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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No empty Sterno cans? Shoe polish? She’s a rookie.
That’s an expensive way to get drunk.
“You mean vanilla is legal? Damn, I was just trying to get rid of the evidence.”
NY State Department of Corrections banned anything that had even a small percentage of alcohol in it, like certain mouthwashes, toothpastes, shampoos, etc. The convicts would also try to make alcohol out of anything. They'd throw potatoes, oranges, rice, bread, and God knows what else, into a large pail, cover it with plastic, and let it ferment for however long was needed. When I worked at Auburn prison, the bakery had to keep the yeast locked up, and keep a running inventory, because the inmate workers would use it to make booze. Somehow they'd still be able to break off a little of whatever they were issued, take it back to the cell block, and after they had enough, they'd use it to make booze. And it looked, and smelled horrible, just like someone had upchucked after they'd been drinking all night. I had a good nose, and if it was in someone's cell, I could smell it the minute I walked on the gallery.
Just found this site that lists all the products that have alcohol in them:
She needs to try Terpin Hydrate. Made from Turpentine and Codeine.
She’ll never go back to vanilla extract, again! ;)
I've seen alcoholics get drunk from mouthwash, cologne, and hand sanitizer. Cooking wine tends to be loaded with sodium to discourage recreational consumption.
Why? Blue laws are one reason. You can buy vanilla extract 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
And it's not crazy expensive these days. Walmart sells a 16 ounce bottle for $34.
Back in HS, teens would keep extract in their lockers thinking they’d get in trouble if they had booze in their lockers.
Can’t imagine what this grown woman’s reasoning might be.
Jägermeister spice is cheaper, and 70 proof. I’m sure it tastes better.
“During prohibition vanilla extra was very popular.”
In Oklahoma, Prohibition only fully ended in 1959 so there were still plenty of stories about such workarounds by alcoholics when I arrived in 1972. As was probably like your hometown, this was a small town with plenty of known local characters who had used vanilla extract. The small drive-in burger joint where I worked still had nickel soft drinks and a special was a “Dobby” Coke, a short-filled nickel cup of Coke to allow room for the alky to top it off with his desired concoction. I got an education on a different slice of life, for sure.
Did they really need to do research on medicaldaily . com to determine that ethanol has the same effect whether it is in ‘liquor’ or vanilla extract?
Alcoholics will drink windex, listerine or anti-freeze if they are hard up enough.
Vanilla extract is the gourmet stuff...
There’s always the legendary shoe polish and bread if one can’t stand the taste of Vanilla.
In case you were wondering whatever happened to Michael Bolton.
$10 bucks for an ounce? Wow! Here in the Willamette valley I was paying around $5.
Then one day at Costco started selling good vanilla beans for $13. You’d get two tubes each containing five large beans. I stocked up as everyone else I’d see selling them would have two tiny dried up beans for roughly the same price.
I started making my own vanilla by buying a fifth of vodka, cutting a bean or two into pieces and putting them in. Set it on the counter and give it a shake a couple times a week. In three months it’s perfect. I can even reuse the beans for a second round.
I also make orange, lemon and coffee extract. I plan on making mint and coconut!
They will drink Aqua Velva too.
I like to get a 1.75 bottle of Bacardi Silver and put 5 Tahitian vanilla beans (a little expensive) in the bottle, split the beans with a sharp knife first, and put it in the pantry for about 6 months, leave it alone. 6 months hence you’ll have the best vanilla infused rum you’ve ever tasted, great with coke a cola. Also, you can reuse the beans until they are spent, just top off the bottle from time to time.
Alcoholism makes you completely insane. Your brain becomes pickled like a cucumber in vinegar.
Also, consider, if an alcoholic is broke, they will steal. Alcohol itself is often well-monitored, but vanilla extract, mouthwash, and the like... aren't.
She must have a lot!
There are only 2 of us, kids are grown and are giving us more grands and G. grands. Scattered in different states. I don’t do much baking, I’m not the sweets eater, hubby is. Basic meals mostly. Easier to buy him a box of cookies or bag of candy.
True, but you don’t have to be 21 to buy vanilla extract
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