I worked at a gas station for 1/2 yrs (which was selling these) and only alcoholics bought them … how did I know they were alcoholics ? Because I’d see them buying the same 2/3 bottles every day or they’d take the toilet keys and one of those small vodka bottles with them and then buy another one when bringing back the key.
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Carmakazi@piefed.social 1 week ago
As a lame ass who doesn’t drink, is there a use case for those tiny liquor bottles beyond irresponsibly serving barely functional alcoholics?
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 week ago
Few reasons, actually. If they are teens, they are easy to hide, and generally only need a couple to get wasted. If they are adults… They are cheap, and it is easier to work up enough money for a small bottle to stop the DT’s, then work on getting money for getting properly drunk. Also a lot of places are only allowed to sell the small bottles of full strength liquor, and often alcoholics have been banned from most of the places that are licensed to sell all alcohol, or they have long since lost their driver’s license, and the only place that sells in walking distance is a gas station who can only sell half strength liquor, or these small bottles of full strength.
officermike@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My wife’s family used to do a Christmas party game where someone prepared a ball of cling wrap with small gifts inside: lottery scratch-offs, cash, candy, trinkets, and liquor nips. We’d sit in a circle and one person would frantically try to unravel the ball while the next person would roll and reroll a pair of dice to try to get doubles. When the dice matched, the ball moved to the next person.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah stuff like that, stocking stuffers, and trying something new are the main legitimate uses. Also if you’re craving a cocktail you know you probably won’t want much of it can be a good way to have a small amount of the ingredient.
I use the mini wine bottles for cooking on days I don’t want more than a glass of wine with dinner (particularly for red wine which my wife doesn’t drink)
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
You can put them in your minibar and charge premium for it in your hotel.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 week ago
In a perfect world where alcohol is given the proper regulations befitting a drug that ruins your life and the lives of those around you they’d be a good way to ration out a resonable amount of the harder liquors to people.
AscendantSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can keep them in your pockets for when you start to get the shakes