A bottle of Madeira is no small thing. It's not an unbelievable tab, but it's a fairly raucous night out, when many people imagine the Founding Fathers as a bunch of stuffy guys in wigs. Which, I mean, they were to some degree, but also partying is a long American tradition. o7

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just look up Madeira, is says it's 18% alcohol, that's still not a spirit, yeah it's not a classic wine. They were grown up men celebrating something, I guess they also ate something, I still don't understand why is it a big deal.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, 3 bottles of wine, 3 or 4 whiskeys and call it the better part of a liter of punch is a fair bit of alcohol. Im pretty sure it would have my "2 beers a week" stomach giving up halfway.

But it's not a blackout drunk amount if spread over an evening and night. Student-me would consider an above average night.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Did some quick calculations and based on those on average one person drank 300-400ml of pure ethanol, if drank at once it would be a deadly amount for 80kg male and even spread over about 16 hours very drunk would be an understatement

If i would ever attempt to drink that much i would make sure that some much less drunk would watch me the whole night until morning to make sure i am fine

Though if the wine bottles were more like 500ml or 375ml the overall amount becomes more reasonable for a party average as i don't think while some could drink that much and be fine, that everyone could drink that much in a night without the 'party' becoming people being blacked out on the floor swimming in their own vomit unless the invitations were sent based on their alcohol tolerance

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

Keeping in mind that these people were what modern people would consider to be alcoholics, this is till a fuckload of alcohol lol