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Originally Posted by lancsdave

I would accept that as a valid point if somebody comes back with a list of products that you can consume in the time it takes to drink a pint and still contain the same level of alchohol

There has to be a line drawn somewhere to take into account inadvertent consumption of alcohol in normal everyday products and medicines. Someone mentioned earlier about one brand of mints, I think it was, that can fool the breathaliser into thinking that the fumes are alcoholic. What about a domestic sherry trifle? People cook with wine and brandy as well as beer. There is no label to read on those.

So levelling it at around one pint’s worth of normal beer does just that. It isn’t about how much can be consumed in the same time that it takes to swallow a pint of beer. It’s about the alcoholic content of a normal pint of beer. I have seen people take two hours over one pint. I’ve even done it myself on occasions.