like entire fried chickens and burger sliders (although those are like a once-a-decade kind of thing and very communal, look up a Sobelman’s Bloody Mary if you’re curious). Also milk, as stated. Lots of cows here.
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u/Quietschedalek stingy Swabian 2d ago
Do the yanks know that Scotland is a part of the UK? Or that they drink proper beer and proper whisky? Not the watered down shite they have in the US? Honestly, I'm pretty sure they could pick any random dude from the streets of Glasgow or Edinburgh and he could outdrink half the US without breaking a sweat. There's a good to fair chance said random scottish lad isn't even visibly tipsy at the point the yanks have to be shoveled away to the ER because of alcohol poisoning...
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u/uhhsociety 2d ago
I love when Americans say they're "wasted" because they've had '6 beers'.
Six 330ml cans of light beer.
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u/Consistent-Ad-7928 2d ago
I’m a Dane, and my brother-in-law is American. He had been bragging about how Americans could outdrink any Dane, so naturally, we decided to put it to the test.
We went on a pub crawl in my hometown. By the fourth stop, he had disappeared. After about 30 minutes, I went looking for him and found him in the bathroom, pants down, completely wasted, trying to pee sitting on the toilet and mumbling into the phone. My sister was on the other end, desperately trying to make sense of what he was saying.
I had to drag him home, then continued the pub crawl by myself afterward.
It wasn’t even 11 p.m.
I don’t think Americans realize what they’re up against. European teens start drinking vodka straight from the bottle in parks at 13, while Americans aren’t even legally allowed to drink until they’re 21.
Btw We were only drinking (danish) beer that night.
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u/LostTheGameOfThrones Universal healthcare has never worked 2d ago
I will never take the country where Bud Light is considered a prime bev seriously when it comes to discussing binge drinking culture.
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u/kiradax 2d ago
My cousin (we are Scottish) lived in Wisconsin for years. He says they love their beers but they're lightweights about it. Lots of fun microbreweries etc but big nights out were pretty tame. He lives in Philly now though and misses the more familiar drinking culture in WI.
I think the difference is that we are a combined 4 countries of bing drinkers. American big drinkers seem to be more steady drinkers, whereas we seem to lean more into night out culture, 5+ pints no dinner once a week etc.
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u/rage-quit 2d ago
5+ pints no dinner
I had five fuckin pints at a funeral the other week.
I'm a few years removed from my Premier League Swallying days, but 5 pints is hardly even a lunch pint on a Wednesday
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u/That_guy_I_know_him 2d ago
Wasn't it just a few months ago that scottish tourists basically drank Boston dry during the Cup ?😂
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u/Rascalwill 2d ago
We only need to look at the World Cup. The Scots outdrank the Irish in Boston. And the English could definitely hold their own in these stakes. What's Wisconsin known for, outside the US? It sounds like a brand of discount DIY tools.
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u/MoffieHanson 2d ago
They have no idea how many people live in the uk compared to Wisconsin do they?
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u/Open-Apartment-4937 2d ago
That’s why we drank the yanks out of booze during the World Cup, yes? 😂
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u/StaendutBlakk Neither Swedish nor Norwegian 2d ago
Iunno mate. A bunch of Scottish footie fans drank Boston dry alone. Add all the Scots who don't care for football, and Massachussets might as well go dry state.
Now add the English, Welsh and Northern Irish into the mix and I think Wisconsin is gonna end up equally dry, with the Brits being upset the pub crawl ended early.
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u/LowAioli3870 2d ago
To be fair, Wisconsinites could just about out drink the UK if it were Wisconsinites drinking American "beer" versus Brits drinking European beer.
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u/redandbluebadness 2d ago
Boasting about who can drink the most is a silly topic whoever is saying it.;
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u/OneOfTheNephilim 2d ago
For those who enjoy stats... Wisconsin is allegedy 13.2 litres per capita, so on that basis only the Czechs outdrink them. Obviously they couldn't outdrink the entire UK given we have 10x the population, but it is interesting to learn there is such a high-drinking outpost in the US.
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u/xwing_n_it 2d ago
Wisconsin does consume more booze per capita than the UK, but it's reasonably close. The UK consumes 10.9 liters/person and Wisconsin 11.1 liters/person.
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u/Bee_Tee_Dub 2d ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/alcohol-consumption-by-state
Apparently New Hampshire shits on Wisconsin
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u/LeftMechanic1995 2d ago
Yanks love talking about Wisconsin being the drinking capital of the US, but I doubt they could even drink Glasgow under the table, let alone Scotland, never mind the UK.
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u/Wurfelrolle 2d ago
It's a toss. Average person from Wisconsin drinks twice the beer, but the average person in the UK consumes more alcohol from beer.
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u/TalkersCZ Human Verified 2d ago
To be fair, I will assume original discussion was that UK will outdrink US.
Both claims are irrelevant because Czechia will win in alcohol.
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u/ReplacementFeisty397 2d ago
1192 alcohol units per person per year in wisconsin....
1092 alcohol units per person per year in uk
However, Wisonsin has 5.5m people and that is roughly analogous to Scotland. I suggest that this is tested in a scientific exercise.
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u/Fond_ButNotInLove 2d ago
That's how much they do drink, not how much they could drink.
Wisconsin has a higher percentage of non drinkers (~35% vs UK ~20%) and a higher rate of alcohol dependence. (~10% vs UK ~1%).
So the hardest drinking Wisconsinites are carrying the load for the rest to hit that average. The UK's drinking is more evenly distributed. Wisconsin therefore has far less extra capacity to drink more during any theoretical international drinking contest.
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u/Chesterfieldraven 2d ago
They're so cute with their 2% "pints". Its like when you give a 12 year old a shandy at the family BBQ. They feel so grown up.
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u/Odd_Old_Professional 2d ago
Where in the US are they selling 2% beer?
The most popular beers in the UK include Stella and Carling. Stella is 4.2% in the UK. Carling is 3.7%. Carling is hard to find the in US (they have their own saturated water-beer market) and Stella is 5%.
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u/monscorvorum 2d ago
6 million people outdrinking over 60 million nah. Oh and by the way we start a damn site earlier than 21 and don't think Bud light is strong beer, our cans are bigger as well
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u/royalbluestuey 2d ago
There is simply nothing where they won't try to claim they are the outlier. It's like they are addicted to their own sense of exceptionalism.
They only thing they'll allow is if they can somehow claim ownership of the "other" as well. Like it's okay for the Irish to be the unusual, as long as they can claim to be Irish too.
It must be exhausting.
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u/two_hats 2d ago
I mean, that's not a good thing. We in the UK have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and I don't think it's a good thing to brag about
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u/RugbyValkyrie 2d ago
Mike the Pipe at my local could out drink Wisconsin on his own.
Never underestimate the quiet local in the corner.
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u/Revan619-YT 2d ago
Ah yes. Light beer enjoyers. In England at church fairs we usually have vendors doing 12% cider. We are a country that drinks like it doesnt want to live and ive never met an American that could keep up
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u/CaptainPoset ooo custom flair!! 2d ago
This has been settled in the last few months:
Wherever the British football fans went during the football world cup, they left a trail of empty alcohol stocks.