Talk:Drunk Tank/@comment-31077845-20170210024014/@comment-24101790-20170210032530

"Although the thing is that honestly, alcohol being in all our agriculture wouldn't be THAT difficult to avoid." It isn't in our agriculture, in this scenario it would be in our soil, and as anyone who's ever planted in poor soil (myself included), this is quite difficult to avoid.

As for the suggestion of "...spread it out on a cookie sheet, then heat it to [insert evaporation point of alcohol here, I forget] and bam, alcohol free food," you do have to take into consideration of nutrients and caloric intake. Sure we could cook all food to the point of denaturing all viruses/enzymes/bacteria, but we do lose a lot of nutritional value at a certain point. We could do that with all food for maximum safety, but we would severely limit flavor and quality of the meal by doing this.) Take for example, boiling water fished from a scummy pond. At a certain point, purifying the water will result in boiling it down to the point of nothingness to remove the impurities. In an (unlikely) scenario that everything is toxic, this might be problematic.

"Oh, and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is slightly misrepresented. It's just thiamine deficiency, and really only occurs in severely malnourished late stage alcoholics" Yeah, I agree that most cases would be very benign, but I am trying to build a story around extensive exposure and passage of time. I can't necessarily come up with a system for how people will react so I just articulated them in a few groups of how I'd think some would respond over a period of time. Given that a majority of the stories seem to focus on the horrors of rape/questionable sexual encounters (unfortunately a product I've seen given my sad time binge-drinking), it is a horror that is still fresh in my mind and is something I can't seem to ignore/let go of.