So, Wait, It's Not A Girly Drink?

Cocktails: "Lecker." Included notes (left to right): Tequila Sunrise, Erdnüsse, sind hier Standard (in the bowl), Mai Tai, and a receipt for €4,50 und €4,75. (Mallorca, exs100, cocktails, canpicafort, Spain, spanien) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Happy Hour blog over at GIZMODO has an interesting article, a rather well-developed approach that analyzes a few of those alcohol-related rumors. The one that interested me most pertained to mixed drinks, you know the ones that don't make you choke, gag, or barf. Coincidentally they're also the drinks that put on the receiving end of the jests from friends, joking that you can't handle the "rougher" stuff, or making you out to be the "bitch" or "pussy." Not all is as it seems.


This article points out that interestingly enough, a mixed drink will in fact get you drunker than shots or straight drinks alone. There is some scientific backing to this, and the general version is thus: because of it's larger mass and volume, the mixed drink spends more time in your digestive system, which is where it gets absorbed. So while a shot of vodka runs almost literally straight through you, the screwdriver I'm sipping across the table is mingling around a little longer and getting absorbed more completely into the bloodstream.

Who's the bitch now, I wonder?


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