← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Jack Cassidy
Thread ID: 17310 | Posts: 18 | Started: 2005-03-14
2005-03-14 21:22 | User Profile
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[color=black][font=Arial]Malt Liquor Drink of Homeless and Unemployed -Study[/font][/color]
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[color=black][font=Arial]And malt liquor is heavily marketed to black and Hispanic youth, the team at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in [/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Arial]Their study of 329 drinkers in [/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Arial]Ricky Bluthenthal, who led the study, said malt liquors were both higher in alcohol than other beers and tended to be sold in larger containers.
[color=black][font=Arial]"We found that the combination of these differences resulted in the average malt liquor drinker in our study consuming 80 percent more alcohol per drink than the average regular beer drinker," he said in a statement.
[color=black][font=Arial]And, Bluthenthal said, the more alcohol consumed, the worse the consequences for both the drinker and his or her community.
[color=black][font=Arial]Writing in the March issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Bluthenthal's team said they found malt liquor drinkers were more likely to be homeless, unemployed, receive public assistance, and tended to drink more alcohol than other drinkers.
[color=black][font=Arial]Rhonda Jones-Webb, an expert in alcohol consumption and behavior at the [/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Arial]The products are largely targeted to black and Hispanic youths and young adults, she said.
[color=black][font=Arial]"Rap artists have been popular images in malt liquor advertising and 'gangsta' rap performers portray malt liquor as a sign of masculinity," she said.
[color=black][font=Arial]"Advertising influences brand choice, and what young people drink in early years influences what they drink as adults," she added in a telephone interview.
[color=black][font=Arial]Malt liquors are often sold in 40-ounce (1 liter) bottles, she added. "Rap lyrics and movie scripts encourage 'chugging' the bottles before they get warm," she said.
[color=black][font=Arial]"The combined effects of higher alcohol content, larger serving size, and faster consumption can result in higher blood alcohol levels, an increased risk of aggressive behavior, and other alcohol-related problems."
[color=black][font=Arial]Jones-Webb said larger studies should be done on the type of alcohol that people drink, advertising of the different types and their influence on behavior and crime.
2005-03-14 21:27 | User Profile
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[color=black][font=Arial]Malt liquor, a type of beer that is higher in alcohol than other brews, is largely a drink of the homeless and unemployed, and is likely to be abused, [/font][/color]<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
2005-03-14 22:21 | User Profile
Malt liquor....cheap adjunct lager with extra alcohol and tastes like corn syrup. Glad I stick to crafted ales by smaller breweries. :cheers:
I wonder if any studies have been done on the demographics that drink gin and juice.
2005-03-14 23:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Malt liquors are often sold in 40-ounce (1 liter) bottles, [Rhonda Jones-Webb, an expert in alcohol consumption and behavior at the University of Minnesota who reviewed the study] added.[/QUOTE] Umm, a liter is 33.8 ounces. So we have a stupid "expert in alcohol consumption", a stupid reporter, and (presumably) a stupid editor.
2005-03-15 01:32 | User Profile
[img]http://www.zianet.com/spencer/colt451102.gif[/img]three classics [img]http://www.neon-nites.com/ProductImages/metalpubsigns/mickeysmaltliquor1.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.watsoncrombie.com/schlitz_blue_bull.jpg[/img]
2005-03-15 02:24 | User Profile
I've said it before and it bears repeating: pound for pound, Negroes are your best entertainment value.
Just build a fence around 'em is all I ask.
2005-03-15 02:47 | User Profile
Isn't "malt liquor" essentially an arbitrary classification, thought-up for taxation purposes?
2005-03-15 03:42 | User Profile
I always thought malt liquor was cheap beer that they added alcohol to, a kind of mass produced boiler maker.
2005-03-15 04:15 | User Profile
A 40-ouncer in a brown bag, that's all a Negro needs to start a party going.
2005-03-15 04:20 | User Profile
By the way, in the Soviet Union the drink of choice for lower classes was "port wine", which in practice was the cheapest wine fortified with alcohol and with sugar added. Drinks like these, due to their quick consumption (chugging) made possible by alcohol not being overpowering like in vodka, high sugar level and low quality caused quite a funny intoxication sensation and lots of sudden aggressive behavior.
2005-03-15 04:44 | User Profile
I like a glass of madeira port now and it's [I]not [/I] niggerized wine - it's been produced for centuries - unless "port wine" is a specific Russian variation of port.
2005-03-15 04:55 | User Profile
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with fortified wine, just like there is nothing intrincically wrong with beer. However, some swill based on the idea...
Personally, I can't stand port. But I liked herb-based stuff, the class of fortified wines known as "amaro" in Italy. Can't find it here, and Jaegermeister looks like a parody of it.
2005-03-15 06:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy][color=black][font=Arial]Malt liquors are often sold in 40-ounce (1 liter) bottles, she added. "Rap lyrics and movie scripts encourage 'chugging' the bottles before they get warm," she said.
Maybe "pouring some out for the dead homies" before chugging on the malt isn't such a bad idea.
2005-03-15 10:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Centinel]Malt liquor....cheap adjunct lager with extra alcohol and tastes like corn syrup. Glad I stick to crafted ales by smaller breweries. :cheers:
I wonder if any studies have been done on the demographics that drink gin and juice.[/QUOTE]
True, but it makes a pretty good enema.
2005-03-15 13:39 | User Profile
Well, I hope to be able to move up to malt liquor some day, but until then...[url]http://www.bumwine.com/[/url]
Cisco
18% alc. by vol.
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"Cisco is bottled by the nation's second largest wine company, Canandaigua Wine Co., in Canandaigua, NY and Naples, NY - the same company as Wild Irish Rose.
Known as "liquid crack," for its reputation for wreaking more mental havoc than the cheapest tequila. Something in this syrupy hooch seems to have a synapse-blasting effect not unlike low-grade cocaine. The label insists that the ingredients are merely "citrus wine & grape wine with artificial flavor & artificial color," but anyone who has tried it knows better. Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too. Everyone who drinks this feels great at first, and claims, "It's not bad at all, I like it." But, you really do not want to mess around with this one, because they all sing a different tune a few minutes later. And by tune, I mean the psychotic ramblings of a raging naked bum.
In 1991, Cisco's tendency to cause a temporary form of inebriated insanity led the Federal Trade Commission to require its bottlers to print a warning on the label (above right). The FTC also forced them to drop their marketing slogan, "Takes You by Surprise," even though it was entirely accurate. Since those days, Cisco is harder to find outside the slums, although the FTC's demonizing of the drink only bolstered its reputation for getting people trashed. Anyone who overlooks the warning and confuses this with a casual wine cooler is going to get more than they bargained for. Cisco will make a new man out of you. And he wants some too.
Our research shows that Cisco is actually the second best tasting of the five great bum wines, especially if you're having one of those hankerings for cheap Vodka, Jello and Robitussin. We must also note that Cisco is the best of all 5 bum wines at putting the darkest and puffiest bags under your eyes. The nuclear-tinted color of "Cisco RED" is reminiscent of diesel fuel. Most Cisco flavors are named by the fruit flavor that they are trying to emulate, but the one picture is simply called "RED." This chemical disaster will get your head spinning in no time. A test subject reports, "Strawberry Cisco has a bouquet similar to that of Frankenberry cereal fermented in wine cooler with added sprinkle of brandy for presentation." The sticky, sickingly sweet taste with a hint of antifreeze really comes through in the repellant taste of Cisco. Avaliable in various flavors, 375 mL and 750mL sizes. Down a whole 750 mL and you had better be ready to clear your calendar as you suffer through Cisco's legendary 2 day hangover.
2005-03-15 13:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Walter Yannis]True, but it makes a pretty good enema.[/QUOTE]
I recommend Berocca and warm water. Always gets me out of bed in the morning.
2005-03-16 22:49 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]By the way, in the Soviet Union the drink of choice for lower classes was "port wine", which in practice was the cheapest wine fortified with alcohol and with sugar added. Drinks like these, due to their quick consumption (chugging) made possible by alcohol not being overpowering like in vodka, high sugar level and low quality caused quite a funny intoxication sensation and lots of sudden aggressive behavior.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the Soviet equivalent of Mad Dog 20/20, Night Train and Thunderbird.
2005-03-17 19:43 | User Profile
Mickeys are actually a (barely) tolerable way for a poor college kid to get a little buzz, but the rest of that stuff is unfit for human consumption.