http://www.policymic.com/...hat-can-out-drink-america

Well, I'm not that surprised at all.

Wikipedia uses a WHO database as a source..

http://en.wikipedia.org/...es_by_alcohol_consumption

If I counted right the USA comes out 57th. If it's not a reputable website and you're conveniently mentioned then you should expect it to be a case of picking and choosing data to make suitable headlines

Every Ex Russian, and German country should beable to out drink americans.. also gotta take into account the Quality of the Quantity they are drinking.

all the eastern block countries made sense but i was suprised to not see ireland up there

probly just missed the cut off of the list.. I'm sure there are atleast 20 more :-P

I'm actually surprised the US is this high, nearly half the population south of the Mason Dixon line takes a view of drinking only slightly less draconian than the Taliban.

fluff a bunch of jesus freaks, I'ma going to go pour me another crown and ginger ale.

i think archaic made the point better than anybody ever could.


your drink save the gingered ale, your aled ginger.

the rest of us drink our liqour from the bottle, and are kind of maybe a little pissed off its cut with sixty percent water to begin with. if we wanted to drink water, we'd walk to a fluffing well. bourbon is good, i suppose, but old fashioned's are for elderly grandmothers retired to flo-ri-da

men drink like men, why mooslims are girly women (archaic brought religion into it, not me)

(he says while drinking appletons rhum jamaica rum from the bottle)

Kiwis are renound drinkers, we can definitely out drink most countries :P

Germany, Australia and many more can and should be on that list

That may be. Interesting fact though: The average person in 19th century US drank about 10X as much as now (Canada too). A lot of it had to do with the lack of availability/affordability of safe drinking water. There were people who would literally be drunk almost all the time. Prohibition eventually evolved in reaction to this.

im not surprised by that list at all

beer sux! Now get it with the hard stuff!
whiskey, bourbon, rum (prefer it aged a yr or more),voka or however its spelled, gin,tequila and the green genie...Not in any order

As a Canadian, this is laughable.

PHL at number 3. Well they are right, a high school student can easily buy beer, gins, rhum at any convenience (sari-sari) store there

i can outdrink most countries

nothing special here.

They forgot Romania again :D

The US also has Utah to drag our ranking down.

US has Americans to drag their ranking down

you bring the drinks, and I will do my best to prove you wrong, if I fail we all still have a good time!

Utah has one of the best underground cultures in the country!

http://www.ted.com/...good_ideas_come_from.html