Blau trinkt am wenigsten, Rot am meisten
Von IllustriousDudeIDK
Blau trinkt am wenigsten, Rot am meisten
Von IllustriousDudeIDK
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Here’s HD for mobile: [https://imgur.com/a/ANvJ6RO](https://imgur.com/a/ANvJ6RO)
Why is it so much higher in the north? Also cool how you can see alcohol consumption being higher in what seem like bigger cities, outside the north.
I looked up maps of wine, cider and beer consumption in the same period, and the blue area is the wine area, while the read is mostly cider and also beer. Probably the availability of apples (everyone can grow them in their back garden) made drinking more widespread in those areas, whereas wine was produced by wineries only, so per capita consumption was lower?
My theory: the dark blue areas are where distilled spirits are popular. Where is Cognac? The map is by litres. Distilled-> small volume, light blue or light red -> wine areas, medium volume for the same alcohol content, dark red -> beer and cider, need a high volume to get buzzed.
Maybe that or the census taker only asked certain people in certain areas.
Note this is „L’Alcool Pur“, which I think means it’s a measure of alcohol content, not total volume of beverage. Ie: it’s not just that they drink more liquid in the beer and cider north because it’s lower alcohol by volume than the wine in the south. This data is normalized.
Closer to England, more you drink. Adds up
I don’t think this can be accurate at all. Are there really regions in France in the 19th century where people drink next to no alcohol almost directly next to regions that drink at least 10x the amount?
It says official amount per capita. Are the blue areas just drinking a lot they made themselves? So unofficially?