Kylie Jenner has a new tequila brand. The blanco is gross but the añejo is oddly tasty.
Oh, and the state is mandating that we get (discretionary) paid time off, but nobody’s sure how that’s going to work in an industry where most compensation doesn’t come from base wages.
Fun fact: the vast majority of the millions of alcoholic products in the US are generated from the same few corps’ distillates. To put it simply: “distillate” (the intended end-result of distillation) is not a saleable “product” in the US without first being “proofed”, which in turn is little more than adding a certain volume of water to said distillate. The simple act of which satisfies the requirements for using the term “produced”, as the distillate is now a product that can be marketed and sold.
In no uncertain terms, “produced and bottled in [place]” 99.99% of the time means “water added to, and bottles filled in [place]”, and the entire implication that it was crafted locally, let alone in the same time zone, is a complete and baldfaced lie.
tl;dr: your favorite craft cocktails are actually Jim Beam, etc., and the only difference is what you tell yourself it is. 🤷🏼♂️
Food & Bev:
Kylie Jenner has a new tequila brand. The blanco is gross but the añejo is oddly tasty.
Oh, and the state is mandating that we get (discretionary) paid time off, but nobody’s sure how that’s going to work in an industry where most compensation doesn’t come from base wages.
Fun fact: the vast majority of the millions of alcoholic products in the US are generated from the same few corps’ distillates. To put it simply: “distillate” (the intended end-result of distillation) is not a saleable “product” in the US without first being “proofed”, which in turn is little more than adding a certain volume of water to said distillate. The simple act of which satisfies the requirements for using the term “produced”, as the distillate is now a product that can be marketed and sold.
In no uncertain terms, “produced and bottled in [place]” 99.99% of the time means “water added to, and bottles filled in [place]”, and the entire implication that it was crafted locally, let alone in the same time zone, is a complete and baldfaced lie.
tl;dr: your favorite craft cocktails are actually Jim Beam, etc., and the only difference is what you tell yourself it is. 🤷🏼♂️
What could try are you in? Don’t you have any paid time off at all at the moment?
The US, in Illinois. Currently we only have sick pay, and it’s at the base rate of pay, which is sub-minimum.