When did alcohol become a luxury?

[Rupert_Baehr]

..,I think they need to get a grip.

 

Wasn' there a TV ad about that some years ago?

 

Sicilian peqasant sitting at a table: "Maria, presa mia Limone?" (I don't speak Italian.) Maria (an industrial-sized lady) picks up a lemon and squeezes it into his glass ...

 

I've got a juice extractor - much easier.

[Xranus]

If you can't live without alcohol, drugs or cigarettes then you must have a real mental problem.

[bigjoker]

its not about how cheap something is

 

its not essential....so its a luxary

 

So doe's that mean toilet rolls (taxed @ 20% vat)are not essensial but a luxary, ah well back to the newspaper squares.

[Rupert_Baehr]

Or toilet brushes.

 

I think I'll keep buying paper.

[*_ash_*]

I reckon you're right. But go back a bit further and gin was the ruin of many families. Hogarth's 'Gin Lane' had quite an effect the first time I saw it, nowadays it looks like a Friday night in the less salubrious parts of town.

 

I would have thought the gin mare was after the beer 'goodtimes' Either way, it shows the good/evil in the drink

 

My OH likes a couple of beers or a glass of wine, so we always have alcohol in the house, but we see it as a luxury rather than a necessity. We can remember when we couldn't afford it, in the days when supporting our children and paying a mortgage at silly interest rates took most of our income. If things became tight again, then alcohol would be the first things we'd cut down on.

 

... unless of course Yorkshire Water lower their standards, then you could be excused for keeping the odd tipple