Palcohol approved for sale; state regulation pending?

[walkitout]

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/12/8200211/palcohol-regulatory-approval-powdered-alcohol

It's hard to know what, if anything, is worth saying. This is a Thing.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I know someone who orders Coke in restaurants and surreptitiously pours rum into it. I suppose one could get away with that kind of thing even more easily with a powder.

As a person who has done that with whisky and non-alcoholic lime rickeys

[walkitout]

There's a place in Pepperell called Doctor Davis' (or there used to be anyway) that sold a whole bunch of stuff I couldn't consume and also non-alcoholic (no liquor license) lime rickeys. I did, on at least one occasion, bring some whisky with me to add to the lime rickey, and then proceeded on my way home (bike path, on the bike, natch. After dark. Was a little weird, actually, but fun. Pre-children).

So I gotta ask: does your "someone" do this to save money or to have a drink at unlicensed premises? Or is it just for the thrill of it all?

The palcohol packet does not look a lot more concealable than a small liquids container (I gave up on metal flasks after a while and switched to small Nalgenes, IIRC), however, it would presumably help avoid the oops I spilled and now I smell like an alcoholic problem.

Re: As a person who has done that with whisky and non-alcoholic lime rickeys

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

They're of age and it was a licensed premise the time I saw them, so it was purely to save money. I think it's kind of a stingy thing to do under those circs. I'm also against loading up the cocoa powder on your latte to get a free upgrade to a mocha, adding lemons and sugar to your water to get a free lemonade, and other such restaurant shenanigans by people who could afford either to pay the freight or do without the thing. Not so much that it does a great deal of harm as that it is disrespectful to the people who work there. Way more pardonable in a young person doing it for fun, but I'd expect people to grow out of it.

Re: As a person who has done that with whisky and non-alcoholic lime rickeys

[walkitout]

I'm inclined to agree with all of that except possibly the lemon sugar water instead of buying lemonade. A lot of prepared lemonade is from nasty powdered concentrate that just tastes ... wrong.

Never occurred to me to do the latte/mocha thing. Weird. I'm apparently bad at restaurant shenanigans.

[rolandgo.livejournal.com]

Ketchup and hot water.
Seen it done...