r/mildlyinteresting • u/Flederschnauz • 2d ago
City administration of my town opened the door next to the place people like to have a drink
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u/Trollercoaster101 2d ago
The weird part is that all that red reminds me of an open pomegranate.
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u/Flederschnauz 2d ago
It is bitter herbs schnaps , like Ramazzotti but way worse. Taste is not that great. But 4 shots for 1€ 💪
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u/Mr_uhlus 2d ago
i see some Jägermeister and somr Eristoff bottles in there, i dont know what the green bottles with the red labels are
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u/Rob_Haggis 2d ago
Possibly Underberg - another awful tasting herbal alcoholic drink. Tastes like cloves and cough syrup had a baby neither of them wanted.
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u/Larkfin 2d ago
I totally understand it's an acquired taste but I freaking love it. I buy it by the case. I collect the caps and have redeemed them for the baseball cap and the belt already.
That said, I don't see Underberg in this picture.
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u/mkymooooo 2d ago
Me and my partner have an Underberg after dinner each night when we take our dog out for his walk!
If not that, then it's Appenzeller Alpenbitter 😄
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u/Sun-Anvil 2d ago
I always liked an Underberg after dinner when I was in Germany a lot for work. It worked well with my digestion.
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u/byebybuy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Those look way too small to be 4 shots...
Edit: just read elsewhere that you get four of these shooters for 1€. That makes way more sense.
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u/the_poopsmith1 2d ago
Definitely one guy
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u/Beaglegod 2d ago
Yeah, this is from a drunk hiding his habit.
My old boss did this with little vodka bottles. Until they found the stash and fired him.
It looked exactly like this.
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u/omgtinano 2d ago
That’s sad. Did they suspect he was an alcoholic before they found the stash? I worked with a client for a few months and couldn’t really tell he was drunk, just thought he was a little eccentric. Until he straight up told me he was three sheets to the wind.
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u/Beaglegod 2d ago
I can say that I had no idea and I worked with him for 4 years, between two jobs. He hired me at a second place after we worked together at the first.
I had no clue.
He was a total prick but he always seemed to favor me for some reason, so maybe I just looked past it as I was always getting his approval and others weren’t. I was also pretty young.
I was a computer technician and he was the head of sales at a little white label computer build shop. He was a hell of a salesman.
So I assume the owners maybe were onto him a bit at some point. But nobody else was. And it was shocking to see all the bottles, for sure.
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u/FartFromALesserGod 2d ago
Used to work as a mechanic, we had one of those. He'd come in all sunshine and roses, a few hours later he's starting to look like hell, disappears for a break and comes back all chipper again.
I think he did a better job of hiding it at first, but then after his first winter the snow melted and the hillside exposed a shit ton of empties
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u/Doogiemon 2d ago
Never thought to go in on a Saturday for a minute because he foegot something and throw them out.
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u/rootbeerfloatgang 2d ago
It would look like a hospital sharps container if that were in my city lmao
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u/Misdirected_Colors 2d ago
It looks like my house in Bravil from Oblivion. If use that house for all my potionmaking and drop all the junk I wouldn't use. Eventually would just crash my game when I walked in lol
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u/Larkfin 2d ago
Baltimore?
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u/I_ate_a_milkshake 2d ago
Any major American city?
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u/SpareWire 2d ago
Nah most states favor good ol' meth last I checked.
Looks like needles are more of a yankee thing.
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u/lasagnasmash 2d ago
What are those little bottles with the red label? Never seen that brand before
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u/Flederschnauz 2d ago
Probably Hubertustropfen xD
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u/barbaq24 2d ago
I also see a few bottles of Jägermeister. Is Hubertustropfen similar to Jägermeister?
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u/Flederschnauz 2d ago
Yes, but it is way worse. You got 4x0,02l bottles for 1€ ( probably bit more expensive now ) some years go🍻
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u/Flederschnauz 2d ago
Btw Hubertus ist the patron saint for the hunters and Tropfen means drop. On the label is a big strong buck.
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u/banned-4-using_slurs 2d ago
0,02l
Please tell me you normally use ml instead. It's like saying you have 0.02 dollars instead of 2 cents.
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u/GCU_Problem_Child 2d ago
This is what it's like when I open my mailbox the day after the Alcoholic Pride Parade (KKKarnival) rolls into my little village. We have 15000-25000 people show up every year, in a village that has around 3000 residents, who then literally shit in the street, and deposit vomit and these tiny bottles into every nook and cranny they can find.
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u/justanawkwardguy 2d ago
Surely the village doesn’t ok the gathering, right? Why not call police to disperse them then? Allowing that to happen year after year is a really bad look for the village
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u/Informal_Truck_1574 2d ago
3000 person villiages rarely have cops, much less a police force able to dissuade 20 thousand people. I imagine they just enjoy the economic boost and grit their teeth
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u/justanawkwardguy 2d ago
Is it an economic boost? At least in my area, the type of people to go to one of those “parades” would bring their own food/alcohol, and a lot camp out rather than stay in hotels. Add to that that the village has to pay to clean up after them, and having them come turns away other potential tourists.
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u/GCU_Problem_Child 1d ago
It is NOT a boost. No. Only one business benefits from it, and that's the business owned by the guy who owns the large local pub/restaurant/hotel, as well as the bottle shop next door. It COSTS the rest of us to clean up all the shit these cunts throw in our gardens, which is why there was so much pushback this year. We had 4 arrests this year, but according to the cops that was because there were only 2 cops on duty here, and the private security the event host hired don't do anything except break up fights.
They don't care about stopping property damage or anything. It has been tolerated because "ItS TrAdItIOn" according to the handful of fuckwits who live so far out on the edge of the village that it doesn't affect them, but thankfully this years one actually caused property damage to them, so now they are opposing its continuation.
EDIT: You need to be aware that these things take place on a Sunday. While normal parts of the world have Sunday trading, down here in Bavaria there's no such thing. The only place open here on the day of Karnival is the event hosts pub. Nothing more. Hence why he makes so much fucking money.
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u/finicky88 2d ago
This stuff is protected because it's a traditional thing. I personally don't partake in it, but most people do so it stays.
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u/MrWilsonWalluby 2d ago
a 3000 person village is not gonna turn away 25,000 drunks spending money, they probably make more money during that tourist rush then the rest of the year combined.
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u/GCU_Problem_Child 2d ago
The village doesn't make the money. The asshole that organizes the thing does. Everyone ends up at his pub at the end of the day. The rest of us are left to clean up for ourselves. My wife and I have to leave every year now, because I got tired of literally, physically dragging drunk people out of my garden, which they wanted to use as a toilet to shit in. I got assaulted by one a few years ago. So, rather than risk my safety, or run the risk of doing something I might regret, we go away for a few days. With any luck this years was the last, because the old piece of shit organizer is retiring.
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u/GCU_Problem_Child 2d ago
The guy that organizes it is basically a council elder type thing. Head of the local business council and whatnot. He supposedly pays for the clean-up, but things have been getting so bad that he's likely retiring this year, and there won't be any more nonsense. As for cops, lol. This is rural Bavaria. We see the cops MAYBE once every two days, and that's as they pass through at 80km in their car.
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u/trytorememberthisone 2d ago
I’m having trouble googling this, but I’m interested. Could you drop a link?
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u/LanceFree 2d ago
Those little bottles seem weird to me. When I was still drinking, I bought those one time and I needed two to make a satisfying drink. Certainly a pint or 1/2 pint would be a better deal?
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u/GCU_Problem_Child 2d ago
These are bought by teenagers who need to be able to hide them from seemingly the one or two adults who aren't dead set on turning their kids into alcoholics just like them.
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u/Flamin_Jesus 2d ago
Many, if not most, of the people buying these are end-stage alcoholics whose livers are so shot they actually get drunk from that amount, and who either can't afford something bigger/better (think homeless people) or who need something they can drink and discard on their way to or from work (because everyone around them is fully aware of their alcoholism and would try to interfere or at least lecture them if they saw them drinking).
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u/AgileArtichokes 2d ago
When you get to the point of using these shooters regularly it isn’t about getting drunk as much as it is about staving off the detox of not having alcohol in your system.
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u/byebybuy 2d ago
In addition to the other two comments, some alcoholics will delude themselves into thinking their habit is under control because they're only buying a couple shots at a time.
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u/abshidfarsi 2d ago
Thats lot of soy sauce.
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u/lego_not_legos 2d ago
It's clearly washyoursister sauce and Jaeger.
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u/Taniwha_NZ 2d ago
Weirdly, the name 'washyoursister' is actually pronounced 'wooster'. At least half the letters are silent.
English must have the greatest ratio of name-length to actually-pronounced-length in the world.
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u/DuncanIdaBro 2d ago
Reminds me of Revachol...
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u/graubenn 2d ago
“BRATTAN! Get to digging because at least one of those bottles will have some left!”
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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 2d ago
respect to the one guy getting plastered on Jaeger in a social setting
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u/F-Lambda 2d ago
I'm having difficulty understanding the title, what do you mean "opened the door"?
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u/Traditional-Storm-62 2d ago
what are the odds its all one person doing this habitually for years?
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u/No_Research_3628 2d ago
Most of those bottles are from some extremely cheap alcohol, so might not be just 1 but probably from a few local drunks who hang out at the same spot
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u/MeowsAllieCat 2d ago
The meter (or whatever it is on the left) looks like a guy who has seen some shit.
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u/Briglin 2d ago
Had the same with a stairwell in a building we were renovation that had remained empty for 20 years. Pigeons had got in at the third floor and the ground floor of the stairwell was knee high in pigeon guano and dead pigeons and crawling with maggots. Close door walk away ....someone else's problem
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u/JoLudvS 2d ago
Reminds me of the movie "Leningrad Cowboys go to America". Just cans instead. (https://youtu.be/kARflvpvzUo?feature=shared)
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u/snajk138 2d ago
I remember visiting Germany as a teenager and seeing those small Jägermeister bottles like everywhere, in bushes and along the streets. I didn't get it, beer was cheap everywhere and the drinking age way lower than here in Sweden, so why would anyone drink that?
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u/Sonyapop 1d ago
As someone with Autism, your wording of the title made me irrationally upset
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u/_barbarossa 2d ago
So what kind of alcohol is this? I see some jaggermeister and what looks like English Worcestershire lol
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u/Longshot_45 2d ago
It's like you found a squirrels acorn stash. But instead of acorns it's alcohol bottles.
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u/CaptParadox 2d ago
Honestly, this is probably an alleyway to a bar, yeah there are bitters like people point out. But there's also liquor bottles like jagermeister and others in the pile.
This is not from someone walking by and just yeeting it every day over a fence. As someone who has worked in and around bars for years, I've seen worse.
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u/Zakal74 2d ago
The ratio of people that put the cap back on after is actually really impressive to me.