co_bymusic

Yes it's definitely healthier. But now that you mention Schnaps...

Sometimes, just sometimes I feel a little sad about traditions getting lost. Where I'm from it has something of "taking care of guests", that you hardly can replace without alcohol.

For example "Christbaumloben", a tradition we practiced. It means going from house to house at Christmas, telling people that their tree looks nice and getting Schnaps. It's just a nice way of connecting to people you often don't see anymore, maybe because you moved away from home or so. Impossible when nobody's drinking.

We need new traditions that don't require drinking.

Good point. Funny how legalization of one drug can make the dangers of another more obvious to society.

Yeah I got the same impression, Germany here as well.

And I wasn't sure if it's just a thing in my friends group and if it has to do with a certain age and not being able to drink because of pregnancy and having kids that normalized it. That's why I asked.

I heard of the spooky two days hangover by some my age, but never experienced it myself. Still I lost motivation for drinking, somehow.

I once even made the tofu myself. That was a mess. But an interesting experiment. 😅