Posted on 01/28/2019 9:33:39 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
A 50-year-old Connecticut woman was arrested Wednesday for driving under the influence of vanilla extract.
Police were called at 4:45 p.m. after a person reported a car stopped at a New Canaan intersection with the driver sitting behind the wheel with her eyes closed.
Police identified the driver as Stefanie Warner-Grise.
“Upon speaking with Warner-Grise, officers detected an odor of vanilla coming from her breath, her speech was slurred and she was unable to answer basic questions,” according to the arrest report.
“In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.”
After she failed sobriety tests, she was taken into custody. She refused to take a blood alcohol test and was held on $250 bond.
According to Food and Drug Administration regulations, pure vanilla extract must contain 35 percent alcohol, which makes it 70 proof.
According to medicaldaily.com, in most cases, the alcohol in vanilla is burned away in the cooking process, but when ingested directly, the effects are similar to drinking hard liquor.
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Vanilla Wafer breath?.......................
Split open vanilla beans and soak in gin or vodka for a few weeks.
VOILA...vanilla extract.
It costs more than real liquor. Tastes like crap.
What could possibly be the motivation?
Holy s—t, I didn’t even know this! You can get tanked off of vanilla??? I’m off to the grocery store! Gonna....uhm... bake me some cookies!!!
It’s the finest of the flavors?
The real vanilla extract is quite expensive. There are far, far cheaper ways to get drunk (Natural Ice comes to mind).
It costs more than real liquor. Tastes like crap.
What could possibly be the motivation?
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Was gonna say the same thing.
Vanilla extract is strongly concentrated. Not pleasant.
...and the little sample bottles of liquor have got to be cheaper.
““In addition, several bottles of pure vanilla extract were located inside the vehicle.””
That is one expensive drunk.
Vanilla bourbon french toast is one of my weaknesses.
You can also get drunk if you consume enough Angostura Bitters.
But I don’t recommend it.
My stomach is doing flip-flops right now.
6 pack of cheap beer would have done it. Good Vanilla Extract can be near $25 for 1 oz. Even the Store brand comes in around $10+ for 1 oz.
And no baking cookies or a cake with it won’t even give you a buzz. Most recipes call for 1-2 TSP at most. Cooking negates alcohol.
That’s the old school way!
During prohibition vanilla extra was very popular.
They tore down an old bank building in my home town. When they knocked the walls down which were around the presidents office, they found many hundreds of empty vanilla bottles. The banker could afford it!!
Easier to pocket a few bottles of extract from the baking aisle than grab a pint from the liquor aisle where all the cameras are focused.
It costs more than real liquor. Tastes like crap.
What could possibly be the motivation?
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Maybe she shoplifted them.
She could have had that on hand to try and disguise the smell of the real liquor she was drinking.
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