Luckily, the oppressive reign of the corn-syrup drinks faces scattered resistance around Manhattan.
By the time we arrived at Catch a Rising Star, it was packed: standees three deep at the bar in front; an audience of about a hundred and fifty in the back room, seated at little tables, having drinks, facing a small platform with a standing mike.
Victorians who give family members raw milk to drink face fines of $60,000, and a strong bittering agent will be put into unpasteurised milk to deter people from consuming it.
"I can understand if he doesn't always want to cuddle with me," she said over drinks, her face conveying a combination of bewilderment and revulsion.
Mr Neil told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme: "I think some people in the drinks industry face the serious possibility of destroying their own credibility.
She's in every scene, with Thea's drink-ravaged face often shot in unforgiving close-up.
Ms. Kaufman is less forgiving with her parents' millionaire friend who "drank her face off at the wedding" and never gave a gift.
Immediately after drinks he faced his first ball of spin from Jayant Yadav and he was lbw attempting a hapless pull stroke.
And R has taken to bed in the afternoon because he would rather drink than face the outside world, and that makes me sad too.
Now an "auto pause" means that you don't have to keep stopping and starting the app every time you pause for a drink or face a red light.
