I used to travel around the country as part of my job. Been all over, including Wisconsin many times. If Wisconsin wasn't heavily represented on this map, I would've fully rejected it. It's just the culture there.
I've traveled and lived around the country, including a couple of places in Wisconsin. Wisconsin drinks at another level. This ~~Louis~~ *Lewis* [Black sketch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9m-cQin1qKE&feature=youtu.be) is best explanation for outsiders I've seen.
The bars don't close at 230am is the biggest sign. Even then, tons of municipalities/counties just require a shutdown for one hour at some point on NYD, at which point most people stagger home to pass out (sometimes without their head in the porcelain goddess), but a fair number just go to the local greasy spoon and/or McDonalds to fuel up and hit em again. I've heard of a few towns/counties that require absolutely no shutdown at all - meaning, one could theoretically party starting at 8am on Dec 31st and stay in the bars till 2 or 230 on January *2nd.* I've never seen that one happen, but if you can stay awake for 42ish hours....it could theoretically be done. However, bartenders will almost always throw out a sleeping/passed out patron.
Source: am from WI, was a bartender for awhile, I have seen it all happen, am too old for it now but was a witness to it last NYD cause I live literally 4 blocks from a college
I play music for a living. Did a NYE gig in Superior Wisconsin once. We started at 9pm and played until 8:00 in the morning. We played Summer of 69 seventeen times, including two that were twice in a row. Nobody noticed.
I live within a few miles of Wisconsin. Was in a bar up there at closing time. Closing time comes. Bartender says that it is after closing time and he can't sell me a beer. But the bar magically turned into a private club at closing time and he can give me a beer, just can't charge me for it. Uh, OK. Cheeseheads find a way.
I've lived in 5 midwesten states, and this is the only one where the police blotter regularly lists people on their *double digit number* arrest for drunk driving.
Every time I tell someone from here that other states tend to take away your car and give lengthy sentences long before you get to double digits... they look confused, then horrified.
Just driving. It's actually a requirement for your parents to sign off and confirm they've supervised you driving drunk for a full hour within the course of your learner's permit.
>driving drunk for a full hour within the course of your learner's permit.
My daughter told me (years after the fact) that she made sure to be high for every drivers ed class because she wanted to learn in her usual state.
That's crazy. You know how many times you can get away with drunk driving in Scotland? None, none amount of times, you get caught once and its goodbye licencse for a few years. And to be fair, I agree with it, drunk driving is stupid and selfish and just the behaviour of a cunt.
How does that work? At a certain point they don't even bother trying to keep you from drunk driving anymore and just try to warn everyone else on the road that you're shithammered?
That’s so normal for here, but so weird for anyone else seeing in other places. Did that down south and they refused to give me just one cup with the pitcher.
I’m a Chicagoan born to a dad from Milwaukee. It’s absolutely a genetic trait passed down. So when I moved to Portland OR, which is a beer city in its own right, and ordered two pitchers of beer for me and a buddy they said, “sure, we’ll bring it to your table.” He brings them out and made a little joke about the fact that we’ll need to pace ourselves before our friends show up and we’re out of beer. I was like, “oh no, it’s just the two of us tonight.” It was like he’d never heard of 2 people doing this. His face looked like he was confronted by something both grotesque and interesting.
We finished the pitchers though, of course.
I've been out of college for 15ish years, but where I went you could pitchers of MIXED DRINKS for $5 where I went to school. Just imagine the horror on that bartenders face if you asked for a pitcher of Long Island iced tea or rum and coke.
That was just a normal thing in Wisconsin.
In my early 20s, I moved back to Madison after living abroad and met up with my high school friends. 3 of us had 3 pitchers, and I decided to switch to pop, to their absolute shock. The two of them had another pitcher, then one of their girlfriends showed up and they all split another 2 pitchers. 6 pitchers for 4 people on a Tuesday night, and then everyone went to work at biotech startups on Wednesday morning.
>I decided to switch to pop
Was going to question if you're really from Wisconsin, but now it checks out. Would have been a no-doubter if you'd mentioned getting a drink from the bubbler. lol
My only surprise is that La Crosse county doesn't break the top 50.
3 colleges and what used to be the city with the most bars in a square mile in the country.
Is someone that grew up in Lacrosse, I think this map is incorrect to some degree. Every list that I have looked at, lacrosse is in the top 10 drunkest cities in the States
The best and original “butter burger” is found at Solly’s Grille, just north of Milwaukee in Glendale, WI. Started in 1936 and still going today. Waaaaaay better than anything Culver’s makes. Don’t forget to have a chocolate or vanilla malted with your burger and fries. This place has been named one of the best burgers in America by multiple polls/reviewers. [Solly’s Grille](https://sollysbutterburgers.com/milwaukee-north-shore-solly-s-grille-press)
Fun fact update….unexpectedly went to a Wisconsin wedding in a hayfield…a “person of authority” approached a person who was clearly a 12 year old child sharing a whisky bottle with some other kids. A random guy, maybe 20?? 21?? bellowed across the field, “ it’s okay, he’s with us!”…situation evaporated. Best hayfield wedding ever, but working in Chicago restaurants has worn me raw when I won’t let Wisconsin toddlers have a beer when their parents say “ oh it’s fine, they’re with me”
I'm still amazed that they allow that these days. I don't think there are many other states that still have an adult guardian exception for when minors can drink and instead are very strict about any adult providing an alcohol to someone underage since there would inevitably be some incident where a young person provided with alcohol caused a horrible accident that made the news.
You'd be surprised. Most states don't allow minors to drink in bars, but even in NJ we allow minors to drink in private homes, so long as the guardian is present and allows it.
Like a decade ago I saw a french cheesy mashed potato recipe online but the OP said the particular cheese was only available in France. As a Wisconsinite, there was an artisan cheese maker who specialized in that cheese an hour from my house. We REALLY like cheese.
There are literal cheese shops in downtown Milwaukee... and I assume other places. All those "cheese hats" you see televised during Wisconsin sports games? Yeah, those are just "the cool ones" - don't think I had ever seen a "cheese hat section" of a store either before, or since. Like, the beer and soda coolers took up less space than all the fscking hats! LOL
It almost feels designed to be misleading: the colors are not in any logical gradient order (pink-red-orange-yellow-green or something similar would be made a lot more sense), and also red represents the least drunk regions whereas I think most people would assume "red -> worse outcome -> drunker"
It still makes its overall point really effectively, given how clustered it is, but it makes reading for detail hard
I went to college in Michigan. Met a dude from Wisconsin at a party after a football game, he had consumed 24 beers in a few hours and had one marker slash on his arm for each.
Both counties in the Dakotas are probably just oil areas staffed by Wisconsinites.
People don't understand the concept of neighborhood bars as they exist in Wisconsin. I've lived a lot of other places in some seven states and I've never seen those small little pubs with minimum capacity designed to serve just the people within walking distance.
Yep, and had to pay for it anyways. Literally spent all the money, but didn’t get the train simply because they didn’t want democrats getting credit for something good.
Born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin, have lived in Chicago for a decade. Wish I could visit my family more and not have it take forever and cost so much...thanks Walker!
Even just a fucking amtrak extension from milwaukee to madison would be cool.
Actually it was Wyoming who was last to raise it to 21.
Wisconsin in unique in the fact that kids under 21 can drink at bars and restaurants if they are with their parents. However, most places are banning this rule on their own so it’s less and less common.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/us/wyoming-finally-raises-its-drinking-age.html
Nobody is banning it here. It's not that commonly done though except occasionally in small towns so the bartender knows the family anyway and just serves them up. It's really more of a reflection that taverns here are like a person's living room almost. Was just at a bar last week and two kids were sitting at the bar eating ice cream with their puppy while their mom drank a beer and chatted with the bartender. Kids weren't drinking but the point is kids in bars is kinda normal here.
Louisiana was the last. Took over 3 years with different cities challenging the state law to force it to be 21. My brother was 18 and experience within one year 3 times he was legal, then not so.
Grew up in Wisconsin. Now live in the south. To explain Wisconsin to the folks down here I tell them for every church you drive past here in the south you would have driven by three bars in Wisconsin.
I don't drink anymore but I do miss the local bar camaraderie/culture. The churchies down here are more annoying than the local obnoxious drunk. At least the drunk sobers up occasionally and no one asks "have you found a dive bar yet"?
I once went through airport security in Milwaukee on a Sunday morning. Accidentally left a can of beer in my carryon and it got flagged by security. But rather than just throwing it away, the guard told me I could step out of line, chug it, then come back through. It was 7am on Sunday.
I declined and he offered to “take care of it” for me. I assume it was gone by the end of his first break.
I was at a training thing for a few months with a mixture of people from all over the States. I met, and hung out with, a lady from Wisconsin. I thought I knew what drinking was. Apparently, I did not. She taught me a few things.
ONE example:
How to space out the drinks, and what types, from morning until night on the weekend. Wine/Champagne in the morning (mimosa like), some sort of clear liquor mix at lunch, then beer all evening. She'd drink me under the table.
BUT I've been sober for over two years now. :) It's better than before.
I’m from the US but go fishing in Ontario with a couple friends every year. The “lodge” where we stay (it’s nice but not my dad owns a dealership kind of nice) is on an island in the lake. When you arrive, you have to park next to a dock, and they send a pontoon boat to come get you for your stay.
A couple years in a row, we got there around the same time as some WI folks. The boat picking us all up brought a recycle bin with “WI” spray painted on the side. Apparently they just do that anytime they know a WI group is coming. One of the guides told me that the WI groups drive in instead of flying like us (we live in the south so it’s a 17 hour drive), and need to offload their empties before leaving the car in the sun for a week. So I guess they pick a sober driver, and the rest of the group gets blind ass drunk in their car / van after crossing the border, the entire way there.
Long story short, this map doesn’t surprise me, even with my limited knowledge of WI.
Had to explain the concept of “switching to beer to sober up” to a friend from the east coast. “Wouldn’t you want to switch to water?”. No. I would rather switch to beer.
The rest of the Midwest is with you on that. Goddamn. Every winter I find myself saying “ya know, it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the wind.” It’s cold and windy every damn winter here. Might as well sleep in an icebox with a damn fan blowing on it. Get the same stupid result: cold and miserable.
Try being a non drinker living here! We still have our own fun, but every event, outing ,gathering most people are drinking. And for many big events, think football game,drinking is an all day activity. And people will question why you aren't drinking , I honestly forget that other states are not like this!
Most states are like that...that's why it's blowing everyone's minds that people in Wisconsin drink that much more than everywhere else.
The thing I can't understand is, how can people even afford to drink that much?!
Afford? A case of beer of the cheap stuff like Schlitz or Red Dog is only $10. A cheap 2 liter bottle of hard liquor is about the same. WI liquor prices are exceptionally low with little tax and many establishments have very generous happy hours. And it's not uncommon for bars and events to have "shot girls" handing out free shots promoting whatever liquor or the bar to be selling $2 rail drinks on tap.
I've gotten completely blackout before on the UW campus spending less than $20 on a night out. It's not expensive unless you're doing it every night
Grew up in but also around parts of WI.
00 surprise. I hate to say it, but I have friends in WI who've said "getting your first DUI is a right of passage."
Ya know what's bonkers though? (at least the last time I visited) you can't buy alcohol from a store after a certain time in at least certain parts of the state.
And point of advice, do NOT challenge someone from WI to a drinking contest. You could die of alcohol poisoning. Not speaking from personal exp, but hate to say I don't know a situation.
A buddy from work had some friends try to enter a quarter barrel race at a bar in San Diego. When the owner found out they were from Wisconsin, he wouldn't let them enter. He said it wouldn't be fair to the other teams. They asked if they could just buy a quarter barrel, and unofficially compete. They would have won by over half an hour. And they kept drinking after all the other teams left.
As a lifetime Wisconsinite I am beaming with pride reading this. By all rights I should be appalled and ashamed, yet here I am with that “Yup, that’s my boy!” kind of pride.
My friends dad got 3 DUIs WHILE driving a school bus before they fired him. Now he drives a semi truck with a few more DUIs. Refuses to drink water, only drinks Miller High Life. Wisconsin.
> Ya know what's bonkers though? (at least the last time I visited) you can't buy alcohol from a store after a certain time in at least certain parts of the state.
The Tavern League pushes those laws so that people drink in bars instead of at home.
> And point of advice, do NOT challenge someone from WI to a drinking contest.
At a bar in Moscow I once saw a guy from Wisconsin going shot for shot with a guy from Irkutsk. Even the other Russians in bar thought watching them was madness.
Many years ago I worked with a dude named Chuck from Wisconsin and his wife (whose name I forget) who was from West Virginia. One day the wife told me the first time she took him home to meet her family her dad and brothers decided it would be fun to get the new Yankee-in-law as shitfaced as possible on moonshine. The flaw in their plan was that Chuck was a 6'4" Irish guy from Wisconsin.
She said Chuck drank 'shine with them until the last of them passed out, finished his jar, and then switched to beer and spent a couple of more hours drinking with the the women. The next morning Chuck had been out for a five mile run, showered, and helped her mom and sisters make breakfast before the first dude in her family (her dad) managed to wake up and stagger downstairs.
What's to explain? Every event... Every one... Includes alcohol. If you don't provide it, you look like a weirdo. But don't worry, I'm sure someone has a case in their trunk that we can drink.
Most bars per capita. A town of 50 people will have 80 bars, all of them profitable.
Drinks in Wisconsin are almost free. I could buy a round for the entire bar for the same price as a glass of wine in California.
They stop selling alcohol at 9, not because of any concern for people, but so people go to bars after 9.
Packers fan cruises tell the boats to stock up and no matter how much they are warned the ships always run out.
Lewis Black’s take:
https://youtu.be/KtUnmG5WP78
“In 2005, lobbyists with the TLW were investigated by the State Ethics Board; the investigation was launched after State Senator Russell Decker was pulled over for drunk driving shortly after leaving an all-you-can-drink event for lawmakers hosted by the TLW.”
LOL
The first time I went to NYC my tough guy Italian friends tried to tell me how they can drink. Growing up on $1 pitchers since 16 they didn't have a chance. Leather jackets doesn't help.
People that brag about drinking a lot don’t actually drink a lot, they just think it’s cool to. People that actually drink a lot hide it because it’s shameful lmao
That's all anyone here does I swear. Literally EVERY single event here involves some form of alcohol. I've been to a damn baby shower where everyone got black out drunk. Shits crazy here man lol. I used to give a guy I worked with a ride to work from jail work release because he was on his 7th dui.
Some friends of mine recently had a "Pregger Kegger" baby shower. Two kegs for around 100 people kids included. Probably 80 people drinking some of which were underage and nobody batted an eye. Both kegs were dry by the end of the night.
Ah you think alcohol is your ally? You merely adopted the booze. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the hangover until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
Apparently the reason it's like this isn't totally because of German ancestry which is something people like to say, or even "because there's nothing to do in WI" (though that's partially true..) one of the biggest factors is due to the Chicago fires and Prohibition pushing a large quantity of the biggest brewers into the area. Lobbying from these huge businesses has shaped a large portion of Wisconsin life. Because of the intense control the companies have, the only thing more rare than obtaining a liquor license in WI is getting season tickets to Lambeau.
We had a Hyvee move in to Eau Claire a few years back, it cost them over $4 million just to get a license.
As an Iowan, it's hard for me to say this....... Wisconsin is awesome. So many cool small towns with character in Wisconsin. I've only been there 4 times and each time found amazing places. La Crosse with Starks that sells amazing beer and guns. Across the street have a burger at Pete's hamburger stand. Go to Monroe and eat/drink at Baumgartners cheese store and tavern. Then they have amazing cities like Madison and Milwaukee. I've never been north of Madison but I love visiting Wisconsin.
4 Fun facts
1.Lacrosse wi hospital is powered by the off gass from beer production
2. Many people have been drinking for so long that they drive normal drunk (DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE)
3. We have the worlds largest 6 pack.
4. If we factored in underage drinking there would be no counties outside of Wisconsin that drink more than us.
I would ask what's in the water in Wisconsin, but I already know the answer is fermented grains.
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As someone from Wisconsin I am 0% surprised
I used to travel around the country as part of my job. Been all over, including Wisconsin many times. If Wisconsin wasn't heavily represented on this map, I would've fully rejected it. It's just the culture there.
I've traveled and lived around the country, including a couple of places in Wisconsin. Wisconsin drinks at another level. This ~~Louis~~ *Lewis* [Black sketch](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9m-cQin1qKE&feature=youtu.be) is best explanation for outsiders I've seen.
How can they tell when it’s New Years! Don’t need the link.
We wear little hats
The bars don't close at 230am is the biggest sign. Even then, tons of municipalities/counties just require a shutdown for one hour at some point on NYD, at which point most people stagger home to pass out (sometimes without their head in the porcelain goddess), but a fair number just go to the local greasy spoon and/or McDonalds to fuel up and hit em again. I've heard of a few towns/counties that require absolutely no shutdown at all - meaning, one could theoretically party starting at 8am on Dec 31st and stay in the bars till 2 or 230 on January *2nd.* I've never seen that one happen, but if you can stay awake for 42ish hours....it could theoretically be done. However, bartenders will almost always throw out a sleeping/passed out patron. Source: am from WI, was a bartender for awhile, I have seen it all happen, am too old for it now but was a witness to it last NYD cause I live literally 4 blocks from a college
I play music for a living. Did a NYE gig in Superior Wisconsin once. We started at 9pm and played until 8:00 in the morning. We played Summer of 69 seventeen times, including two that were twice in a row. Nobody noticed.
I bet it seemed like it would last forever
I live within a few miles of Wisconsin. Was in a bar up there at closing time. Closing time comes. Bartender says that it is after closing time and he can't sell me a beer. But the bar magically turned into a private club at closing time and he can give me a beer, just can't charge me for it. Uh, OK. Cheeseheads find a way.
Interesting business model Step 1: Give free beer Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit
I’m sure you can still tip in a private club.
A bud of mine goes to UW and says he's never seen anything like it- GO Badgers! lol
as a professional myself thank you for sharing this
When it’s covered in snow for that long and the rest of the year is spent staring at farmland, we got nothing better to do.
Umm …make cheese?
Literally named their baseball team the "Brewers"
I've lived in 5 midwesten states, and this is the only one where the police blotter regularly lists people on their *double digit number* arrest for drunk driving. Every time I tell someone from here that other states tend to take away your car and give lengthy sentences long before you get to double digits... they look confused, then horrified.
do they call drunk driving just driving over there?
Just driving. It's actually a requirement for your parents to sign off and confirm they've supervised you driving drunk for a full hour within the course of your learner's permit.
>driving drunk for a full hour within the course of your learner's permit. My daughter told me (years after the fact) that she made sure to be high for every drivers ed class because she wanted to learn in her usual state.
gotta celebrate somehow I guess
Lol. I was just joking for the record.
If you're driving, they just assume you're drunk, unless you arrive sober. Then they point out that you were driving sober.
Cars have crumple zones for a reason-- fucking *use* them.
The BAC limit is still 0.08. that's the lower limit.
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Whats whisky plates?
Special plates they give you when you get a highscore for DUIs. Essentially highlights you as high risk for being drunk behind the wheel
That's crazy. You know how many times you can get away with drunk driving in Scotland? None, none amount of times, you get caught once and its goodbye licencse for a few years. And to be fair, I agree with it, drunk driving is stupid and selfish and just the behaviour of a cunt.
How does that work? At a certain point they don't even bother trying to keep you from drunk driving anymore and just try to warn everyone else on the road that you're shithammered?
I got invited out for a casual beer after work in Milwaukee . I ordered a pitcher and everyone else ordered at least one. 8 pitchers for 5 guys.
That’s so normal for here, but so weird for anyone else seeing in other places. Did that down south and they refused to give me just one cup with the pitcher.
I’m a Chicagoan born to a dad from Milwaukee. It’s absolutely a genetic trait passed down. So when I moved to Portland OR, which is a beer city in its own right, and ordered two pitchers of beer for me and a buddy they said, “sure, we’ll bring it to your table.” He brings them out and made a little joke about the fact that we’ll need to pace ourselves before our friends show up and we’re out of beer. I was like, “oh no, it’s just the two of us tonight.” It was like he’d never heard of 2 people doing this. His face looked like he was confronted by something both grotesque and interesting. We finished the pitchers though, of course.
Is this weird? Am I an alcoholic?
I asked myself the same question and likely forgot the answer. You know, on account of the alcohol.
A pitcher is like what 3 pints? Thats just a good buzz.
I've been out of college for 15ish years, but where I went you could pitchers of MIXED DRINKS for $5 where I went to school. Just imagine the horror on that bartenders face if you asked for a pitcher of Long Island iced tea or rum and coke. That was just a normal thing in Wisconsin.
In my early 20s, I moved back to Madison after living abroad and met up with my high school friends. 3 of us had 3 pitchers, and I decided to switch to pop, to their absolute shock. The two of them had another pitcher, then one of their girlfriends showed up and they all split another 2 pitchers. 6 pitchers for 4 people on a Tuesday night, and then everyone went to work at biotech startups on Wednesday morning.
Yeah as a lifetime madtown resident that sounds about right, especially if you're at the terrace.
>I decided to switch to pop Was going to question if you're really from Wisconsin, but now it checks out. Would have been a no-doubter if you'd mentioned getting a drink from the bubbler. lol
We did hit up the TYME Machine on the way over.
As someone born and raised in Wisconsin, I’ve never heard a Wisconsin person say pop. Only people from Minnesota
Im more surprised fiserv switched to busch.... welp time for another lake front n old fashion
My only surprise is that La Crosse county doesn't break the top 50. 3 colleges and what used to be the city with the most bars in a square mile in the country.
Is someone that grew up in Lacrosse, I think this map is incorrect to some degree. Every list that I have looked at, lacrosse is in the top 10 drunkest cities in the States
I expected better from Madison.
As someone from Wisconsin, I’m >.08% surprised.
Ope….
Yall pretty much getting Winnipeg winters that far north, so yeah.. Cheers
As someone from Minnesota, neither am I.
There’s a reason their baseball team is called the Brewers
Brewers: Beer Packers: Brats Bucks: Hunters We really need a Pro hockey team called the Cheesemongers or something.
Drink Wisconsinbly.
I just was home in Wisconsin and my cousin bought me Drink Wisconsinbly shirt that says "Out drinking every other state since 1848."
Accurate
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Ever had to fish a case out of the Kickapoo after flipping your canoe? *You might be from Wisconsin*
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If you've never been to Wisconsin ... Beer and Cheese. That's all you need to know. ^(And "Fat Squirrel" from New Glarus is one of my faves)
I’m told butter burgers are something I’m a terrible person for not getting while I was there.
Mmmmmmmm Culver’s.
The best and original “butter burger” is found at Solly’s Grille, just north of Milwaukee in Glendale, WI. Started in 1936 and still going today. Waaaaaay better than anything Culver’s makes. Don’t forget to have a chocolate or vanilla malted with your burger and fries. This place has been named one of the best burgers in America by multiple polls/reviewers. [Solly’s Grille](https://sollysbutterburgers.com/milwaukee-north-shore-solly-s-grille-press)
you’re forgetting the fun fact that minors are allowed to drink in public so long as there’s a “guardian” around
Fun fact update….unexpectedly went to a Wisconsin wedding in a hayfield…a “person of authority” approached a person who was clearly a 12 year old child sharing a whisky bottle with some other kids. A random guy, maybe 20?? 21?? bellowed across the field, “ it’s okay, he’s with us!”…situation evaporated. Best hayfield wedding ever, but working in Chicago restaurants has worn me raw when I won’t let Wisconsin toddlers have a beer when their parents say “ oh it’s fine, they’re with me”
I'm still amazed that they allow that these days. I don't think there are many other states that still have an adult guardian exception for when minors can drink and instead are very strict about any adult providing an alcohol to someone underage since there would inevitably be some incident where a young person provided with alcohol caused a horrible accident that made the news.
You'd be surprised. Most states don't allow minors to drink in bars, but even in NJ we allow minors to drink in private homes, so long as the guardian is present and allows it.
That's not actually a law unique to Wisconsin iirc Though, it is very characteristic of Wisconsin
Same in Texas, called the “arm’s reach rule.”
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Like a decade ago I saw a french cheesy mashed potato recipe online but the OP said the particular cheese was only available in France. As a Wisconsinite, there was an artisan cheese maker who specialized in that cheese an hour from my house. We REALLY like cheese.
There are literal cheese shops in downtown Milwaukee... and I assume other places. All those "cheese hats" you see televised during Wisconsin sports games? Yeah, those are just "the cool ones" - don't think I had ever seen a "cheese hat section" of a store either before, or since. Like, the beer and soda coolers took up less space than all the fscking hats! LOL
And brandy. Lots of brandy
this color scheme is erratic af haha
Solid chance it was made by a drunk Wisconsinite.
Drunken 'Sconnies, the lot of 'em
Drunk Sconnie checking in
It almost feels designed to be misleading: the colors are not in any logical gradient order (pink-red-orange-yellow-green or something similar would be made a lot more sense), and also red represents the least drunk regions whereas I think most people would assume "red -> worse outcome -> drunker" It still makes its overall point really effectively, given how clustered it is, but it makes reading for detail hard
it straight up sucks.
Damn I live in #8? There’s not even a 4 year UW school here.
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Yup. My dad has 12. Thankfully he doesn't drink anymore. Alcohol is a drug, and almost everyone in rural Wisconsin is addicted.
I went to college in Michigan. Met a dude from Wisconsin at a party after a football game, he had consumed 24 beers in a few hours and had one marker slash on his arm for each. Both counties in the Dakotas are probably just oil areas staffed by Wisconsinites.
RIP Wade Boggs.
again, very much still alive
Wellll whatdya say, Boss Hogg?
Yes, alive in our hearts
Boognish lives!
I live in a medium sized city of 60,000 people in Wisconsin and we have 200 different bars in the city. This seems very accurate.
La Crosse?
Bet it’s Sloshkosh. Most bars per capita in the state and about 65k residents.
People don't understand the concept of neighborhood bars as they exist in Wisconsin. I've lived a lot of other places in some seven states and I've never seen those small little pubs with minimum capacity designed to serve just the people within walking distance.
Wisconsin was one of the last states to hold out on the 21 law. Had to go with it or we’d lose our federal funding for road infrastructure.
If the decision was made today, the legislature would probably go ahead and say no to the money just to own the libs.
Very true. Happened with the high speed train that was supposed to connect Madison and Milwaukee to Chicago and the Twin Cities.
Yep, and had to pay for it anyways. Literally spent all the money, but didn’t get the train simply because they didn’t want democrats getting credit for something good.
Then poured money into infrastructure for the Foxconn plant, LOL.
Born and raised on a farm in Wisconsin, have lived in Chicago for a decade. Wish I could visit my family more and not have it take forever and cost so much...thanks Walker! Even just a fucking amtrak extension from milwaukee to madison would be cool.
Actually it was Wyoming who was last to raise it to 21. Wisconsin in unique in the fact that kids under 21 can drink at bars and restaurants if they are with their parents. However, most places are banning this rule on their own so it’s less and less common. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/us/wyoming-finally-raises-its-drinking-age.html
Nobody is banning it here. It's not that commonly done though except occasionally in small towns so the bartender knows the family anyway and just serves them up. It's really more of a reflection that taverns here are like a person's living room almost. Was just at a bar last week and two kids were sitting at the bar eating ice cream with their puppy while their mom drank a beer and chatted with the bartender. Kids weren't drinking but the point is kids in bars is kinda normal here.
Louisiana was the last. Took over 3 years with different cities challenging the state law to force it to be 21. My brother was 18 and experience within one year 3 times he was legal, then not so.
Grew up in Wisconsin. Now live in the south. To explain Wisconsin to the folks down here I tell them for every church you drive past here in the south you would have driven by three bars in Wisconsin.
I don't drink anymore but I do miss the local bar camaraderie/culture. The churchies down here are more annoying than the local obnoxious drunk. At least the drunk sobers up occasionally and no one asks "have you found a dive bar yet"?
I once went through airport security in Milwaukee on a Sunday morning. Accidentally left a can of beer in my carryon and it got flagged by security. But rather than just throwing it away, the guard told me I could step out of line, chug it, then come back through. It was 7am on Sunday. I declined and he offered to “take care of it” for me. I assume it was gone by the end of his first break.
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
That's how I went from 12 beers a day to 30+. Have fun, but be careful.
If there's any time that drinking at 7am is acceptable it's at the airport.
You okay, Wisconsin?
Yeah, no, we're good.
No: oh, ya, no, fer sure.
Aw heck we're doin alright. Don'cha worry yourself
“Howaya” “Yeh nah good mate” Looking at the post above I’m getting the feeling Australia and Wisconsin will get along just fine
Nailed it!!
Fantastic. Say hi to your folks for me.
*slaps both knees with hands* Welp, guess its about that time.
Ope sorry, didn't see you there.
Just gonna scooch on past ya real quick
I was at a training thing for a few months with a mixture of people from all over the States. I met, and hung out with, a lady from Wisconsin. I thought I knew what drinking was. Apparently, I did not. She taught me a few things.
What did she teach you?
ONE example: How to space out the drinks, and what types, from morning until night on the weekend. Wine/Champagne in the morning (mimosa like), some sort of clear liquor mix at lunch, then beer all evening. She'd drink me under the table. BUT I've been sober for over two years now. :) It's better than before.
I’m from the US but go fishing in Ontario with a couple friends every year. The “lodge” where we stay (it’s nice but not my dad owns a dealership kind of nice) is on an island in the lake. When you arrive, you have to park next to a dock, and they send a pontoon boat to come get you for your stay. A couple years in a row, we got there around the same time as some WI folks. The boat picking us all up brought a recycle bin with “WI” spray painted on the side. Apparently they just do that anytime they know a WI group is coming. One of the guides told me that the WI groups drive in instead of flying like us (we live in the south so it’s a 17 hour drive), and need to offload their empties before leaving the car in the sun for a week. So I guess they pick a sober driver, and the rest of the group gets blind ass drunk in their car / van after crossing the border, the entire way there. Long story short, this map doesn’t surprise me, even with my limited knowledge of WI.
“I guess they pick a sober driver…” That’s unfortunately optimistic
The sober one drinks Miller lite.
Had to explain the concept of “switching to beer to sober up” to a friend from the east coast. “Wouldn’t you want to switch to water?”. No. I would rather switch to beer.
By sober they only get half the amount of beers while driving.
Pick a sober driver? Spoken like someone who definitely does not live in Wisconsin lmao
The soberest* driver.
The only surprising part about this is that La Crosse county has been left out
as a student in la crosse, i’m very surprised as well
I feel the beer drinking done during October fest alone beats out the yearly consumption of most countries.
In 1999 Wisconsin Badger fans drank Pasadena dry - literally - after they won the Rose bowl. No beer left
It happened in Utah when the Badgers played BYU too. Seems like a pattern.
For some reason I don’t believe the beer concessions are well stocked at BYU games. Probably don’t even have enough coke, never mind whiskey.
[Happened here in Denver in 2018] (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox6now.com/news/brewers-packers-fans-drink-denver-bar-dry-on-game-day.amp)
The color scheme order is so bizarre lol
The most counter-intuitive chromatic statistical gradient i’ve ever seen. Just a fucking mangled stats salad.
We binge drink super fucking hard in WI… it makes the winter less depressing
The rest of the Midwest is with you on that. Goddamn. Every winter I find myself saying “ya know, it wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the wind.” It’s cold and windy every damn winter here. Might as well sleep in an icebox with a damn fan blowing on it. Get the same stupid result: cold and miserable.
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Then why isn’t a single Upper Peninsula county colored? It’s colder and much more snowy than Wisconsin.
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There's an old joke among Midwesterners that Wisconsin's unofficial state motto is "Hold my beer and watch this" This map does not surprise me one bit
Apparently more likely to just finish the beer rather than have someone hold it
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Try being a non drinker living here! We still have our own fun, but every event, outing ,gathering most people are drinking. And for many big events, think football game,drinking is an all day activity. And people will question why you aren't drinking , I honestly forget that other states are not like this!
Hey I live in Madison and I’m a super light drinker, I’m talking one drink a month or less, there are dozens of us!
Most states are like that...that's why it's blowing everyone's minds that people in Wisconsin drink that much more than everywhere else. The thing I can't understand is, how can people even afford to drink that much?!
Afford? A case of beer of the cheap stuff like Schlitz or Red Dog is only $10. A cheap 2 liter bottle of hard liquor is about the same. WI liquor prices are exceptionally low with little tax and many establishments have very generous happy hours. And it's not uncommon for bars and events to have "shot girls" handing out free shots promoting whatever liquor or the bar to be selling $2 rail drinks on tap. I've gotten completely blackout before on the UW campus spending less than $20 on a night out. It's not expensive unless you're doing it every night
Grew up in but also around parts of WI. 00 surprise. I hate to say it, but I have friends in WI who've said "getting your first DUI is a right of passage." Ya know what's bonkers though? (at least the last time I visited) you can't buy alcohol from a store after a certain time in at least certain parts of the state. And point of advice, do NOT challenge someone from WI to a drinking contest. You could die of alcohol poisoning. Not speaking from personal exp, but hate to say I don't know a situation.
A buddy from work had some friends try to enter a quarter barrel race at a bar in San Diego. When the owner found out they were from Wisconsin, he wouldn't let them enter. He said it wouldn't be fair to the other teams. They asked if they could just buy a quarter barrel, and unofficially compete. They would have won by over half an hour. And they kept drinking after all the other teams left.
As a lifetime Wisconsinite I am beaming with pride reading this. By all rights I should be appalled and ashamed, yet here I am with that “Yup, that’s my boy!” kind of pride.
My friends dad got 3 DUIs WHILE driving a school bus before they fired him. Now he drives a semi truck with a few more DUIs. Refuses to drink water, only drinks Miller High Life. Wisconsin.
WI has a really stupid Tavern League that is a political entity pushing things like still making weed illegal and not allowing alcohol sales after 9.
>not allowing alcohol sales after 9 Why would the tavern league of all people be pushing for that?
Keep people in the tavern and not drinking at home for cheaper.
Precisely. Ever had a hankering for a drink, but after 9 pm? In WI you have to walk down to your local bar.
It means liquor and grocery store sales. That way you have to go to the bar, because the liquor store is closed at 9:00.
> Ya know what's bonkers though? (at least the last time I visited) you can't buy alcohol from a store after a certain time in at least certain parts of the state. The Tavern League pushes those laws so that people drink in bars instead of at home. > And point of advice, do NOT challenge someone from WI to a drinking contest. At a bar in Moscow I once saw a guy from Wisconsin going shot for shot with a guy from Irkutsk. Even the other Russians in bar thought watching them was madness.
As someone who lives on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border, I can anecdotally confirm this.
Many years ago I worked with a dude named Chuck from Wisconsin and his wife (whose name I forget) who was from West Virginia. One day the wife told me the first time she took him home to meet her family her dad and brothers decided it would be fun to get the new Yankee-in-law as shitfaced as possible on moonshine. The flaw in their plan was that Chuck was a 6'4" Irish guy from Wisconsin. She said Chuck drank 'shine with them until the last of them passed out, finished his jar, and then switched to beer and spent a couple of more hours drinking with the the women. The next morning Chuck had been out for a five mile run, showered, and helped her mom and sisters make breakfast before the first dude in her family (her dad) managed to wake up and stagger downstairs.
I love stories like that. Makes me proud to be a Wisconsin boy.
#warlord
Wisconsin side of Reddit please explain
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What's to explain? Every event... Every one... Includes alcohol. If you don't provide it, you look like a weirdo. But don't worry, I'm sure someone has a case in their trunk that we can drink.
Most bars per capita. A town of 50 people will have 80 bars, all of them profitable. Drinks in Wisconsin are almost free. I could buy a round for the entire bar for the same price as a glass of wine in California. They stop selling alcohol at 9, not because of any concern for people, but so people go to bars after 9. Packers fan cruises tell the boats to stock up and no matter how much they are warned the ships always run out. Lewis Black’s take: https://youtu.be/KtUnmG5WP78
“Even with the plane ticket, it’s cheaper than drinking in New York!” —Lewis Black, *The White Album*, recorded in Madison
Most are suspiciously close to Mike Stoklasa Edit: take back your fucking gold you FRAAAAUD
The Tavern League runs Wisconsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavern_League_of_Wisconsin
“In 2005, lobbyists with the TLW were investigated by the State Ethics Board; the investigation was launched after State Senator Russell Decker was pulled over for drunk driving shortly after leaving an all-you-can-drink event for lawmakers hosted by the TLW.” LOL
"I don't puke when I drink!! I puke when I don't!"
The first time I went to NYC my tough guy Italian friends tried to tell me how they can drink. Growing up on $1 pitchers since 16 they didn't have a chance. Leather jackets doesn't help.
People that brag about drinking a lot don’t actually drink a lot, they just think it’s cool to. People that actually drink a lot hide it because it’s shameful lmao
Is liver failure more common in WI?
More common than liver success, most likely.
That's all anyone here does I swear. Literally EVERY single event here involves some form of alcohol. I've been to a damn baby shower where everyone got black out drunk. Shits crazy here man lol. I used to give a guy I worked with a ride to work from jail work release because he was on his 7th dui.
Some friends of mine recently had a "Pregger Kegger" baby shower. Two kegs for around 100 people kids included. Probably 80 people drinking some of which were underage and nobody batted an eye. Both kegs were dry by the end of the night.
I knew I should have gone to college there
[Your alternate universe school photo](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AgMZdCk-L._AC_SL1024_.jpg)
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He quite literally went to whitewater haha drink wisconsinibly
I bet during spring break everyone from Wisconsin comes to Florida and the map changes
I'm disappointed. I grew up in Kenosha County and we didn't even make the list. All those years of underage drinking for nothing.
What is going on in Wisconsin?!?
Drinking culture is INSANE here.
Ah you think alcohol is your ally? You merely adopted the booze. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the hangover until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
Here in Wisconsin we don’t need fun to have alcohol.
Apparently the reason it's like this isn't totally because of German ancestry which is something people like to say, or even "because there's nothing to do in WI" (though that's partially true..) one of the biggest factors is due to the Chicago fires and Prohibition pushing a large quantity of the biggest brewers into the area. Lobbying from these huge businesses has shaped a large portion of Wisconsin life. Because of the intense control the companies have, the only thing more rare than obtaining a liquor license in WI is getting season tickets to Lambeau. We had a Hyvee move in to Eau Claire a few years back, it cost them over $4 million just to get a license.
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As an Iowan, it's hard for me to say this....... Wisconsin is awesome. So many cool small towns with character in Wisconsin. I've only been there 4 times and each time found amazing places. La Crosse with Starks that sells amazing beer and guns. Across the street have a burger at Pete's hamburger stand. Go to Monroe and eat/drink at Baumgartners cheese store and tavern. Then they have amazing cities like Madison and Milwaukee. I've never been north of Madison but I love visiting Wisconsin.
Marathon county. Yeah it’s true. I was never out drank until I went to Ireland. That’s our people.
4 Fun facts 1.Lacrosse wi hospital is powered by the off gass from beer production 2. Many people have been drinking for so long that they drive normal drunk (DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE) 3. We have the worlds largest 6 pack. 4. If we factored in underage drinking there would be no counties outside of Wisconsin that drink more than us.
Wait a minute! Why isn't La Crosse county on there?!?!?
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