i find it bewildering how western society ****** all the fat out of certain edible products, like yoghurt, and by draining off the fat replaced it with excess sugar, to then suddenly announce that alcohol was a sugar, what the ****? alcohol (EtOH - Et is a chemical shortening of the micro-carbohydrate chain derived from ethane CH3-CH3 - ethanol) is the single most perfect calorie unit, even if impure due to dilution: a standard bottle of smirnoff ***** has a rubric: 50ml parallels 50kcal; i don't know where journalists got the idea that alcohol is in the sugar category - minding the fact that i don't use alcohol as a recreational party dumbing drug (liquid ketamine), instead using it for its medicinal qualities of sedation - i find arguments concerning it a bit of a red herring / far fetched - i hate drinking with people, i drink on my own, i find myself very conversational albeit slurring my speech after a drink with a library on my hunchback, but if the conversation turns sour and no one's laughing with me i sober up and alcohol doesn't recognise the soul, but becomes purely metabolic, and that *****.