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strider_mt2k
01/24/09

In reply to Car Breathalyzer Mistakes Ice Cream for Alcohol, Doesn't Let Man Drive Home
Seriously.

Those things are a bigger buzzkill than Buzz Killington.
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WheatKing
01/23/09

In reply to Car Breathalyzer Mistakes Ice Cream for Alcohol, Doesn't Let Man Drive Home
mmm scotch... speaking of vanilla.. I've got a hankering to go visit my friend johnny walker for some black label lovin.
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StutiCebriones
01/23/09

In reply to Car Breathalyzer Mistakes Ice Cream for Alcohol, Doesn't Let Man Drive Home
Vanilla extract is, per FDA regulations, at least 70 proof; I can't find the Australian regulations but they probably don't differ by much since the U.S. is such a large market for manufacturers. Anyway: Chances that any particular flavor of ice cream contains vanilla are pretty high. If you've just had two bites, you've got vanilla in your mouth, not your bloodstream, where the breathalyzer's going to get whatever was in those bites full blast.

This isn't a breathalyzer failure; it's a breathalyzer hack, and a pretty clever one.
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rockboy04
01/23/09

@StutiCebriones: Back in high school, we did a chemistry lab where we made ice cream. I added a bit too much vanilla to mine and my next class was band...I wound up a bit buzzed.
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dfn_doe
01/24/09

@rockboy04: Do you weigh 10 lbs. or something? Even if it were twice the fda minimum percentage of alcohol a a "bit" wouldn't be enough to get any type of impairment in a normal sized person with an average metabolic rate. Vanilla extract is something which would be used at a ratio of something like 1tsp per quart of icecream. So if you pigged out and ate a whole quart of icecream you'd have to use 4-5 times the double proof extract that the recipe called for before to have consumed the equivalent of a single shot of common 80proof liquor.

I suspect your imagination in highschool was stronger than the alcohol in the icecream.
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A strolling player
01/24/09

@dfn_doe: It's high school chemistry lab. Not the most precise laboratory environment. Say the recipe called for a teaspoon, and instead included was about half a bottle? So, 10 or 15 times the
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A strolling player
01/24/09

@A strolling player can't find Waldo: [ugh] recommended amount, and eating the whole pint (which is feasible), that's a good shot and a half, which is enough for a buzz in a non- or occasional drinker.
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1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
01/23/09

In reply to Car Breathalyzer Mistakes Ice Cream for Alcohol, Doesn't Let Man Drive Home
If he was in the U.S. this would probably be a violation of his parole because the ice cream had liquor in it.

I can't believe he even said anything let alone his 'problem' going so far in court and him winning. Crazy
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Luke Ramsden
01/23/09

@1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons:

I'm in Australia eating one now, no sign of alcohol in the ingredients or the wrapper anywhere..

We don't really get on the whole 'parole' thing here either.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
01/24/09

@Luke Ramsden: "We don't really get on the whole 'parole' thing here either."

I can't help but find that comment amusing considering that Australia started out as a penal colony....
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qbrad
01/23/09

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No Wonder I was so addicted to Bubble o Bill when I was a kid. Now I'm wondering what happens after a Fat Frog!
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