Prices are out of control

At least you won't die from dehydration

I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.
- Running between the rain drops to not get wet, then diving into the lake.
  
  Running between the rain drops
  https://youtu.be/A8kGxcBdXYs
- Move like a butterfly, sting like an insulin jab.
- I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you'll be an uptight bitch
  
  Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.
  It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.
- It’s the butter that did it for me. That’s fancy butter
  
  Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags

Can't even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy
- Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.
  I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.
  
  Yep, it's very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it's expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
  
  I mean I'm 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren't very aware of their limits lol)
  
  Its so expensive to go out now in any city, have to pregame for anything, not spending 30$ on a shot

Ewwwww is that sugar free coke?
- Looks like cherry coke zero.
  Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you're fucking up if you're not using full fat coke
  Though if the plan is to mix coke with that honey jack maybe the booze is sweet enough already
  
  That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you'd have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.
  
  That's why he got the Kerry gold he's gonna stir it in there
  
  I think the Jack D is for making bullet proof Jack D
  
  Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.
  
  Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.
  
  But if you can taste the coke, doesn't that mean you don't have enough alcohol in there?
  
  I'm pretty sure that's regular Coke zero, unless they've changed the packaging again
  But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn't work with alcohol
- Coke zero is decent
  Diet coke is disgusting
  Ditto Pepsi
  
  I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it's in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.
  For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that's an indicator or not.
  
  pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn't even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home
  are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old's bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated
  
  I hear this but I don't understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I've had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.
  I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go flavored sparkling water. I can't do that fake sugar shit. It's nasty.
  But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.
  
  I'm the opposite, I prefer diet Coke and diet Pepsi. Chances are that you don't like aspartame.
- Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.
- Coke zero is divine nectar
  
  It doesn't even work for dissolving rusted pistons or valves!
  
  idk it reminds me of chai somehow
- Gotta make up for all the sugar in the JD honey I guess

I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn't even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.
In case you're wondering if we care about what you're buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don't fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am
edit: oh and I learned about a new pasta last week, that was cool

Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won't notice a difference if you switch to a generic.
- Everyday, I watch as we stray further from God.
- The butter is to lube those cans before he slides them in the ol keaster.
- Regular butter for cooking
  Kerrygold salted for spreading
  'tis the only way
  
  Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven't bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
- Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.
- I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It's not even yellow, and they sell it in "sticks". I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.
  That's decent stuff that I use on the regular.
- Double blind test ‘em - fun and enlightening

Step 1: Wear a ski mask
Step 2: Shoplift?
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit?
(Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes "Profit" just not for you)
- Dress up as ICE and state that this is material needed to trap Irish thugs living illegally in the US.
  
  You could also demand to see the kerrygold's papers, and then leave with it.
  
  Sooooo a mask, sunglasses, a hoodie and no identification? 🥷
- At least the butter might come in handy (or by other limbs).

That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn't buy any of those but the butter.

I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.

I can confirm whiskey, coke, butter and a 12-pack of beers is all I need for the week.

That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don't want any of my money going there.
Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.
- Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.
  
  Wow I'm going to Aldi tomorrow and will try this!
- Drambuie is an old British honey and whisky liqueur.
  You can even make something like it youself: https://www.seriouseats.com/diy-drambuie-make-your-own-honey-scotch-liqueur-recipe
  
  Also you can make a Rusty Nail with some ice and a well Scotch.
- Crown Royal is Canadian. 🤷 Not sure if it's available where you are though.
  
  Thanks, I'll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.
- Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.
  Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don't know about honey flavored ones
  
  Yeah I'm having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.
  I use fake Red Bull because I think it's overpriced, not because it's not American.
- Have you tried Stag's Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?
  I'm sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.

KerryGold probably making half the bill, extortion, I tell ye!

It's a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.
The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.
- Isn't that kinda dangerous? Also potentially illegal depending on where you live.
  
  It's definitely dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. As in, "you can die" kind of dangerous.
  But if you know what you are doing, nah, it's perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.
  Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don't blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there's pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don't know about it, and neither does anyone else.
  
  It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
  
  Sure, but anything that involves drinking spirits by the pint is going to be dangerous so who cares?
  Only illegal if they catch you. He didn't record his face.
- You can brew your own lager or whatever for cheap too.
  
  Not as cheap as just plain alcohol. But yes, I home brew. Hops and Malt are not cheap, but sugar (insert any fermentable here, rice, cane sugar, corn, potatoes ext...) is.
  
  Not tried anything like that, generally prefer fermented fruits and bee juice.

I do have to say, JD Honey is delicious... can easily drink that on the rocks.
- Try American Honey, I definitely give it an edge over JD!
- Bleh! Try some makers mark straight up or with ice. It's still sweet without that corn syrup taste
  
  Ha, no worries. I have a decent selection I'm currently working on:
  
  Blegh, but then it tastes like makers.
  How about four roses small batch instead and we forget the sweet.
  
  Makers is so insanely overrated. If you're gonna spend that money anyways, any of these is a huge upgrade from makers:
  Mitchers
  1792
  Four Roses
  Basil Haydens

Is the butter there to get the taste of the other three out of your mouth?
- What a waste of good butter.

I am getting $15 dollar 3.5 grams of weed. You are doing it wrongly. Well weed tax but still.

Add another 20 bucks for the two packs of cigarettes for the two days. How could you forget that?
Also, honey Jack? Yuck. Jim Beam all the way baby.

We all need to make sacrifices. They should have gotten a handle of whiskey and drink water.

But is the butter salted?
- Yes. The unsalted version of that brand has silver packaging

Weird, I just had to do this with $65 and ended up getting it to $62 as the total. For a family of 4 for 4 days. It was hard and not the best options, but it worked.

I like those groceries....except the soda is bad for you and expensive /wasting money. Ditch the soda for water which mixes with whiskey just fine. Also Coors is like making love in a canoe.

I have seen someone grating cold butter and put it into a bowl with whiskey. Leave that in the fridge for a few days. The whiskey is supposed to taste better, and the butter was used for a whiskey buttercream cake.

Ingredients for Butterbeer Forte

That's 2 days? Not a big drinker, are you.
Also, Jack Daniel's? You don't like real whiskey? You prefer pretend-whiskey lemonade?
- I take it the coke is to mix with the Jack, which is acceptable.
  If you're getting a bottle of Blanton's for a mixed drink I'm going to punch you in the throat.
  
  I'll take a Pappy and RC cola on the rocks, please
  
  Jack is never acceptable. Also, it's coke zero. That's disgusting. Proper single malt whiskey is not for mixing but there's a lot of average blends which are perfect for whiskey coke.