Animals & Nature0 min ago
Mixing your drinks....
Is there any evidence for truth in the old wives tale that mixing your drinks makes you more drunk?
What about the idea that light coloured spirits give you less of a hangover? (I, for one, have anecdotal evidence to disprove that one!)
Any more old wives tales (true or false) about alcohol anyone?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I always find I get drunk quicker if I don't stick to the same drink. Tequila in between pints of cider can certainly be very interesting.
I don't think there is any truth that you get less of a hangover with lighter spirits - me and my boyfriend drank LOTS of vodka on Friday night and both had HORRIBLE hangovers. Maybe if we hadn't drank so much...
Do you think it could be that when you're drunk you get more experimental with drinks, so it's not that you're drunk/hungover from mixing drinks, but that being drunk has made you mix drinks?! (Like my friend's demand on Saturday night of "I don't care what it tastes like, I want a green drink!")
Going by the grape/grain logic it would be fine to mix beer, whiskey and vodka then? Ouch!
P.S. The best hangover prevention/cure I've tried is a can of Slim-fast before bed and another one when you wake up.
it's true that lighter drinks give you less of a hangover... unless you completely go wild, then you'll get a hangover no matter what! i worked in the buying dept of a large alchoholic supplier and learnt that there is something in darker drinks that give you the hangover (can't recall the chemical details!). so, the darker the drink the worse the hangover - newcy brown mmmmmmm is that why it's called gut rot :o)
take care
After that, I was quite "happy" but certainly still some way from being drunk. Then we went out to meet some more frinds and I switched to lager, of which I drank quite a lot. Big mistake. I'm not sure whether it made me any more drunk, but it certainly made me more ill.
The two shots of Aftershock at the end of the evening didn't help either (and also saw me break my golden rule - never drink anything blue). To put it in terms of a "smiley"...X-p