OverSimplified - Prohibition *ON THE BEER* REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@timhefty504]

Fun fact, NASCAR technically started because of Prohibition. The people that would transport alcohol from one place to the other would make alterations to their cars so they would be able to quickly escape the police if needed. Pretty soon contests were made for these drivers to determine who had the fastest car, and they got so popular that they became more organized races, and on actual tracks. Much more interesting origin story than F1

[@SAVikingSA]

This is.... maybe 33% true. It's a great story that NASCAR used, and there were moonshine runners in NASCAR, but the beach race was the catalyst and modified stock cars popped up everywhere east of the Mississippi as far north as New England immediately after WWII. It was a confluence of events with a semi-mythical origin story, and it probably owes as much to northern horse racing dirt tracks as it does moonshiners in a farm field. A bigger influence was probably the large return of young men from WWII trained on high performance machinery. That's what really drove auto racing of all kinds in the US in the late 40s and early 50's.

[@whenthedustfallsaway]

@@SAVikingSA You might be right, but shine runners in the Carolinas and Tennessee did indeed lessen the weight of their cars to evade police and have competitions between eachother. Stock car racing has its origins at least in part here. NASCAR itself wasn't a direct result of this, but an indirect result of the popularization of stock car races in the US and (As you said) the increase in men capable of operating such machinery.

[@ShawnTheDriver]

Maybe a more interesting origin story but F1 is way better as a sport.

[@sld1776]

There was racing before prohibition. The leading US ace in WWI was a stock car driver.

[@nohomoedgelordallenioso5005]

Nascar is stock car racing so it has nothing to do with alterations to the cars. Cars were altered to be faster during prohibition but nascar is literally the opposite, they are supposed to be uniform. Nascar was inspired by early races between bootleggers though.

[@jeffburdick869]

my grandma was born to German immigrants in Syracuse NY in 1920. Her next door neighbors were Italian immigrants. My grandma's parents would brew their own beer in their house. And they'd trade some of it for wine brewed by their Italian neighbors.

[@jeffburdick869]

@Butt Whole evidently, they do.

[@StevenCryar]

This is beautiful

[@armandoborrelli8852]

alcohol uniting people since forever

[@tomwilkinson1568]

My dad was a beer runner after graduating high school in 1924. He had some great stories from here in Nebraska

[@tristanyoung1043]

Thats pretty cool tbh. He was around the same age as my great grandpa and i wish i couldve heard some of my grandpas stories. But by the time i was old enough (to at least) remember stories he was getting very close to the end and struggled to speak and do anything.

[@bharathisockalingam5464]

Are you dead

[@HaiBeast]

Go Big Red!

[@tomwilkinson1568]

@@bharathisockalingam5464 not yet, but close

[@weegeeboi2063]

@@tomwilkinson1568 How old are you?

[@SherriLyle80s]

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, and in water there is bacteria.”

[@tylerwhite9923]

So what's in Whiskey?

[@SherriLyle80s]

@@tylerwhite9923 A hangover 😂

[@Chilidog200x]

@@SherriLyle80s nearly spit out my vodka XD

[@Andrew9908]

@@Chilidog200x what’s in your vodka?

[@Chilidog200x]

@@Andrew9908 Its a white Russian so filled with ice, 2 shots of Smirnoff vodka, 2 shots of kalua, half n half, and topped of with Italian sweet cream.

[@gunship4720]

By the look on yalls faces, if the UK tried to ban alcohol, the whole damn nation would burn down in the matter of minutes lmfao

[@elhadj3475]

ha

[@Birick]

Brexit?

[@kaylons]

@@Birick Beerxit

[@kayzeaza]

Long time ago they banned gin and that’s exactly what happened

[@AK-jt7kh]

Are these guys from the UK? I just started watching their channel.

[@michaeldesanta977]

*Fun Fact:* Lynchburg Tennessee, which is located in, and is the county seat of, Moore County Tennessee, is home to the *Jack Daniel's Distillery,* despite Moore County itself being a dry county. So, you cannot legally buy *Jack Daniel's* in the city where it is made.

[@ketaminefrog3897]

They forgot the part where the guys who had the fast bootlegging cars started competing and ended up calling it nascar

[@ketaminefrog3897]

@Rheumattica bro it’s literally not false... Junior Johnson one of the most well known racers in nascar history was a bootlegger

[@Dawsonsincedawsonstaken]

Oversimplified is definitely one of my favorite channels

[@drewgamezzz8482]

They're definitely one of the best channels on KZbin frfr! I mean its such a great format to teach people history, but in a very entertaining, yet simplified way. It's amazing!

[@MyMonsterguy]

Don’t forget about the Office blokes!

[@drewgamezzz8482]

@@MyMonsterguy I was gonna say them as well, but since we are in their comments I kinda assumed it would be something that didn't even need to be said lmao!

[@kawaiipinkbunnychu]

Same! I got my sister hooked too

[@surviver5738]

@@kawaiipinkbunnychu stop getting your sister hooked on alcohol and drugs

[@jartstopsign]

My great grandad used to take the "scenic route" back to his house from where I lived to show me this place in northern Iowa to point out a rock cave where bootleggers like his brother made moonshine during that nonsense. You could see an opening into the rock and I still go out of my way to see it as I laugh every time

[@wyatt8621]

sounds like an amazing guy, i sure miss my grandpa and his crazy stories.

[@jartstopsign]

@@wyatt8621 WW2 vet and jokester as well, doesn't get much better than that lol

[@jartstopsign]

@Butt Whole He was mostly tasked building an air base in the pacific, I don't think he did anything out of line

[@TexArizocan]

All of Europe was won in Europe durimg ww2 except UK

[@TexArizocan]

Germany had taken majority of Europe

[@anastasia.00]

My ukranian grandma used to give me a shot of vodka when i had a flu as a kid . Worked every single time :')

[@gordieparenteau6555]

Jagermeister also does the trick.

[@anastasia.00]

@@gordieparenteau6555 true true 👀

[@mooseot]

Bet you pretended to be sick a lot :p

[@jeffburdick869]

A full shot?! damn! I remember having my mom put a couple of drops of whiskey on her finger tip and then touching my gums with it when I was teething. But a full shot is a lot for a kid!

[@anastasia.00]

@@jeffburdick869 in fact, i just slept all day and woke up all healed lol

[@mwest3191]

My dad ALWAYS talks about “when beer was cleaner than water” 😂

[@Khajiitslayer]

This is the quality content I’ve been waiting for

[@willvr4]

Weed is only a gateway drug in the sense that when you buy it illegal from a dealer, a lot of those dealers are also pushing harder drugs. It's legal in 15 states here now in America and it has done nothing other than bring in more tax revenue for the states.

[@henryofskalitz5212]

If anything, tobacco is a gateway drug. Don't think I would have been intrested in smoking weed if I never got into smoking with tobacco. The jump from one to the other wasn't too massive as I was already use to the act of smoking. Ultimatly, the only gateway into drugs is avalibility.

[@brownjatt21]

Yea i wouldn't say has brought nothing but tax revenue. States that have legalized weed have seen like double triple in driving while under the influence related crashes n deaths. I'm Pro legalization for sure but it's not all rainbows.

[@Sam-im5tc]

Prohibition is a classic example of "Just because you CAN ban something. Doesn't mean you SHOULD"

[@ThePandemicFlu]

And you have my 2 favorite bourbons! I knew I liked you guys for a reason.

[@OfficeBlokes]

We are trying them in an hour over on Office Blokes Try 👍

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

If you want to see this history acted out, watch "Boardwalk Empire." Kickass show.

[@carmelizedolive5832]

yes!! love this show omg

[@dyslexiaforfoundcure]

great show just like Sopranos and just like Sopranos, shitty ending :(

[@cov9290]

@@dyslexiaforfoundcure I loved the sopranos ending

[@bracejuice7955]

I’m all for longer videos! Please do oversimplified civil war soon!

[@SomethingSeemsOff]

Mike lives by, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it" when making these videos but he can't hide his facial expressions very well lol

[@SherriLyle80s]

I uses to have a hot toddy made by my dad when I had a cold or strep. It didnt replace things like antibiotics for strep, but it numbed the throat and helped me sleep when I was a kid. Hot black tea brand Rose Tea with Crown Royal whiskey, honey and lemon. I was definitely a country girl growing up so lots of colds and injuries and running around barefoot.

[@peterblood50]

America has had over 60 years of cannabis prohibition and the results are very similar. Thank the lord we are beginning to roll it back. Glad you mentioned it.

[@newgrl]

The county in Tennessee that the Jack Daniels distillery is located in, Moore County, is a dry county. There are laws that allow the distillery specifically to sell bottles of Jack Daniels at their gift shop and recently, a tasting tour has been allowed, but other than the distillery, no alcohol can be sold in Lynchburg or the surrounding area since the days of prohibition.

[@voxveritas333]

crazy, but a fun fact. I'm sure the county profits in its tax revenues.

[@vietimports]

"what's wrong with oklahoma?" that's what the rest of us are wondering too

[@darreljones8645]

Oklahoma clung to its prohibition for another quarter-century because Oklahomans are a.) mostly rural, and b.) VERY religious.

[@Tattletale-Delta]

@@darreljones8645 Unless you're in the cities where most of the populations are.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

That's not what I'm wondering. I'm wondering what's wrong with California, NY, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington - I'm sure I'm missing a few others that have let their Antifa/BLM mobs destroy their cities.

[@vietimports]

@@mortimerbrewster3671 maga brain rot

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

@@vietimports Soooo, you support burning down cities, destroying businesses and peoples lives, and murder. Got it.

[@noneprovided689]

23:54 - Dave’s question about blindness. While it is possible that some of the toxins that were used as deterrents during prohibition did cause blindness, that is not the primary reason that it is anecdotally associated with moonshine. When grain mash is distilled, the first liquid produced is acetone, which is known to cause blindness if ingested. If the acetone is allowed to mix with the product (as inexperienced still operators may have allowed to happen), blindness is a possible result.

[@Krawnbundungle]

I was pretty sure that the blindness was because when you make ethanol that way you also make some methanol, when ethanol is metabolized it turns into harmless acetic acid but methanol turns into formic acid and/or formaldehyde 💀

[@noneprovided689]

@@Krawnbundungle Oh, that’s quite possible. I don’t really know the chemistry aspect of the process, I just picked that up while reading/watching some instructional-er, uh, I mean, _informative_ programs about it. That, and I later confirmed it with a neighbor who made the stuff, and knew all the ins and outs. Then again, he made some 180+ proof stuff-outright *rocket fuel* …so who knows whether he still had his facts straight.

[@crystaldallavalle6978]

I've had some good times drinking in my younger years....danced on a few tables, had heart to heart convos with lampshades........

[@BurakkuHishou]

My parents would give us peppermint shcnapps to help us sleep at night as kids. My parents also kept an open alcohol cabinet and said "You can have whatever you want" to basically remove the taboo, and while we were growing up, my dad let us try various liqueur, but it was always some of the hardest stuff. So that way, as kids, we would associate all alcohol with the hardest stuff that burned like crazy.

[@davidwilson6093]

Hell yea I’ve been waiting for this for a while lol, cheers guys I just popped one open 🍻

[@walleye364]

I live in Wisconsin. Many of the bars in the Northern Part said picc off to the government rules. My friend took me to the bar in a small town. I said "We can't the bars are closed" He said " They are?" LOL. The lights were on low and sign lights were off, But there happen to be a few "Personal guests" having a family gathering inside. I know here, there are bars that close the doors to most people at 2am, but they will stay open to locals who they know well. I remember sitting in the bar until 7am in the morning. That's probably the case around the world. mostly smaller towns with one Barney Fife cop.

[@TreyM1609]

My mom and dad used to give me a couple shots of whiskey when I had a bad cough no doubt. But I was raised in the 80’s

[@CanPen92]

Same. And I was raised in the 90s.

[@Rigatony32]

Watching this, and a Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy ad pops up. That had me rolling 🤣

[@normal-potato05]

I recommend reacting to the Civil War by Oversimplified

[@emmauelbenoit459]

Yeah These guys should had done a reacting to civil war I've been waiting for months

[@imme6954]

The only questions I missed on the driver license test were related to alcohol. 🤣 Not because I drink but because I don't. (Yes l live in a "dry" state) As usual, great reaction. Home Free's cover of "Moonshine" goes well with this.

[@CRS253]

45:47 "What's wrong with Oklahoma?" As someone who lives in Oklahoma, the comment section isn't long enough. Put it this way; in October **2018** a law went into effect that allowed grocery/convenience stores to sell beer of up to 9% alcohol, and wine up to 15% alcohol. And still, only 7 of the 77 counties allow alcohol sales on Sunday of packaged liquor. Granted, 5 of the 7 counties are home to, or part of, the two largest metro areas in the state, with combined pupulations greater than 50% of the entire state. Basically, we're getting there. But hey! We got that medical marijuana! So that's fun.

[@LancerX916]

When they legalized weed here in California I think the state makes like 3+ billion a year on taxes from it. It has become a huge business. Plus they let about 200K out of prison who went because of weed arrests.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Not to mention that all the crap that big Pharma, and their paid politicians, said would happen if weed was legalized, has not happened. Big Pharma has always been the big problem, because a cheap, easy to grow weed was going to lose them billions for Xanax, Valium, etc.. They're always behind the big money poured into "No on weed" campaigns.

[@areguapiri]

@@ClayLoomis1958 Big pharma/b. gates is behind this billion dollar worldwide cvd19 shamdemic.

[@MeMyself_andAI]

Waking up and seeing this is a treat - happy easter gents, thanks for the amazing content

[@Fuzz32]

And this is sadly one of the reasons America is hesitant to ban guns outright. The concern among politicians and some citizens is that outlawing guns will lead to these types of issues. And too many people are talking about “defunding” the police as it is.

[@ninline2000]

My uncle had a shed in his yard right next to the road which curved around his house. He left both sides open so you could see into it from the road as you rode by. The authorities knew he made booze and searched all over his property, up and down the creek banks, through nasty brush and terrain. Meanwhile, he had the still hidden in the shed next to the road.

[@jacthing1]

It's funny how when you expect something to be hidden (or if you say put something down somewhere obvious but think it surely won't be there) you will more often then not completely miss it even if your looking right at it.

[@fanofauburn11]

I believe a lot of the women’s were often beat by their drunk husbands and that’s why were so against alcohol. Back then men probably weren’t arrested for that

[@andrewward3184]

"buncha miserable tight asses" I choked 🤣🤣🤣

[@GroinStrain_]

React to Oversimplified on the Cold War, I know it's long but it would be considering it covers 1917 to 1990. But it's so worth watching absolutely

[@user-gk8ss6mt1d]

an on the beer video occasionally would be awesome. love your guys stuff, funniest and most relatable group of non americans i can think of.

[@cmillivol98]

I’m 22 and even though my parents never did it, I do have a few friends my age whose parents would give them moonshine or whiskey when they had a cold or something. I’ve heard it helps so🤷🏽‍♂️

[@danielhowe2218]

Fun fact: Prohibition (and the end of it) indirectly started stock car racing. A.K.A. NASCAR. Bootleggers were modifying their cars to outrun the cops, until eventually they just started racing each other.

[@drewgamezzz8482]

I stg I'm so glad I found this channel man, these guys legit bring me so much joy and make my day better on even my worst of days. I just turn on the react or try channel and just binge any videos I haven't seen. But yeah, tbh, I don't think I would've ever found these guys if I didn't watch so many Ally Law/Ryan Taylor videos and occasionally some Usamallama or however he spells it lol. But I started watching Ally about 3 or so years ago and got put onto Ryan cause of him and I just started actually looking for and watching British KZbin channels and then obviously found these guys about 3 or so months ago and have been binging them ever since lol. But these guys are amazing, and my main thing I like about them is the wide range and variety of videos that they watch, like one video will be food videos, and then the next will be one of my fav youtubers, some OverSimplified channel, it's amazing.

[@dougunderwood2313]

There were reports of the Spanish flu in Asia a year before it was discovered in America. It was NOT discovered in an American Army base first, but it did end up there and we took it with us to Europe.

[@Cruxador]

The blinding is from methanol alcohol, it shouldn't be in booze that you drink but if someone doesn't know what they're doing you can get some in there. Jury nullification used to be a big thing in America, Eadward Muybridge (guy who invented video) also famously got off for murdering the man that impregnated his wife because he'd told the guy to stop messing around with her ahead of time, and nobody in the jury could say they wouldn't have done the same thing.

[@birch5757]

"If you tell Americans not to do something, it's the one thing they'll definitely do." Just a friendly reminder that we are all basically toddlers, folks.

[@jacthing1]

It's like the age old thing about if you label a button "DO NOT PUSH" people will press it.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

Don't worry about America going back. Recreational weed is legal in 15 states now, with more eyeballing it every day. With Canada now legal, you can drive from Nome, Alaska to the Mexican border (about 4000 miles, or 6400 kilometers) and get legal weed the whole way. Alcohol has a new best buddy, and neither one are going away any time soon.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

@derp derpin Let's be fair here - Indica makes potheads sit around at home. Sativa makes potheads play Frisbee or go to Disneyland.

[@kensteel9872]

Excellent choices on the table there guys. I live 30 minutes away from Buffalo Trace Distillery!

[@JPMadden]

1) My Irish-American grandmother was a teenage girl in the 1920s. She helped her father run a small grocery or general store near Boston. She told me they had a hidden compartment under the floor where they kept illegal liquor that they sold. I wish I had asked her for more details. 2) I'm always amazed how quickly American society recognized the failure of Prohibition and ended it. IMHO, admitting we're doing something wrong is a chief obstacle to solving our problems. For example, we cannot bring ourselves to end the Drug War, which is really Prohibition 2.0 and has been just as big a failure as the first against alcohol. 3) If you want to learn more, watch the Ken Burns documentary "Prohibition." I would imagine it's available in the UK. 4) At 29:10, Kevin Costner is mentioned. That's a reference to the excellent movie "The Untouchables." Also starring are Sean Connery as an Irish cop and Robert de Niro as Al Capone. 5) There is a small wealthy town near me in New England that until 2011 was "semi-dry." Since the end of Prohibition, sale of alcohol for off-premise consumption had been banned, but it was legal to serve liquor at the local expensive restaurants, the country club, and the yacht club. (Wouldn't want the few poor people in town to drink and cause trouble.) Eventually a local referendum changed this absurd law.

[@Metrion77]

You are absolutely correct. The term "blind drunk" came from the presence of methanol in booze. Unlike ethanol (grain alcohol), methanol (wool alcohol) could build up in the optic nerve in your eyes and cause temporary blindness that can become permanent. It is present in pretty much any mash, but professional distillers know that methanol boils at a slightly lower temperature than ethanol, so when distilling, they always threw away the first 10%-20% that came out (the heads). To try and keep people from using things like mouthwash or rubbing alcohol for booze, the government began forcing producers to use methanol rather than ethanol. Of course, they were intentionally replacing an edible product with a poison, but when people started going blind, they blamed alcohol in general.

[@jeffburdick869]

2:57 I have to imagine that the forklift crashing into the house reminded Mike of work.

[@sweden7675]

So I wasn't the only person thinking that.

[@coryspang7548]

Ah yes, my home state of Ohio was where the anti-alcohol protests started. Interesting

[@ALMASTERFUNK]

Fun fact: Yeungling Brewery in Pottsville Pennsylvania (Americas oldest brewery). Was the first ones to ship beer directly after prohibition and take a guess where that first case went.... The White House. How ironic.

[@junietunes2148]

One of my great grandmothers made Bathtub Gin in NYC. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[@andrewholden1501]

My dad told the story of a town that ended its prohibition laws when he was a child. He said, "the Bible-beaters and the bootleggers fought side by side to keep the town dry!"

[@ItsAVolcano]

In legal weed places, like here in California, you don't even have to switch drugs to up the high. Like beer to hard liquor, heavy weed users around here typically switch to concentrates, tinctures and various other high tech ways of ingesting ludicrous amounts of THC when just smoking doesn't cut it anymore. Interestingly, if you take a ton of weed at once it actually provides a psychedelic high.

[@79mib]

Excellent points throughout, Dave!

[@lmtellsho6283]

While Prohibition did not work, the reason it was tried had to do with men drinking their paycheck and leaving women and children without a way to survive. Life was so hard physically and pay so low, many men did not survive long. The average lifespan for a man in 1900 was 47years. Social welfare programs were non existent with aid being the work of churches. Church women took to the streets. The number of children who became orphans at early ages and lived on streets was a scandal.already.

[@hanknichols6865]

I remember we were authorized to have 2 beers (at our own house expense) during lunch in the US Army in the mid 1970s.

[@charlieeckert4321]

One problem with distilling alcohol was that the first portion of the distilling process is toxic. It's referred to as "The Devil's Cut."

[@lawrencetomlinson761]

What Jim Beam calls Devils Cut is the Bourbon left trapped in the wood fiber of the barrel after it's empty. It is extracted in a proprietary process and blended with a 6 year old Bourbon. I can find no mention of a toxic first pour.

[@planreview]

There was a tunnel from my great grandfather’s corner general store, built in 1925, to the basement of the house next door. Being a general store, he could provide plenty of sugar that was needed for the booze operation next door. His 1925 building still stands with his name and year in the stone facade. It’s apartments now. I’ve always wanted to get in there and see if I could locate the entry point for the tunnel. The house next door is gone.

[@butter1339]

My ancestor was a legendary lawman by the name of bill tilghman was a killed by a corrupt prohibition officer, he was 70 when he passed.

[@jhrapsky2255]

New York and New Jersey in the US just made recreational use of weed legal for exactly the reasons you discussed.

[@TheBIGLebowski-jhp9]

Hell yes, keep doing Oversimplified. They do great things for reaction channels aswell

[@MuriKakari]

So, a classmate of mine once did a whole project on the connection between Scottish and Appalachian moonshining. You didn't have prohibition, but there was a whiskey tax.

[@LarryHatch]

I live in a town named for a famous Prohibitionist Senator. Today the town has over 2200 different places to buy alcohol. Some honor!

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

Hey men, I'm not sure if you're wary about reacting to videos that are long but I wouldn't be per-se. It doesn't bother me at all, and I can't imagine I'm the only one. I think it's totally fine, in fact I like the longer videos more sometimes!

[@snuggies8037]

During quarantine, where my dad lives in Indiana, the citizens protested to have alcohol be a necessity lol

[@LulyRockerBabe65]

The end of prohibition became the birth of the famous Budweiser Clydesdale.

[@Jmzeus1820]

My town just lifted its prohibition on the sale of alcohol in its city limits only 14 years ago. It was normal to me growing up for my dad or grandpa to be gone at least half an hour on a beer run

[@mikebobson2768]

My great grandfather was a New York City fire fighter and they use to transport alcohol in the fire trucks for the mob in NY during prohibition.

[@ClayLoomis1958]

42:03 I love the picture of the women with that sign that says Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours. And I don't believe any of those women could even hope for a kiss unless a man was just falling down drunk.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

I used to have sips of my dad's beer when I was a kid on weekend.

[@josephbridges7470]

Living in Cincy across the river from KY, I have amazing access to the best bourbons in the US. There are tons of people here in the US who can barely find Buffalo Trace let alone Eagle Rare and that Weller is very hard to find outside the Midwest. You should have an Office Blokes Travel channel and the KY Bourbon trail should be #1 on that list.

[@PuckDaily]

Ya my dad drinks a lot which makes sense cause my grandfather came to USA from London at 18.

[@CrazyNikel]

Daz is quickly becoming my favorite. :)

[@jordanlaramore5430]

My great great grandfather made moonshine during prohibition and a couple other family members were bootleggers

[@btfrehley7954]

Yes! Love oversimplified and the office blokes reaction. I think Dave is right about legalization I don't know what the deal is in UK if there is public support for that

[@jeffburdick869]

34:50 come to Chicago! I'll treat you blokes to the Untouchables Tour, which is a tour of the Chicago mafia during the Al Capone era, as well as treat you to deep dish at Lou Malnati's!

[@anamericanpatriot1026]

23:55 The blindess was caused by moonshine that had been run through a lead car radiators. As the alcohol vapor cooled in the radiator 'worm', the lead would leech into the alcohol and contaminate it.

[@AmyEugene]

Ah Germany! I went to an Ikea when I lived there and I guess it was some sort of anniversary for the company that day and they were handing out free glasses of champagne at the door. No ID check. You can also buy a beer with your sandwich at Subway restaurants there which I thought was funny. I was a little surprised when an older gentleman I met insisted that a hot toddy was the best thing for the flu. I haven't tried that piece of advice. Their attitude toward alcohol is more relaxed and it seems like problems like binge-drinking are lower than in the U.S., but the penalties for drunk driving are a lot more severe -- it's much easier to lose your license permanently -- so people take drinking and driving very seriously.

[@dominikmanthei4546]

No one is gonna die from one glass of champagne

[@AmyEugene]

@@dominikmanthei4546 In the U.S. the concern is more about legal liability the company could face. Providing alcohol to a minor or not following state regulations for checking ID would get the company into trouble. If a customer found a way to have more than one glass and then had some sort of mishap, that could result in more legal trouble. I'm not criticizing Ikea for handing out champagne, just pointing out that it's not something you would see in the U.S.

[@TheJames2488]

Prohibition also helped create NASCAR. The bootleggers in the Southern US (mainly Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia) souped up their cars to outrun the cops and ended up racing each other and then created an organization to sanction the events and NASCAR was born

[@kylejohnston2120]

I’m from Oklahoma and you couldn’t buy liquor by the drink until the 80s. If you wanted to drink in a bar or club you had to bring your own bottle and pay the bartender to pour it for you. Now we have legal weed and all other drug possessions are misdemeanors. We’ve come a long way.

[@stephanievila3483]

There are counties in the state of GA to this day where Sunday is either a dry day or they begin sales at noon, after church. Where I used to live it was dry Sunday which was a culture shock since I had just moved from Miami FL where there’s nothing dry about that city. Weed being a gateway drug all depends on the person. Im my opinion, I believe that if you have an addictive personality you will tend to go towards harder stuff but that’s in everything. Even legal drugs, like prescribed medicines, if you have an addictive personality then you’ll be abusing it. I’ve seen many people entering the ED pretending to be in dire pain to get that pain injection and then that prescription.

[@deedeee6271]

I actually grew up in a city which was a "dry city" until about 10 years ago.

[@lazaruschernik18]

The actual women's protest slogan was "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine!"

[@acebongboy]

My Irish nan used to rub whiskey on my gums when I was teething.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Still to this day, in the City of Coral Gables, FL, you can't buy alcohol until 12:01pm on Sundays.

[@triciamcmillan1282]

Watched y’all watch a few these it’s awesome that American history is so unknown and fascinating that y’all just sit quietly and watch

[@melissamason7618]

Hey yeah! Gaz. My mom use to give me a little brandy in tea for monthly menstrual cramps. The brandy relaxes the contraction of the uterus lessing the pain during mentsruation. This is an old remedy. The funny thing is I became an adult I never drank alcohol. I can't tell you the last time I had a wine cooler or a beer. It's just not my stick. I guess when you see enough drunk uncle's you just go nope I don't want to end up like that.

[@tomlornawestlake2393]

The county in Tennessee that Jack Daniels whiskey is produced in is dry. That means when you tour the distillery, you can't sample the product.

[@willjohnson8446]

In many ways the drinking was worse. Many beer drinkers found they could only buy gin or whisky. Folks switched to far harder liquor than they drank before prohibition. My grandfather worked as a pharmacy delivery boy, while in college during prohibition. He said he would frequently deliver cases of prescription champagne to homes that had parties in full swing.

[@donovanparker7476]

Surprised to see Buffalo Trace on the table. Shoutout to whoever picked it as it is an outstanding American bourbon.

[@nadimlawandos6063]

The only thing Weed leads to is the Fridge

[@scott3062]

AAAAHHHHHH!!!! Im so happy you're reacting to more oversimplified!!!!!! Do them All!!!!!!

[@SuperGankBros]

My hometown is still a dry town. You have to drive 15 minutes to the next town over in order to buy any alcohol.

[@ryanwalters8702]

STELLA!!!!!! A little Streetcar Named Desire reference. Also, I love Buffalo Trace bourbon. Well done.

[@EyezofTexas12]

Your feelings about drinking and how crazy this prohibition was and being a gateway to criminality is the exact feeling millions of marijuana users have today. I can smoke all day and drive, but I can’t drive after a couple of drinks.

[@vee8342]

In my state (Georgia), Alcohol can't be sold before 8am and after 11:45pm Monday-Saturday. Also not before 12:30pm on Sundays and in some counties not at all on Sunday.

[@shellysedai1930]

Ok .... so I have lived most of my life in Oklahoma. As a holdover from prohibition, bars could only serve BEER by the bottle or on tap. This is called “liquor by the drink” for the sale of hard liquor/spirits. Sprits/liquor could not be served /sold by the bar-patrons in bars could only be served it if it was BYoB (Bring Your own Bottle) and the bar would provide a glass for their own bottle of booze. The bar charged a cover for the use of the glass. In the late 1990s, the state passed a law that counties could pass their own law in which liquor by the drink was legal. Even now, Oklahoma has wet and dry counties. Oklahoma is in the heart of the Bible Belt after all.