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Chasing the Bottle
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Just the smell of alcohol gives me a headache, so I can understand.
Only through historical social norms it has achieved its acceptability. Were it to be "discovered" today, it'd be banned in a matter of minutes.
Ease of production is at least as important I think. You can't really ban access to starch and sugar, and as long as you can get those you can make alcohol.
If it was discovered today, nobody would drink shit that tastes like soap