The rich and the poor drink roughly the same amount of units of alcohol a week.
But when the poor drank it to excess, they were viewed as a threat to society.
The water the poor drank was full of sewage and contained deadly cholera germs; in overcrowded tenements, the poor breathed clouds of tuberculosis bacteria.
The undeserving poor drink White Lightning in the daytime, have too many children, keep dangerous dogs and spend their lives lolling about on the sofa.
In comparison, sports drinks were way down the list, just above "sweetened, nutrient-poor drinks" such as Coca-Cola.
Cheaper and more unsavory competitors can dilute the market with poor quality drinks, and some brands choose not to put an exact age on their labels, hiding from consumers just exactly what they're buying.
It isn't just that the poor Consul drinks enough before breakfast to leave anyone else reeling; alcohol, though it is a source of many funny moments in the book, is no laughing matter.
He believed that people who drank Coca Cola were rich because he grew up poor and drank water from the river, but this guy took over his entire area.
In short, I was unmarried, poor and drank too much.
But then desperate times … Sure, more poor folk drink Coke.
Growing up in the Dominican Republic, poor, he drank water laced with sugar in place of juice.
