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fudge wrote:
> John, dare I ask how you know this?
>
> I know some winos. When the wine budget runs a little low, these connoiseurs
> will purchase Chinese cooking wine. The are no provincial or federal taxes
> on cooking wine. It is 20% alc/vol but the hangover with salt is horrible.
>


In Denmark the drunks buy household spirits, which they dilute into an
empty beer bottle with water from a fountain.

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