For The Love Of Port

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... n-the-u-s/

Are you surprised?

Hahahahaha... "binge" drinking is defined as more than 4 (for women) or 5 (for me) drinks in the last month.

I barely drink, and even I'd qualify for that without counting Port tastings. That's just completely out of touch with reality.

But which state consumes the most Port ???

Glenn E. wrote:Hahahahaha... "binge" drinking is defined as more than 4 (for women) or 5 (for me) drinks in the last month.
I barely drink, and even I'd qualify for that without counting Port tastings. That's just completely out of touch with reality.

I looked in the text and couldn't find an explanation for that, but given all the other data, e.g. N.Dakotans consumes 1 pint per day of beer which would make their binge drinking 100%, I would say that is 4-5 drinks in one day, having happened in the last month. 20% of the people in the state binged at least once in the last month. If you asked if someone had ever had 4 or 5 drinks in one outing, the numbers would be much higher--"Sure, I did that back in college all the time."

From a different story about the same type of statistics, http://247wallst.com/special-report/201 ... st-beer-3/, a definition from the CDC:

... binge drinking — defined by the CDC for women as consuming four or more drinks, and five or more drinks in the case of men, during a single sitting.

Seems like an odd state (North Dakota) to consume the most beer. Especially given how small the population there is compared to other states. I mean it's ranked the 48th least populated state. The City of Los Angeles alone has around 5 times as many people. What gives?

Andy Velebil wrote:Seems like an odd state (North Dakota) to consume the most beer. Especially given how small the population there is compared to other states. I mean it's ranked the 48th least populated state. The City of Los Angeles alone has around 5 times as many people. What gives?

I think the rankings were all per capita, so population doesn't come into play.

Besides, what ELSE are you going to do in North Dakota???

Eric Menchen wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Hahahahaha... "binge" drinking is defined as more than 4 (for women) or 5 (for me) drinks in the last month.
I barely drink, and even I'd qualify for that without counting Port tastings. That's just completely out of touch with reality.

I looked in the text and couldn't find an explanation for that, but given all the other data, e.g. N.Dakotans consumes 1 pint per day of beer which would make their binge drinking 100%, I would say that is 4-5 drinks in one day, having happened in the last month. 20% of the people in the state binged at least once in the last month. If you asked if someone had ever had 4 or 5 drinks in one outing, the numbers would be much higher--"Sure, I did that back in college all the time."

From a different story about the same type of statistics, http://247wallst.com/special-report/201 ... st-beer-3/, a definition from the CDC:

... binge drinking — defined by the CDC for women as consuming four or more drinks, and five or more drinks in the case of men, during a single sitting.

Yeah that has to be what they meant. Sure was funny to see the charts labeled incorrectly, though.

Glenn E. wrote:Besides, what ELSE are you going to do in North Dakota???

Drill for oil, make a bunch of money, spend it on beer.

True. Sorry my bad lol


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I'm a bit surprised that California doesn't drink more beer.

If North Dakota is relatively under-populated and there is a lot of mining there, that tends to skew the demographic towards male blue collar workers so it makes sense that the per capita consumption is higher. We see the same thing with the Northern Territory over here.

Paul Fountain wrote:I'm a bit surprised that California doesn't drink more beer.

If North Dakota is relatively under-populated and there is a lot of mining there, that tends to skew the demographic towards male blue collar workers so it makes sense that the per capita consumption is higher. We see the same thing with the Northern Territory over here.

That's why I was surprised. Cali folk make and drink a lot of beer. There's a rather large home brewing fad that's been going on here for a bit. Those ruff necks really do drink


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Go to a NFL football game in CA, say the SF 49'ers ... the fans are drinking wine in the stands. What's up with that?

Roy Hersh wrote:Go to a NFL football game in CA, say the SF 49'ers ... the fans are drinking wine in the stands. What's up with that?

We are sophisticated hahahha