It costs more than real liquor. Tastes like crap.
What could possibly be the motivation?
It’s the finest of the flavors?
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.
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.
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.
Alcoholics will drink windex, listerine or anti-freeze if they are hard up enough.
Vanilla extract is the gourmet stuff...
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.