{"id":798,"date":"2006-11-09T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/how-to-drink-like-a-russian\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:25:59","slug":"how-to-drink-like-a-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/how-to-drink-like-a-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Drink Like a Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"

A neat post on a blog called How to in 7 Seconds<\/a> about how to drink vodka without getting drunk. I can’t tell you if this works or not since it all sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, but it still may be helpful to some. Some salient points:<\/p>\n

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One hour before the party<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Eat a couple of boiled potatoes.<\/p>\n

2. Drinks one or two raw eggs.<\/p>\n

3. Drink one or two table-spoons of olive oil. Sunflower oil will also do.<\/p>\n

Thus it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guaranteed that at the Russian party you will stay sober for at least one bottle of vodka. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not kidding. Raw eggs are the most important part of Russian pre-party preparations.<\/p>\n

At the party<\/span><\/p>\n

1. If you start drinking vodka \u00e2\u20ac\u201c drink only vodka. No beer or wine. No water or juice. Carbonated drinks are taboo.<\/p>\n

2. Drink vodka only in shots. Never sip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yikes, that’s probably partying a bit harder than I would be comfortable with. The main point of eating a lot of food while drinking is certainly a good idea no matter what you are having though. The Russian party etiquette parts are really interesting though, and it would be a huge amount of fun to have a traditional Russian party night chez Vallentyne’s sometime. Anybody in for some straight vodka shots?<\/p>\n

Original link<\/a><\/p>\n

Hm, this also reminds me of a recent post<\/a> about Russians and vodka…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A neat post on a blog called How to in 7 Seconds about how to drink vodka without getting drunk. I can’t tell you if this works or not since it all sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}