Originally Posted By RoadTrip Minnesota rules once again!! Forbes’s list of America's most drunken cities: 1. Milwaukee 2. MINNEAPOLIS!!! 3. Columbus 4. Boston 5. Austin 6. Chicago 7. Cleveland 8. Pittsburgh 9. Philadelphia 10 Providence All those good-ol-boys down there in NASCAR land think they know how to drink. They don't know SQUAT compared to us folk up here in the Great White North!! Party on Garth... Source: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14487553/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14 487553/</a>
Originally Posted By mele LOL, I saw this list a couple of hours ago and thought about you, RT and DAR.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<LOL, I saw this list a couple of hours ago and thought about you, RT and DAR.>> I think it is a result of: 1) People in the Midwest more honestly report how much they drink. We are just that way. 2) We have a large number of treatment centers here because the "Minnesota Model" has been nationally accepted as the #1 way to treat alcoholism. 3) We have been slow to adopt laws meeting national standards of drunk driving. This is not because we support drunk driving, but because we don't like the Feds telling us what to do. Yes, Minnesota has traditionally been Democratic, but that is rooted in a strong POPULIST tradition. 4) RoadTrip's parties. What can I say?? ;-)
Originally Posted By Deogges Mom 5) What else is there to do when it's a hundred below with twenty feet of snow?
Originally Posted By mele ^^That was my philosophy while living in Alaska. LOL That's also why I chose not to raise my kids there. ;-)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 5) What else is there to do when it's a hundred below with twenty feet of snow? that's what I was thinking about us here in Chicago also..... and I'll add 6. If you were a Cubs fan, wouldn't you drink ?
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I bet if you conducted a surveyed and asked people what Milwaukee is famous for, a majority would say beer.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<I bet if you conducted a surveyed and asked people what Milwaukee is famous for, a majority would say beer.>> I bet if you conducted a survey and asked people what Minneapolis is famous for, a majority would say Lutefisk and Hot Dish. Booze is better.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I bet if you conducted a survey and asked people what Minneapolis is famous for, a majority would say Lutefisk and Hot Dish. < I would have said Walleye !
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ Blech! My company cafeteria serves lutefisk (occasionally), hot dish AND walleye (often). *shudder*
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "Blech! My company cafeteria serves lutefisk (occasionally), hot dish AND walleye (often). *shudder*" You obviously work for a bunch of sadists.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF ^^^ Heh...and you would know the company I work for! (Email me for details, if you want. Address is in my profile.)
Originally Posted By DAR <<I bet if you conducted a surveyed and asked people what Milwaukee is famous for, a majority would say beer.>> And Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, bratwurst and unfortunately Jeffrey Dahmer.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Irish Fest is a good association for Milwaukee, though! I sure had a fantastic time both times I went.
Originally Posted By patrickegan Don’t even tell me they insinuate that the Irish are a bunch of drunks…
Originally Posted By DAR We have a few ethnic festivals. Mexican(this weekend) German, Irish, Asian, Arab(ironic that it happened two weeks ago)African, Polish, Italian, French and probably a few others I'm missing.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Don’t even tell me they insinuate that the Irish are a bunch of drunks… >> Let's see I'm Irish, Slovak, German and from Milwaukee, drinking is in my blood.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF I really would have thought St. Louis would have been somewhere in the top 10.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder If this helps anyone, here's a paragraph lifted from the study's methodology. Maybe some people's favorite cities were just drying out for 30 days. "Drinkers: Cities were ranked 1 to 35, based on the number of adults who reported having had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, 2004. The higher a city's rank, the larger the percentage of its population are alcohol consumers."
