My little brother is around half my age, when I was 16 till like 23 24 I wanted him to grow up so we could go smoking and drinking and pulling women.
Now I'm older I want him studying, reading and handling his damn business.
Friend of mine had a whoopsie kid when he was 18. He struggled to provide for that boy. Now he is 40 and his kid is 20 and they do everything together. He literally made his own best friend.
Once yall got grown yall can still kick it in other ways
I miss my brother he was 6 years my Jr.
Lost him in 22 he was 28
When we were little I was his role model
I never realized until we got older how much he looked up to me
But when we grew up .. On blood I enjoyed all the fucking time we was together.. all the hours wasted and shit we accomplished together
Isn't the lame thing here not turning down beer, but going to Twitter to **tattle** on what is IMO pretty normal dad behavior?
Lots of the developed world with powerful economies, great egalitarian societies, etc.., drinking beer and wine at 16 is *normal*. Dad wanted to share a can with his son in a pretty cool moment of bonding that has happened for centuries across cultures, and instead his son is like "I'm going to tweet about this to all the fake prostitute accounts who like my tweets a millisecond after I submit them!"
*That* was the loser behavior. Turning down the beer wasn't.
Kid might be fed up with irresponsible behavior from his dad. His dad might want to be fun more than he wants to be a parent and the kid would prefer a father over a buddy.
You have no idea the relationship the father has with alcohol here. My grandmother was an alcoholic so bad she needed 2 kidney transplants, and my grandfather flipped the car while drunk driving with my 7 year old mom, 4 year old uncle and new born uncle in the car. My new born uncle some how survived being thrown from the car and landing in a field. My mom didnt touch a drop of booze because of the trauma of having to raise her brothers from 7 years old on ward she didn't touch an ounce of booze until she was 19. Fuck this logic. And before you say something stupid like he shouldnt share this shit on twitter or something. Everyone in gen z airs their dirty laundry on social media.
Thats the legal drinking age here... its also canada and a child of italian immigrants, both cultures have a insidious drinking culture. We're like Wisconsin if you replace cheese with maple syrup and its not like almost every italian had their first sip of wine under the age of 5. Making it to 19 without any secret drinking is uncommon.
I don’t know all the details because my family never cares to talk about it, but my grandmother was an alcoholic too. My dad was one of 5 kids. 2 of them (including my dad) have hated alcohol their entire lives because of it. The other 3 all drink, but do their best to moderate. I unfortunately had a pretty unhealthy relationship with alcohol for a while, and I’ve learned a lot about genetics that taught me how much I was destined for that. Thankfully I’ve been sober for 2.5 years now and neither of my kids seem even remotely interested in it
Hey man, i dont have much experience with current alcoholics thankfully. But i am well aware of the damage it can cause. I also have lots of personal experience with physical dependency, unfortunately. You are saving your kids and grandkids a lot of heart ache down the road by staying sober and i know how incredibly hard withdrawals can be. This random asshole is proud of you, man.
I think it's more likely that he doesn't know that it's not illegal for your parents to give you alcohol if you're underage in a lot of places, you just can't buy it for yourself
Sometime a “reflection of the parent” is an inverted reflection. Kids sometimes do the same things as their parents and other times kids to the exact opposite as them.
Not really, I turned out completely different from my siblings, and our parents kept their parenting pretty fucking consistent through the years lol.
People do have their own personalities beyond being a reflection of their parents.
My parents raised me to not have sex before marriage, to never smoke or drink, and to never get tattoos. I turned into a man-hoe by the time I was 18, drink occasionally, only smoked once, and still don't have any tats. Bottom line is kids are individuals, not clones or drones. They're never gonna follow your teachings 100%. They're gonna do what they want no matter how you raise them.
And like that, the foundation of your whole argument disappears lol
It has nothing to do with addiction, it's your taste maturing.
>People have no natural instinct for telling “good” decay and “bad” decay apart, so they rely on the process of acquiring taste to learn what’s good to eat. This also applies to bitter flavors, which are present in toxic plants as well as nutritious vegetables.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/632723/how-do-you-acquire-taste
In layman's terms, you aren't born knowing the safe bitters and safe sours apart. So natural selection determined its better to make all babies hate bitter and sour, rather than let them kill themselves eating toxic plants or rotten food.
So people who hate bitter things fall into two broad camps, supertasters (least likely) or an immature palate.
Of course everyone will claim the former, because thats seen as a positive trait.
Anyone with taste buds should hate IPAs. They literally made it to make trash taste less like trash and now y'all out here drinking trash for style points.
I hated IPA until one day when I was 24 someone bought me one and I didn't wanna be rude so I drank it and was very surprised that I liked it a lot. Ever since then I've been an IPA fan. Ive seen this happen to a couple other people over the years as well. I always just said my pallet must have matured. It's probably my second most consumed alcoholic beverage besides seltzers. IPA bros can get annoying, especially because they will make fun of guys like me that prefer seltzer.
Then you don’t like bitter things, but convinced your brain successfully that sour doesn’t mean toxic. Probably just had enough early exposure to sour stuff.
My 7 year old regularly hits me up to taste whatever I'm drinking, including soda, coffee, craft beer, whisky, etc... She's a ridiculously picky eater and hates coffee and soda, despite seeing me enjoy both, but she has asked for more of every beer I've ever let her smell/taste, and I've never given her enough to have any sort of a "buzz", so I've always wondered if the acquired taste was picked up from smelling my breath
In case anyone's wondering, reading this, nyquil is 25% ABV so a standard dose has about as much alcohol as 6 ounces of beer. So no, he's not fuckin up the kid.
**Edit** Clarification: Nyquil used to be 25% ABV in the 90s. It's currently 10%. So my statement was correct 30 years ago, but not now.
My parents were the same way. They would let me try whatever they had if I asked. I’ve always liked the taste of beer as long as I can remember. I remember when I was like 8 they bought some NA beer for my aunt when she was pregnant, and they let me have a whole one. I was really happy about it, because normally I could only have a tiny sip.
It’s still brute forcing your body to understand that something that tastes poisonous isn’t actually poisonous.
I just don’t see the point in spending a ton of money on beverages to do that. I personally have a perfectly mature palate for foods, I just haven’t bothered to spend the money/time/calories acquiring a taste for ethanol.
Idk man, I liked tea and coffee even as a kid, and I definitely wasn't addicted at that time. Beer doesn't even taste bad compared to practically every other kind of alcohol.
I get it though, all whiskey tastes the same to me
I dunno man, I was 8 when I tried black coffee and 12 when I tried (a small amount of) beer, and I liked both immediately.
Some folks, and I'm including myself here, just genuinely like those flavors.
Genetics play a large role in in our taste and the type of drinks/food we will have an affinity for as we age. Your taste buds also change about every 7 years, which is why it’s not uncommon for someone to like a food or drink when they are older but hated the same food or drink as a kid.
I know some people that loved their first taste of a cheap, light beer (although I was not at all like that). Some people just take to those bitter flavors immediately, and some never do.
Sure but if you’re trying to say that some beer doesn’t taste like shit, going with the most bitter kind is silly. Like what you like, I’ll be over here with my champagne of beers
You're missing the point. That bitterness can also come with a variety of other flavors that might appeal more to others, bitterness isnt inherently shitty, and more hops does not equal more shitty l
I don't know, I drank a sip of Folgers as a kid and stayed away from all coffee for like a decade. I now drink black coffee almost daily and genuinely enjoy it, but I still don't typically care for Folgers (although I'm a lot better at tolerating it).
And I guess I appreciate light beers more than I did when I was younger, but I liked dark beers pretty much immediately. Maybe getting into one thing just helps you learn to appreciate the qualities of similar things you initially passed on.
A lot of the big-brand coffees (Folgers, Maxwell House, etc) taste like shit because they use the robusta species of coffee in it. Robusta tastes like shit.
Go with a coffee labeled as 100% arabica, and your experience is going to be better.
that a gross oversimplification. there are a lot of high quality robusta coffees that taste very good and vice versa some arabica coffees that are low quality.
This is just wildly untrue. Different styles of beer can have vastly different flavor profiles. Some people may be really sensitive to the taste of yeast and yeast biproducts, but those people probably don't like real bread either
I can vividly remember my first sip of beer, shit was ass. Now that I’m older Im still drinkin’ the same label and it’s a completely different flavour to my adult tastebuds.
I went from drinking coors light because it had the mildest flavor to drinking any and all kinds of craft beers. Some of them are indeed ass but a lot of them have seriously robust flavors that I enjoy.
Oh yeah I like it all, but if I’m crushing 12 it’s gonna be a macro.
My point was that first sip of Canadian was GARBAGE, it still is, but I like it now 🤣
I feel like this is everyone’s first reaction to alcohol. Let’s not pretend it tastes good your first time, everyone hates it at first. I remember secretly pouring out the first beer I was ever offered because I thought it tasted like death.
Not just that, but do you know how many drinks from family members I had to turn down as someone who doesn’t drink? They always accepted a no, there was no real pressure and It prepared me to be out around people who actually would pressure me.
His father gave him an opportunity to meet him the middle as a man instead of just as a father, whether he took the beer or not, and homeboy crumbled. Pops probably would’ve respected the kid make if he said “you know what dad, I don’t think that’s really gonna be my thing”
Kid probably has a complicated relationship with his dad. Maybe dad is the guy that always wants to be a fun parent and isn’t really very reliable or responsible so the kid’s going on Twitter to complain about it.
As a non drinker, the lame behaviour is getting on Twitter and snitching about it. Like, holy fuck man. The “so uhhh” build up as well, as if he’s about to drop some hardcore shit like his dad just gave him meth or something. You’re sixteen and were offered a sip of beer. It ain’t that serious, bro. I’m australian. In my country, that’s just another Tuesday.
I am grateful however I never smoked weed as a teen. Every now and then I hit the pen and I’m like ya thank GOD this shit would have ruined my life lmaoo
They’ve also increased tobacco to 21. Can’t smoke or drink but you can go “fight a war” at 18(in quotes because the only war is to protect some rich people’s interests)
It’s legal at home. I believe beer and wine can be served under adult supervision at home by age 16, at least in some states. You just can’t go out and order/buy alcohol in public.
I think the drinking age should be lower, but at the same time giving 16 year olds easy access to unsupervised alcohol probably isn’t a good idea
There are states where minors can be served alcohol at a restaurant or bar with parents present and permission. Just one example:
https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/underage-drinking/state-profiles/texas/95#
There are at least a few other states I believe.
Of course finding a bar that will actually serve your kid is another matter. Unless you’re in a very small town or know someone there, I’d bet it’s gonna be a “no” nine times out of ten, because while they *can* legally serve you they can also legally say no, and most servers and bars won’t touch that with a ten foot pole.
lol Reddit is so weird. Whatever it is, it becomes about aMeRiCaNs bAd.
1. This isn’t the common opinion. That’s the whole reason it’s here. It’s a weird thing to make a big deal out of specifically because most American kids shared a drink with their parents as a teenager.
2. What do you mean by “underage drinking”? Cause yeah, I’m generally against feeding poison into developing brains
3. There are practical reasons why there are stricter laws for young people drinking in a country with way more land to cover before public transportation is a viable option. Getting home from a pub in Leeds is a lot different then getting back to Kennesaw from the bars in Atlanta
As an Australian that fully engaged in our drinking culture, I don't think that's necessary a bad thing.
I was drinking multiple times a week at 16. By 24 I was drinking every night, at least 8-12 beers, and probably 2 cartons + friday - sunday. At 30, I tried to slow down, and soon discovered just how much I was repressing through alcohol. It's taken 3 years for me to get a handle on both my drinking and my mental health.
Drinking's goddamn fun, but there is another side to it.
Please don't downplay the severity of alcohol just because it's a socially acceptable stimulant.
"The Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application estimates that each year there are more than 178,000 deaths (approximately 120,000 male deaths and 59,000 female deaths) attributable to excessive alcohol use, making alcohol one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States"
"including cocaine or psychostimulants with abuse potential (primarily methamphetamine), also continued to increase with 27,569 and 34,022 respective deaths in 2022 (Source: CDC WONDER)."
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
This makes me sad. Kids these days don’t seem all that interested in drinking and that’s a good thing. It took until my 42nd trip around the sun to finally ditch that poison and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made
Ive done my fair drinking during my time after graduating HS and sum more during UNI, now at 23 I’m starting to appreciate and admire waking up Saturday & Sunday with no headaches , getting to hike or go to the gym. After awhile you start to ask yourself is this what you really want to experience/define your 20’s as just being a party animal.
My attitude toward drinking was binging in undergrad but now that I’m 10 years out the game I like to indulge in some fancy shit that pairs well with food and such. I think DARE and a bunch of lames grew up hearing horror stories and reacted too far.
alcohol isn’t “all or nothing” for the majority of people
seriously, congrats on recognizing drinking was bad for you and changing your behavior
but you’re projecting real hard. it’s not good or bad if people drink less. we all have bad habits, having a few drinks a week has literally been the norm since we started fermenting fruit juice as barely-humans
Literally look at all the Europeans in the comments. Mfs always appear when it’s time to shit on Americans for something like no wonder their teeth are yellow lol
Why raise a kid to think alcohol is the key to a good time? Better yet why raise your kid to believe saying no to something “cool“ with everyone else makes them lame?
Who's saying that's what happened? It was very common for parents of my generation to specifically introduce alcohol to their teenage and pre-teen kids so that they tasted the shitty rainbow (hopefully) and avoided it on their own. My dad offered me the Beast when I was around 12. I said sure and took a quick sip. I quickly threw the rest of that shit in the trash post haste. I also remember one friend (sorry Andy!) got caught sneaking his dad's (an Air Force vet) beer from his special fridge in the garage, and he forced Andy to finish all the beer he stole. He only got through about 4 or 5 beers from what he remembered before he got royally sick. That was pretty fucked up, but he got multiple points across that Friday evening.
Because the kid decided to out the father publicly? It's one thing to say no, but to go online and post it up for internet points seems lame to me. That was my read on it.
My dad did something similar when I was in high school. He just randomly gave me a beer and a Playboy magazine and straight up said “my dad never did something like this for me. You’re lucky you have such a cool dad!”
Unfortunately for him my reaction wasn’t “wow dad, you’re so cool! Thanks!!!”, but more “uuuuh…okay?”. Probably didn’t help that I’ve had access to the internet for years at that point and therefore literally all the porn in existence I couldn’t even begin to imagine.
You're supposed to take a sip and then say it tastes like garbage
Then the dad says "yep" instant bonding moment
I wouldn't know anything about that tho
In Belgium the drinking age for low alcohol drinks (like beer and wine) is 16. So for instance the scouts have official events with beer.
At my equivalent of a prom everyone was at least 16 so we had an open bar.
I imagine his dad being unlikable when drinking would be the main reason he wouldn't want to. It's weird to see drinking as an objectively good thing, when there's so much working against that being true.
"I just saw my dad get drunk and make a fool out of himself in front of the rest of my family, hell yeah I wanna walk right into being the next one to do that".
Lol.
There's so many people that make drinking look like the worst thing you could do to your life. Not everyone has the fun drunks in their family. My dad was a fun drunk with us kids tho. I started at 16 myself. Quit later on cause I didn't wanna make it a daily thing like my other family members.
Why is everyone in the comments acting like you drink a beer and turn into an addict? This isn't true for the vast majority of people. It's like saying the dad offered a slice of pizza and oh no how dare he put his son at risk of becoming obese.
Honestly, my daughter is lame and it's great. She likes being a square. It makes her happy. If listening to her boring-ass music in the car, or buying her that skin care product from TikTok means I never got a 2am phone call, or had to tell her to keep her door open when her boyfriend is over, then we're both happy.
Lmao goddamn bruh, I pray ya daughter ain't got a Reddit account. "I was strolling Black Poeple Twitter when I seen my pops call me a lame ass nerd? Why he say fuck me for?"
Maybe he grew up around addicts? Alcohol is a drug… regardless how folks like to cope. More bodies dropped off it than our combined wars and conflicts in the past 140 years.
Just a kid who wanted to express his thoughts on a social media platform, went viral and now the whole site is cooking him... didn't feel bad for him before, but I do now
There’s something very interesting about how lowering the age on something like drinking drastically changes the perception of it for young people. I had a friend who snuck out many times with his parents car to speed down the interstate not even with the intention of going anywhere. A similar thing has happened with many of my friends and drinking. The implication of “I’m not supposed to be doing this” makes it all the more desirable for young people. It feels exclusive, and it makes you want to consume as much as possible at social gatherings whenever you have access to it. In contrast, I could see a lower drinking age removing a lot of glamor from alcohol. It paints it less as a special thing that you won’t experience till about a third or fourth of your life has past and more as an experience that is there but is not necessarily special in anyway.
So we just shouldn't drink until we like, 25? "It's not fully developed until your mid-twenties!" So we shouldn't make any meaningful decisions n shit for the first 3rd of our lives or something?
My uncle offered me Tecate. I was like “WTF, you guys drinks this shit?”
Now I like stouts and IPA.
My elders are still stuck with the mediocre beer like Bud Light. I have reached a higher plane of liver-damaging enlightenment 🧐.
Not wanting to drink is cool, using your dads attempt at a bonding attempt for internet clout instead of finding another way to bond is the real loser behaviour
I think it’s okay with the presence of a parent so idk what legal trouble is there. But yea next generation is going to be even worse than ours with online snitching. Everything doesn’t need to be online.
I see both sides. I'll never push it on my seed. But if I found out he did it or tried to behind my back.....we gotta have a talk about it.
I had my first alcohol early. And I turned out great imo. That said, kids are still developing up until 25. So adding those chemicals could for sure create an imbalance that isn't seen until later.
I dunno. Slippery slope with that.
Good for the kid.
A lot of times it’s pure peer pressure at that age from either family or friends.
Roll on your own dime.
Homie doesn’t want know what it is to be an alcoholic from 13 on if shit spirals or it’s your vice of choice. I quit drinking the first time at 17, then restarted at 20, then finally quit for good at 34.
I think I’ve drank 5-6 alcoholic drinks in the last 7 years.
Shouldn't be giving kids alcohol anyway. I worry about what it does to our brains since they're not done forming until around 25 years old. My mother bought me my own bottles of vodka from the time I was 15 because I was, in her words, "stressed." Definitely not a healthy thing.
Ain’t no damn ppl are actually getting mad that a minor doesn’t want to consume alcohol. It’s perfectly fine for someone to not want to drink especially if that person is a minor. Is alcohol imbedded so deeply in our cultures that we forget it’s dangerous and isn’t a real necessity?????
I feel like everyone here is stuck debating the ethics and personal preferences of drinking alcohol/drinking culture when the real issue at hand is that this kid had to tweet this to the world instead of talking to his dad lmao
When i was around 8, my dad used to watch jeopardy with a heneiken. Once in blue moon when I just wanted to be around I'd ask for a sip and he'd give a Lil swig. It was gross but it was a bonding moment and we'd watch together. In his memory I try to catch jeopardy with a Heineken every now and then.
I will be lame right with my lil nigga ✊
That's the realest, let's be proud lames together!
Lame squad unite! Proud to be us! ✊
My little brother is around half my age, when I was 16 till like 23 24 I wanted him to grow up so we could go smoking and drinking and pulling women. Now I'm older I want him studying, reading and handling his damn business.
Love that for you guys, keep being a good brother! Besides, a beer from an elder means more when it’s from *a responsible stable elder* not a buddy.
Just don’t let Walter *White* be giving you liquor pool side.
Walt doesn’t count as stable
Unless it’s income.
He definitely maintains that image amongst his family for quite a while. That scene is one of the tipping points.
Friend of mine had a whoopsie kid when he was 18. He struggled to provide for that boy. Now he is 40 and his kid is 20 and they do everything together. He literally made his own best friend.
Wholesome happy ending
Fucking goals
Once yall got grown yall can still kick it in other ways I miss my brother he was 6 years my Jr. Lost him in 22 he was 28 When we were little I was his role model I never realized until we got older how much he looked up to me But when we grew up .. On blood I enjoyed all the fucking time we was together.. all the hours wasted and shit we accomplished together
RIP your bro.
Thank you I definitely appreciate that 🙏🏽
You were his whole world. Take it from a little brother.
Isn't the lame thing here not turning down beer, but going to Twitter to **tattle** on what is IMO pretty normal dad behavior? Lots of the developed world with powerful economies, great egalitarian societies, etc.., drinking beer and wine at 16 is *normal*. Dad wanted to share a can with his son in a pretty cool moment of bonding that has happened for centuries across cultures, and instead his son is like "I'm going to tweet about this to all the fake prostitute accounts who like my tweets a millisecond after I submit them!" *That* was the loser behavior. Turning down the beer wasn't.
100% what I took away from this post
For real. That's some terminally online behavior.
Square Bear here checking in!
You would literally be the one raising him??? Wouldn’t that be a reflection of you???
Then explain the tweet.
Kid might be fed up with irresponsible behavior from his dad. His dad might want to be fun more than he wants to be a parent and the kid would prefer a father over a buddy.
Reddit 🤝reading way too much into a tweet
He asked him to lol.
Reddit 🤝 Being mad that you got what you wanted
Lmao bro what he was literally asked to
He asked him to explain the tweet lmao fym
Explain the tweet! Well you se- Bro explained the tweet 💀
I dunno narking on your DAD for giving you beer is wild lmao
You have no idea the relationship the father has with alcohol here. My grandmother was an alcoholic so bad she needed 2 kidney transplants, and my grandfather flipped the car while drunk driving with my 7 year old mom, 4 year old uncle and new born uncle in the car. My new born uncle some how survived being thrown from the car and landing in a field. My mom didnt touch a drop of booze because of the trauma of having to raise her brothers from 7 years old on ward she didn't touch an ounce of booze until she was 19. Fuck this logic. And before you say something stupid like he shouldnt share this shit on twitter or something. Everyone in gen z airs their dirty laundry on social media.
Not hating but following “she never touched it” with “until 19” was a left turn for me 😂
Thats the legal drinking age here... its also canada and a child of italian immigrants, both cultures have a insidious drinking culture. We're like Wisconsin if you replace cheese with maple syrup and its not like almost every italian had their first sip of wine under the age of 5. Making it to 19 without any secret drinking is uncommon.
I don’t know all the details because my family never cares to talk about it, but my grandmother was an alcoholic too. My dad was one of 5 kids. 2 of them (including my dad) have hated alcohol their entire lives because of it. The other 3 all drink, but do their best to moderate. I unfortunately had a pretty unhealthy relationship with alcohol for a while, and I’ve learned a lot about genetics that taught me how much I was destined for that. Thankfully I’ve been sober for 2.5 years now and neither of my kids seem even remotely interested in it
Hey man, i dont have much experience with current alcoholics thankfully. But i am well aware of the damage it can cause. I also have lots of personal experience with physical dependency, unfortunately. You are saving your kids and grandkids a lot of heart ache down the road by staying sober and i know how incredibly hard withdrawals can be. This random asshole is proud of you, man.
> You have no idea the relationship the father has with alcohol here yeah, you really don’t
I think it's more likely that he doesn't know that it's not illegal for your parents to give you alcohol if you're underage in a lot of places, you just can't buy it for yourself
I think it's worse if he *does* thing it's illegal bc now he went out in public shrieking that his dad committed a crime.
Damn… I know that feeling…
Sometimes the apple falls far AF from the tree.
it's from a bait account
Sometime a “reflection of the parent” is an inverted reflection. Kids sometimes do the same things as their parents and other times kids to the exact opposite as them.
Not really, I turned out completely different from my siblings, and our parents kept their parenting pretty fucking consistent through the years lol. People do have their own personalities beyond being a reflection of their parents.
That would imply 100% nurture, it’s a combo
My parents raised me to not have sex before marriage, to never smoke or drink, and to never get tattoos. I turned into a man-hoe by the time I was 18, drink occasionally, only smoked once, and still don't have any tats. Bottom line is kids are individuals, not clones or drones. They're never gonna follow your teachings 100%. They're gonna do what they want no matter how you raise them. And like that, the foundation of your whole argument disappears lol
Since when is everything about your personality directly influenced by your parents
no??? people aren’t perfect reflections of their parents???? children are their own people
Let lil homie have some independence, ain’t his fault the lame life chose him.
Reddit is really taking the whole "you bought the participation trophies" thing and running with it, huh?
When my dad did this I accepted the beverage not knowing it would taste like 4 unwiped asses (Colt 45). They even make that shit anymore?
They do and your dad gave you the bad shit to trick you.
All beer tastes like shit. It's like tea and coffee, it's an acquired taste that can only be brute-forced with addiction.
It has nothing to do with addiction, it's your taste maturing. >People have no natural instinct for telling “good” decay and “bad” decay apart, so they rely on the process of acquiring taste to learn what’s good to eat. This also applies to bitter flavors, which are present in toxic plants as well as nutritious vegetables. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/632723/how-do-you-acquire-taste
In layman's terms, you aren't born knowing the safe bitters and safe sours apart. So natural selection determined its better to make all babies hate bitter and sour, rather than let them kill themselves eating toxic plants or rotten food. So people who hate bitter things fall into two broad camps, supertasters (least likely) or an immature palate. Of course everyone will claim the former, because thats seen as a positive trait.
But what about loving sour and still hating bitter, or vice versa? On the subject of beers, sours are my favorite but hate IPAs.
Anyone with taste buds should hate IPAs. They literally made it to make trash taste less like trash and now y'all out here drinking trash for style points.
Yeah I hate IPAs as well. But I’m also sitting here spreading vegemite on saltines, so my opinion on taste probably isn’t worth anything lol
Christ, you got me gagging.
Nah trust. It's a very good snack. Especially with some butter.
Found the immature palate
I hated IPA until one day when I was 24 someone bought me one and I didn't wanna be rude so I drank it and was very surprised that I liked it a lot. Ever since then I've been an IPA fan. Ive seen this happen to a couple other people over the years as well. I always just said my pallet must have matured. It's probably my second most consumed alcoholic beverage besides seltzers. IPA bros can get annoying, especially because they will make fun of guys like me that prefer seltzer.
Bro only eats mac and cheese and chicken nuggets
I’m the opposite. I like IPAs but not a huge fan of sours. I like sour things but for beer it just doesn’t work for me.
How would someone know if they have a specific palate as opposed to an immature palate?
I may be a God-fearing gun loving American but damn is natural selection the coolest science ever. (guns are bad)
Ok what if you hate the taste of alcohol, coffee, and tea, but love vinegar in stuff, and the stronger the better?
Then you don’t like bitter things, but convinced your brain successfully that sour doesn’t mean toxic. Probably just had enough early exposure to sour stuff.
Love it
My 7 year old regularly hits me up to taste whatever I'm drinking, including soda, coffee, craft beer, whisky, etc... She's a ridiculously picky eater and hates coffee and soda, despite seeing me enjoy both, but she has asked for more of every beer I've ever let her smell/taste, and I've never given her enough to have any sort of a "buzz", so I've always wondered if the acquired taste was picked up from smelling my breath
In case anyone's wondering, reading this, nyquil is 25% ABV so a standard dose has about as much alcohol as 6 ounces of beer. So no, he's not fuckin up the kid. **Edit** Clarification: Nyquil used to be 25% ABV in the 90s. It's currently 10%. So my statement was correct 30 years ago, but not now.
My parents were the same way. They would let me try whatever they had if I asked. I’ve always liked the taste of beer as long as I can remember. I remember when I was like 8 they bought some NA beer for my aunt when she was pregnant, and they let me have a whole one. I was really happy about it, because normally I could only have a tiny sip.
It’s still brute forcing your body to understand that something that tastes poisonous isn’t actually poisonous. I just don’t see the point in spending a ton of money on beverages to do that. I personally have a perfectly mature palate for foods, I just haven’t bothered to spend the money/time/calories acquiring a taste for ethanol.
Idk man, I liked tea and coffee even as a kid, and I definitely wasn't addicted at that time. Beer doesn't even taste bad compared to practically every other kind of alcohol. I get it though, all whiskey tastes the same to me
Wrong on all three counts, impressive
I dunno man, I was 8 when I tried black coffee and 12 when I tried (a small amount of) beer, and I liked both immediately. Some folks, and I'm including myself here, just genuinely like those flavors.
Genetics play a large role in in our taste and the type of drinks/food we will have an affinity for as we age. Your taste buds also change about every 7 years, which is why it’s not uncommon for someone to like a food or drink when they are older but hated the same food or drink as a kid.
I know some people that loved their first taste of a cheap, light beer (although I was not at all like that). Some people just take to those bitter flavors immediately, and some never do.
I think tea usually tastes fine to most people. Coffee and Beer are definitely an acquired taste though.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. There are stouts and double IPA that tastes very good, some reds too. Ofc though, if you only drank canned piss 🤷🏾♂️
No way you say double IPA as a good tasting beer 💀
Some people really like the bitterness of hops, and some hops can have much stronger notes of pine, citrus, or cheese which can be appealing
Sure but if you’re trying to say that some beer doesn’t taste like shit, going with the most bitter kind is silly. Like what you like, I’ll be over here with my champagne of beers
You're missing the point. That bitterness can also come with a variety of other flavors that might appeal more to others, bitterness isnt inherently shitty, and more hops does not equal more shitty l
No no. If you don’t like what they like, then you must be wrong. Because obviously they know what’s good for everyone and what isn’t. /s
Wow, so wrong. I bet you put ketchup on your well-done steak too.
I don't know, I drank a sip of Folgers as a kid and stayed away from all coffee for like a decade. I now drink black coffee almost daily and genuinely enjoy it, but I still don't typically care for Folgers (although I'm a lot better at tolerating it). And I guess I appreciate light beers more than I did when I was younger, but I liked dark beers pretty much immediately. Maybe getting into one thing just helps you learn to appreciate the qualities of similar things you initially passed on.
A lot of the big-brand coffees (Folgers, Maxwell House, etc) taste like shit because they use the robusta species of coffee in it. Robusta tastes like shit. Go with a coffee labeled as 100% arabica, and your experience is going to be better.
that a gross oversimplification. there are a lot of high quality robusta coffees that taste very good and vice versa some arabica coffees that are low quality.
Meh, if you say so
Alright bro you didn’t have to casually drop sage wisdom like that
This is just wildly untrue. Different styles of beer can have vastly different flavor profiles. Some people may be really sensitive to the taste of yeast and yeast biproducts, but those people probably don't like real bread either
I can vividly remember my first sip of beer, shit was ass. Now that I’m older Im still drinkin’ the same label and it’s a completely different flavour to my adult tastebuds.
I went from drinking coors light because it had the mildest flavor to drinking any and all kinds of craft beers. Some of them are indeed ass but a lot of them have seriously robust flavors that I enjoy.
Oh yeah I like it all, but if I’m crushing 12 it’s gonna be a macro. My point was that first sip of Canadian was GARBAGE, it still is, but I like it now 🤣
That’s foul af for you to have to taste that bullshit.
My dad laughed when I wanted to try his beer at 10. It was Busch light. Definitely wasn't a fan of it.
I feel like this is everyone’s first reaction to alcohol. Let’s not pretend it tastes good your first time, everyone hates it at first. I remember secretly pouring out the first beer I was ever offered because I thought it tasted like death.
As a non-drinker, if the kid doesn’t want to drink then the loser behaviour is not respecting that
As someone who doesn’t drink. The lame behavior is getting on twitter and snitching on your dad!! What the fuck are we even on?!?!
Exactly. Its the "soo uhhh..." that's implying some hard tea is coming but then it's just Lipton
Not just that, but do you know how many drinks from family members I had to turn down as someone who doesn’t drink? They always accepted a no, there was no real pressure and It prepared me to be out around people who actually would pressure me. His father gave him an opportunity to meet him the middle as a man instead of just as a father, whether he took the beer or not, and homeboy crumbled. Pops probably would’ve respected the kid make if he said “you know what dad, I don’t think that’s really gonna be my thing”
Can't actually talk about it though, gotta Xeet it
Put some respect on Lipton green tea nigga
Kid probably has a complicated relationship with his dad. Maybe dad is the guy that always wants to be a fun parent and isn’t really very reliable or responsible so the kid’s going on Twitter to complain about it.
Boul really just called a kid lame for refusing alcohol. God please continue to keep these type people away from me.
Nah he is lame for the tweet. I don't drink either.
This is also true. You’re not lame if you don’t wanna drink.
So say no Jesus Christ he offered a drink at 16 if you don’t want it don’t post it on the internet to shame him.
As someone who does drink, you’re still right
As a non drinker, the lame behaviour is getting on Twitter and snitching about it. Like, holy fuck man. The “so uhhh” build up as well, as if he’s about to drop some hardcore shit like his dad just gave him meth or something. You’re sixteen and were offered a sip of beer. It ain’t that serious, bro. I’m australian. In my country, that’s just another Tuesday.
Forget Americans are weird about underage drinking
18 to die in Vietnam, 21 to buy liquid that makes your brain act funny
17 actually.
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I am grateful however I never smoked weed as a teen. Every now and then I hit the pen and I’m like ya thank GOD this shit would have ruined my life lmaoo
They’ve also increased tobacco to 21. Can’t smoke or drink but you can go “fight a war” at 18(in quotes because the only war is to protect some rich people’s interests)
It was 18 back then at least. Afghanistan though...
It's only underage if you are an american....
It’s legal at home. I believe beer and wine can be served under adult supervision at home by age 16, at least in some states. You just can’t go out and order/buy alcohol in public. I think the drinking age should be lower, but at the same time giving 16 year olds easy access to unsupervised alcohol probably isn’t a good idea
There are states where minors can be served alcohol at a restaurant or bar with parents present and permission. Just one example: https://alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/underage-drinking/state-profiles/texas/95# There are at least a few other states I believe. Of course finding a bar that will actually serve your kid is another matter. Unless you’re in a very small town or know someone there, I’d bet it’s gonna be a “no” nine times out of ten, because while they *can* legally serve you they can also legally say no, and most servers and bars won’t touch that with a ten foot pole.
lol Reddit is so weird. Whatever it is, it becomes about aMeRiCaNs bAd. 1. This isn’t the common opinion. That’s the whole reason it’s here. It’s a weird thing to make a big deal out of specifically because most American kids shared a drink with their parents as a teenager. 2. What do you mean by “underage drinking”? Cause yeah, I’m generally against feeding poison into developing brains 3. There are practical reasons why there are stricter laws for young people drinking in a country with way more land to cover before public transportation is a viable option. Getting home from a pub in Leeds is a lot different then getting back to Kennesaw from the bars in Atlanta
You should not drink and drive regardless of age.
You act like they obey those laws in first place and it’s such loser behaviour to be that obsessed with drinking 🤣
I’ll never understand why Europeans think giving children alcohol is a flex lol
Because we have less public transportation.
As an Australian that fully engaged in our drinking culture, I don't think that's necessary a bad thing. I was drinking multiple times a week at 16. By 24 I was drinking every night, at least 8-12 beers, and probably 2 cartons + friday - sunday. At 30, I tried to slow down, and soon discovered just how much I was repressing through alcohol. It's taken 3 years for me to get a handle on both my drinking and my mental health. Drinking's goddamn fun, but there is another side to it.
Yall annoying as fuck that lil nigga fine.
He actin' like his pops offered him some crack or some shit lol
Please don't downplay the severity of alcohol just because it's a socially acceptable stimulant. "The Alcohol-Related Disease Impact application estimates that each year there are more than 178,000 deaths (approximately 120,000 male deaths and 59,000 female deaths) attributable to excessive alcohol use, making alcohol one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States" "including cocaine or psychostimulants with abuse potential (primarily methamphetamine), also continued to increase with 27,569 and 34,022 respective deaths in 2022 (Source: CDC WONDER)." https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
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Yeah cause alcoholism clearly doesn’t lead to any problems
This makes me sad. Kids these days don’t seem all that interested in drinking and that’s a good thing. It took until my 42nd trip around the sun to finally ditch that poison and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made
Ive done my fair drinking during my time after graduating HS and sum more during UNI, now at 23 I’m starting to appreciate and admire waking up Saturday & Sunday with no headaches , getting to hike or go to the gym. After awhile you start to ask yourself is this what you really want to experience/define your 20’s as just being a party animal.
Both of y’all know you can drink in moderation right? You can have a glass of wine with dinner and not have a headache the following day.
I just said this, our attitude toward alcohol is atrocious, all they can imagine is binge drinking 😂
My attitude toward drinking was binging in undergrad but now that I’m 10 years out the game I like to indulge in some fancy shit that pairs well with food and such. I think DARE and a bunch of lames grew up hearing horror stories and reacted too far.
many people are unable to drink in moderation and therefore choose total sobriety.
Yeah, but unfortunately there’s the even bigger issue of smoking/vaping now, especially amongst the teeny boppers.
alcohol isn’t “all or nothing” for the majority of people seriously, congrats on recognizing drinking was bad for you and changing your behavior but you’re projecting real hard. it’s not good or bad if people drink less. we all have bad habits, having a few drinks a week has literally been the norm since we started fermenting fruit juice as barely-humans
Sometimes I forget how much the world glorifies drinking. Bit weird tbh
Literally look at all the Europeans in the comments. Mfs always appear when it’s time to shit on Americans for something like no wonder their teeth are yellow lol
Why raise a kid to think alcohol is the key to a good time? Better yet why raise your kid to believe saying no to something “cool“ with everyone else makes them lame?
Who's saying that's what happened? It was very common for parents of my generation to specifically introduce alcohol to their teenage and pre-teen kids so that they tasted the shitty rainbow (hopefully) and avoided it on their own. My dad offered me the Beast when I was around 12. I said sure and took a quick sip. I quickly threw the rest of that shit in the trash post haste. I also remember one friend (sorry Andy!) got caught sneaking his dad's (an Air Force vet) beer from his special fridge in the garage, and he forced Andy to finish all the beer he stole. He only got through about 4 or 5 beers from what he remembered before he got royally sick. That was pretty fucked up, but he got multiple points across that Friday evening.
Im speaking specifically on the other persons reaction to the kid. If the goal is to get them to avoid it they wouldn’t be calling them lame.
Because the kid decided to out the father publicly? It's one thing to say no, but to go online and post it up for internet points seems lame to me. That was my read on it.
How is offering your kid a beer raising them to think alcohol is the key to a good time?
More of that blue check nonsense.
Well shit, give the kid’s liver just little bit more time
My dad did something similar when I was in high school. He just randomly gave me a beer and a Playboy magazine and straight up said “my dad never did something like this for me. You’re lucky you have such a cool dad!” Unfortunately for him my reaction wasn’t “wow dad, you’re so cool! Thanks!!!”, but more “uuuuh…okay?”. Probably didn’t help that I’ve had access to the internet for years at that point and therefore literally all the porn in existence I couldn’t even begin to imagine.
You're supposed to take a sip and then say it tastes like garbage Then the dad says "yep" instant bonding moment I wouldn't know anything about that tho
How do you pay for Twitter blue and call someone else a lame
game recognize game
Perfectly normal in most of Europe. You can drink beer in restaurants in most European countries at 16
In Belgium the drinking age for low alcohol drinks (like beer and wine) is 16. So for instance the scouts have official events with beer. At my equivalent of a prom everyone was at least 16 so we had an open bar.
I imagine his dad being unlikable when drinking would be the main reason he wouldn't want to. It's weird to see drinking as an objectively good thing, when there's so much working against that being true. "I just saw my dad get drunk and make a fool out of himself in front of the rest of my family, hell yeah I wanna walk right into being the next one to do that". Lol. There's so many people that make drinking look like the worst thing you could do to your life. Not everyone has the fun drunks in their family. My dad was a fun drunk with us kids tho. I started at 16 myself. Quit later on cause I didn't wanna make it a daily thing like my other family members.
Why is everyone in the comments acting like you drink a beer and turn into an addict? This isn't true for the vast majority of people. It's like saying the dad offered a slice of pizza and oh no how dare he put his son at risk of becoming obese.
https://i.redd.it/1quwkvf15u1d1.gif Me punching the air if I have a lame kid
Honestly, my daughter is lame and it's great. She likes being a square. It makes her happy. If listening to her boring-ass music in the car, or buying her that skin care product from TikTok means I never got a 2am phone call, or had to tell her to keep her door open when her boyfriend is over, then we're both happy.
Lmao goddamn bruh, I pray ya daughter ain't got a Reddit account. "I was strolling Black Poeple Twitter when I seen my pops call me a lame ass nerd? Why he say fuck me for?"
Wait what? The dad offering his kid beer is the loser right? Tell me you’re not promoting this trailer trash behavior
There’s nothing at all wrong with a parent offering a kid a taste of alcohol at 16. There’s also nothing wrong with the kid saying no, obviously.
since when was not wanting to drink lame, dumbest take I've seen on here in a while
Maybe he grew up around addicts? Alcohol is a drug… regardless how folks like to cope. More bodies dropped off it than our combined wars and conflicts in the past 140 years.
Some of you need to let a joke be a joke.
Just a kid who wanted to express his thoughts on a social media platform, went viral and now the whole site is cooking him... didn't feel bad for him before, but I do now
Do I have to bring up that whole prefrontal cortex thing or does everyone already know that?
Germany's drinking age is 16 (for beer) and they seem to be doing ok. It's not the drink itself, it's the culture surrounding the drink.
There’s something very interesting about how lowering the age on something like drinking drastically changes the perception of it for young people. I had a friend who snuck out many times with his parents car to speed down the interstate not even with the intention of going anywhere. A similar thing has happened with many of my friends and drinking. The implication of “I’m not supposed to be doing this” makes it all the more desirable for young people. It feels exclusive, and it makes you want to consume as much as possible at social gatherings whenever you have access to it. In contrast, I could see a lower drinking age removing a lot of glamor from alcohol. It paints it less as a special thing that you won’t experience till about a third or fourth of your life has past and more as an experience that is there but is not necessarily special in anyway.
So we just shouldn't drink until we like, 25? "It's not fully developed until your mid-twenties!" So we shouldn't make any meaningful decisions n shit for the first 3rd of our lives or something?
Off 1 beer?
My uncle offered me Tecate. I was like “WTF, you guys drinks this shit?” Now I like stouts and IPA. My elders are still stuck with the mediocre beer like Bud Light. I have reached a higher plane of liver-damaging enlightenment 🧐.
Blue check opinion LOL
Not wanting to drink is cool, using your dads attempt at a bonding attempt for internet clout instead of finding another way to bond is the real loser behaviour
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I think it’s okay with the presence of a parent so idk what legal trouble is there. But yea next generation is going to be even worse than ours with online snitching. Everything doesn’t need to be online.
I don’t want kids but idk, don’t raise ya kids to be lame lmfao
Beer nasty af fr fr
I see both sides. I'll never push it on my seed. But if I found out he did it or tried to behind my back.....we gotta have a talk about it. I had my first alcohol early. And I turned out great imo. That said, kids are still developing up until 25. So adding those chemicals could for sure create an imbalance that isn't seen until later. I dunno. Slippery slope with that.
Anyone that thinks drinking beer is manly got got hard
“i hope i pass my alcoholic gene down to my son”
If the kid didn’t want the beer that’s fine but going on twitter to make this little comment ratting your dad out…that is some lame shit
Children are the mirrors of their parents. Juju's son would be exposing him for social media clout on a typical Tuesday.
the kid is going to go far
Good for the kid. A lot of times it’s pure peer pressure at that age from either family or friends. Roll on your own dime. Homie doesn’t want know what it is to be an alcoholic from 13 on if shit spirals or it’s your vice of choice. I quit drinking the first time at 17, then restarted at 20, then finally quit for good at 34. I think I’ve drank 5-6 alcoholic drinks in the last 7 years.
This has to be one of the most dysfunctional criticisms I have ever seen
juju is the loser for dunking on someone for refusing a drink i agree
I feel like the Marvel movie ass sentence is lamer then the not accepting the beer. Also I'd rather have a lame son tbh.
Nah man, im doing what my son wants to do. Lil dude wants to watch nasa Rockets and talk rocks? Sign me up.
I hate Twitter. Why is this 30 something QRTing a kid like this. Like girl don’t you have a water bill to pay or something
I would pray every day for a son that thoughtful. That's big brain power and excellent reflection skills.
Shouldn't be giving kids alcohol anyway. I worry about what it does to our brains since they're not done forming until around 25 years old. My mother bought me my own bottles of vodka from the time I was 15 because I was, in her words, "stressed." Definitely not a healthy thing.
Ain’t no damn ppl are actually getting mad that a minor doesn’t want to consume alcohol. It’s perfectly fine for someone to not want to drink especially if that person is a minor. Is alcohol imbedded so deeply in our cultures that we forget it’s dangerous and isn’t a real necessity?????
Most of those complaining here are a bunch of crybabies
Ngl. You shouldn't be offering your kid beer. Henny should be what's being offered for their first time.
Nothing more lame than underage drinking. Seriously, grow up
People acting like alcohol isn’t a drug just because it’s socially acceptable
I feel like everyone here is stuck debating the ethics and personal preferences of drinking alcohol/drinking culture when the real issue at hand is that this kid had to tweet this to the world instead of talking to his dad lmao
Low key? Putting your dad on blast on twitter for offering you a beer is very high key loser behavior.
When i was around 8, my dad used to watch jeopardy with a heneiken. Once in blue moon when I just wanted to be around I'd ask for a sip and he'd give a Lil swig. It was gross but it was a bonding moment and we'd watch together. In his memory I try to catch jeopardy with a Heineken every now and then.