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Originally Posted by Taualumna
The beer may be down, but there still might be alcohol in the picture. In fact, it might not even be in your place setting.
Maybe I was brought up with a different outlook on alcohol. Alcohol was and still is considered a "grown up" drink in my family, but it was never condemned or considered a bad thing. I watched my parents drink wine at dinner and I was given a wine glass with grape juice or apple juice so I could be "just like the grown ups." When I turned 19 (the legal drinking age here), the juice was replaced with the real thing. My official 19th birthday was wine and dinner with my family. I don't understand why other people weren't brought up the same way. Maybe if people thought about things this way, we'd have fewer problems.
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You keep forgetting you're from Canada. The attitude toward alcohol there is much different (IMO much healthier) than the US (most likely the French influence, whether you live in Quebec or not). At least that's the impression I've always gotten.
Stupid Puritans.