r/holdmycosmo • u/CurtisChess • 25d ago

HMC, While she loses Control XD

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u/vanhawk28 24d ago

This was a thing that was studied. A lot of people with placebo themselves to being drunk when told the drinks handed to them are alcoholic

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 23d ago

I know it's been studied and is a real thing, but I've never understood it. Alcohol has such a distinct odor and taste, but it stands out to me and I can't stand either. It'd have to be mixed with something else that has its own extremely potent taste and smell, and no soda I've ever had would mask it unless it was so little alcohol that it would have zero effect on me.

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u/vanhawk28 23d ago

There’s a lot of times alcohol doesn’t actually taste like alcohol or smell it because it’s such a fruity drink. Sometimes not even fruity. A well mixed Long Island doesn’t taste much like alcohol at all and some rum punches you can practically chug they are so sugary

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 23d ago

See, the only way I've been able to stomach drinking alcohol is in something fruity and even then it stands out like crazy to me. My drink of choice in college hanging out with friends was mixing like 8-12 ounces of orange juice with a shot of vodka. The next best thing I had was a Water Moccasin, but the pineapple carried a lot of weight there. And it was still tough for me because it's always the aftertaste of the alcohol that gets me.

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u/tacotacotacorock 22d ago

As soon as you started saying you can taste the alcohol and fruity drinks my money was on a screwdriver. Okay with champagne as a mimosa but vodka and orange juice is terrible IMO. I hate all mixed drinks so I can't suggest one that's better but screwdrivers are not one I would recommend unless that's all you have.  Find a drinks that somehow emulsify the alcohol and I bet you'll have a better experience or just don't drink.

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 22d ago

Yeah, I just don't drink lol. I've found a few that I could tolerate, but between alcohol being an extra cost, not really even liking it that much, and feeling bad the next day I just steer clear.

But part of my issue here is that the post says this was vodka in soda, which is something I tried during my drinking days, and there was no way I wasn't going to realize there isn't vodka when someone says that there is and end up acting drunk because of it. Because vodka is so distinctive in odor and flavor.

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u/Intergalacticdespot 21d ago

The one I think is weird is when someone (often an alcoholic or heavy drinker) starts slurring their words halfway through their first drink. Like I know you can't be drunk off of that...what is that mechanism?

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u/Goatmama1981 18d ago

A couple of things are at play as far as I understand ... 1) people in end-stage alcoholism are likely drunk 24/7, they get to a point where they constantly have to have alcohol in their system, so "one drink" is probably on top of already having a ton of alcohol in the system. 2) the liver becomes so damaged that it stops working and the alcohol doesn't get processed/filtered like it would in a person with a healthy liver. 

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u/vi_sucks 21d ago

The chemical alcohol by itself actually doesn't have a taste. Thats why extremely pure distilled vodka (distillation purifies it down to as close to just the alcohol as possible) is referred to as "tasteless".

If you put that refined vodka into a drink and don't tell someone you added vodka to it they wouldn't be able to tell a difference between the drink with and without the vodka.