Do you guys usually have Absinthe ready to go in that thing at your bar? Cause that looks awesome.

Why would club soda be different from water, in terms of hangover? It's just water with carbonation. I would get a vodka and club soda before I'd get a vodka and water, b/c it's a better drink imo. That said, a vodka + water wouldn't be lolworthy, no.

Dissolved carbon dioxide in a drink speeds up the rate at which the alcohol is absorbed in the stomach. But if it's true that people drinking vodka and water and lime get less hungover than people drinking vodka and soda, it's probably because vodka and soda is a better drink so people will drink more of it. So it might be true but misleading in the cause and effect, like saying that warm flat beer gives me less bad hangovers than cold beer.

mj,


how are you feeling after day 2 of the Great Old-fashioned Experiment?

Quite good, thank you. Only had a few last night, but hangovers are so unpredictable for me. Although whiskey really seems to be much more forgiving to me than beer...it seems like I can drink half a fifth of scotch and just feel a bit groggy the next day, but I can feel like death just from drinking a six pack. And wine just crushes me.

Guess I should stick to Old Fashioneds then!

I don't know many people that can polish off a tenth of liquor and be fine but get wrecked by a six pack. You must metabolize alcohol is some strange way. That's the only explanation.

If replacement level were so low though, you'd think they would take more fliers on new ppl, giving them an interview or smth. I've always gotten brushed off going in to hand off my resume cause of no experience. I might have no experience, but I also wouldn't steal, show up drunk, call in sick, etc.

No place is going to hire a bartender with no experience. They pay too much and are too coveted. Even if you have experience, you generally need to know people on staff ime. Unless you're a hot girl.

Vodka water is less hangover inducing than vodka tonic because of the sugar content in tonic probably. But club soda should be a non-issue

So I just have to wait until one of my friends owns a bar and then get in that way?

That would help. But srsly, waiting tables at a restaurant, proving to the manager you can do that well, then asking to train the bar is the easiest way to get into it. Or apply to barback at a busy bar, do a good job, and let them know you're available to sub.

EDIT: I'm an idiot!

Claire,

Have you ever been raped on the job?

This. My first job at the swanky restaurant bar I got by volunteering my services as a barback for free for a week to get experience. After two days they hired me.

And another thing, bar courses are a complete waste of money. If someone applies for a job and says they've done a bar course it really doesn't mean anything.

I believe "that thing" simply contains chilled water.

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