Phrase 'eating is cheating'

It soaks up alcohol - making you less drunk.

Thanks

I saw the 'Eating isn't cheating' Drinkaware posters today. I can honestly say in 15 years of doing bar work I have never heard someone say 'Eating is cheating' It is most odd.

I remember people saying it when I was a student.

I've heard this. Thought it wa s a welsh thing. The gist - don't eat, as it means it takes you longer to get smashed.

I say it all the time thought most people did!

how are these posters stopping people drinking then?

I'm really surprised people haven't heard this phrase. I grew up in N. Yorkshire where it was used, I went to uni in West London where it was used and I lived in Hertfordshire for a while and I heard it there too. Maybe I get drawn to the wrong circles!

I guess the idea of the campaign is that you have a meal before you go out or when you're out to stop you getting hideously drunk and risking injury to yourself and others. I think it fits in well with the whole drink responsibly idea.

Basically it was a picture of food (something in bread - I think it was a baguette but may have been a kebab/burger) and then 'isn't cheating' underneath. The food had a brand name on it though which I found distracting and I thought it was a food adverts until I saw the tiny drinkaware logo.

Ah, there you go. Has just taken me 10 mins to post that last message though so no wonder no one has posted on OT all day!

I'm thinking the message is a little too small to take any effect

Wasn't this originally the slogan on a pro-ana website ?

I've never heard it in reference to going out drinking though.

I thought that too P&P and have also never heard it in reference to alcohol.

I'm actually a little worried about this ad - it is a common myth that eating somehow sobers you up...

Yes, food will take you longer to metabolise the alcohol, due to the fact that it'll sit on the food in your stomach, and so take longer to even enter your bloodstream.

The problem comes when it comes to driving - again, the general consensus is that if you eat something it will "sober you up" and make you safer to drive - THIS IS NOT TRUE! it will in fact mean that you could be over the drink driving limit for LONGER! a large meal with a bottle of wine, could see you still over the limit the next morning.

If not driving, then yes, some food may make you FEEL better - and perhaps the full effects of the alcohol wouldn't take hold whilst you're still out and about.

Mrs SC

Although this makes me feel really really old, friends used this before anyone really had the internet - early 1990s.

In relation to drinking Rache, or eating disorders?

Re drinking. skip your dinner then go out drinking, and you'll get pissed more quickly

Ahhh, ok. Thanks Rache

The thing is - we always used to eat before we went out to "line the stomach" so that you DIDN'T get drunk on 1 drink and look like a lightweight! I know some people swore by a glass of milk to achieve this lining effect!?!...