• Naich@lemmings.world
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    Less Scotch whisky going to American and less American whiskey coming over here? I’m struggling to see a downside.

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      As a Canadian I’ll pick up the slack and buy more of your EU whiskey.

      I like Irish — Jameson was my first whiskey and Red Breast is a favourite of mine. If Jameson brings back Crested I will purchase an entire case in day 1, I loved that one.

      Currently I’ve got tons of Scotch — a few bottles of Oban, a couple Lagavulins, Bowmore 15, the Balvenie, Laphroig Lore, Edradour, Tomintoul, Cutty Sark, Glen Scotia…

      I buy Macallan too but my shelf has too much on it to stock up right now.

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        There are great options everywhere, including American whiskey. But with so many options, losing one is not a big deal.

        I’d be curious how many people go looking specifically for American whiskey purposely looking past all other alternatives because that’s exactly what they want.

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          Like with many things there’s a degree of default-ism with American goods, and a lot of cocktail recipes call specifically for certain whiskeys. Even more generally than specific brands - bourbon, which is PDO. Could you use other whiskeys (if you can even find a non-bourbon corn whiskey), sure - but are you “following the recipe”? Is this bad because the recipe is bad, or because you picked a bad sub?

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        The only thing american whisky has going on for it is that it’s the cheapest. I guess that won’t be tha case with the tariff, so I don’t know why would anyone buy it.

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    Stop playing around dude, just put 1000% on everything from everyone and go play golf. Surely that won’t burn everything to the ground and cause him to get dragged into the street by an angry mob…

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      I just want to point out Trump does not equal America. But, unfortunately, we kinda suck in other ways and have been fucking over other parts of the world for a while, so… 🤷

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        The American people voted that into office, either directly or by not bothering to vote against it.

        America collectively chose this.

        I feel for those that actually wanted different, but until you can get through to your friends, family, and neighbours to fix this mess; America is going to be judged by the actions of the representatives they voted for.

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          Well, we are one of the most heavily propagandized countries on the planet. So, uh, wish me luck?

          But, for what it’s worth, I stand with the common citizens of any country. Even Russia. At least in that I don’t bear ill will towards the commoners anywhere.

          America desperately needs class solidarity. But, so does the planet. My two cents anyway.

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          There were massive amounts of blatant election interference, and Trump straight up admitted that they rigged the election.

          It’s super disingenuous to say that America collectively chose this.

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    Did the EU tarrif American alcohol or does trump think Canada is is in Europe?

    Quick edit:

    EU out a 50% tarrif on US whiskey yesterday, it’s still unknown if Trump thinks Canada is in Europe tho

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      It probably depends on the moment.

      I feel it oscillates from “basically already a state” to “European nation that happens to be next to us” to “damn Canadians won’t give me Greenland, must be the left.”

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    I’m … kinda ok with this particular, but my father was an abusive alcoholic. Although, his vice of choice was vodka which probably doesn’t apply.

    But fuck Trump tarrifs still, I just want a heavy booze tax, not some stupid man baby hissy fit with the rest of the world.

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        Yup, I know. Actually, when they did this with cigarettes they did see it go down a little with adults but the main thing was that it helped reduce youth smoking. Teens have a tighter budget for these things.

        But the bootlegging is unique to booze, so yeah.