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Beer costs too much here, especially the gluten free beer which sucks, cheapest I can get it is a little over a euro a can (330ml) and if you want fancy beer its 3-6 euros a can or bottle. Oh well, at least we can go to Tallinn.
Are you coeliac? Oh man, that must suck. All the nice bread we have and everything...
But anyways, I don't know why people always whine about the prices. Buy a €8 bottle of wine and a six-pack from LIDL for €6, it's €14 total. The price of prime beef. Of course, if you drink every day it might get expensive.
Are you coeliac? Oh man, that must suck. All the nice bread we have and everything...
But anyways, I don't know why people always whine about the prices. Buy a €8 bottle of wine and a six-pack from LIDL for €6, it's €14 total. The price of prime beef. Of course, if you drink every day it might get expensive.
Yeah it sucks, no nice bread for me
I buy the boxes of wine, that way I don't feel obligated to drink it all in one night so it doesn't go bad
Beer prices are outrageously exorbitant in Ontario.
Here in Quebec it's fairly easy find beer for about a dollar a bottle even with the tax included. Mainstream less expensive beers like Labatt Blue or Coors Light are around a dollar a bottle plus deposit (10 cents a bottle but of course you get it back).
A nicer beer like Stella Artois is around 30 dollars with all taxes included at my local supermarket. That's about 1.25 a bottle. I think my local Costco might even sell it for slightly cheaper than that.
Decent beer is maybe $1.20 / bottle here. Of course you can get beer for nearly half the price, but it's garbage [for example Coors Light in a 30 pack].
When I was in my last year of high school it used to be the thing to go to the pub on Friday lunchtimes. We didn't have enough time for more than about two pints, but at that age even that would be enough to be fairly tipsy for the rest of the afternoon. It would have been obvious from our school uniforms that at least some of us were under 18, but I don't remember it ever being a problem getting served. The teachers surely must have known what was going on, but none of them ever said anything about it.
When I was in my last year of high school, we couldn't do that. We would drink in public parks at night or in people's homes while their parents were out for the evening (or didn't care). Drinking tended to be rather binge-style.
I think in my last year of high school it was a bit more common for people to be high than tipsy, though neither was common.
The young generation is drinking little. In small towns drink more than in large cities. In general, I think that Russia is quite drinking country. Knowledgeable people say that in this we are like the Irish.
Is less drinking by the younger generation a new trend? The American perception of Russia is that most Russian people tend to drink a lot, especially a lot of vodka. Is this perception correct, or is it at least changing with the younger generation?
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