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by brianne oswald on January 3rd, 2006

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How come it's bad to drink before you eat? Or isn't it?

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  • by Aminor on February 6th, 2006

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    If you mean booze, it depends. More than a little alcohol beforehand will make the actual quality of the food progressively irrelevant, though how your enjoyment is affected, if at all, is personal to you. The assumption underlying the traditional aperitif is that for most people, one or too small ones will improve the occasion both by alerting the stomach that something's going on and by whatever relaxation may be caused, while leaving you still able to distinguish the salad from the soup.

    But if there's a question of effect on abilities (driving or whatever), and the amount of alcohol is at all significant, eating first will delay the digestion of the alcohol a little -- it has to wait its turn. I read somewhere that a large, relatively fatty meal, a stereotypical Italian feast for example, may delay the onset of the effect of alcohol by as much as 20 or 30 minutes. But effect there will certainly be -- there's nothing you can eat that will change that (nothing "coats the stomach" or any of the rest of that nonsense we used to tell each other when we were teenagers) or hasten its passing. So if the issue is driving, take a cab or something. If it's "whatever," start thinking of some excuses.

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