Is it just me, or is beer and wine definately NOT fine?!?

Question

I had beer and wine the other nite and felt extremely rough the day after... (admitably I was having beer and wine at the same time, but still...)

That phrase "beer and wine: fine, wine and beer: oh dear" doesn't seem to be right.

Your views please.

Answer 1

In German there is the same expression, but somebody told me it has nothing to do with actually mixing those, but has rather social implications. Beer was the drink for poor people and wine for the richer ones. So to change ones drinking habits from beer to wine would have indicated a change of revenue and social status. And vice versa.
I don't know if it's true, but it sound plausible. (Especially regarding that i have often drank both on several occasions withou having any repercussions.)

Answer 2

I completely agree, that must be the only way the author of the saying could make it rhyme - new years eve I had quite a bit of beer then thought it would be a good idea to have a wine drinking competition, I felt really really bad the next day and I dont ususally get hangovers!

Answer 3

It depends on what you are eating. If you have a meal, then some decent red wine (French, Chilean, South African) will do no harm, if followed by decent British bitter, from draught or the bottle (NOT CANS!Q!!) Drinking white wine, followed by beer, especially lager and american 'beer' will cause backside cyclones and general turgidity of the guts, not to mention el throbbo de la skull.

Answer 4

Are you talking about a hangover? Mixing drinks has nothing to do with how sick or hungover you get. That is a myth. If you felt sick the next day, you probably drank too much.

Even if you usually drink that much, you can still get sick for a variety of reasons. If you drank on an empty stomach, the alcohol will hit you harder. If you ate something bad, then the alcohol may have made it worse. If you did not have any water to drink that day, then you will more likely get sick. Or this is your body's way of saying that you shouldn't drink so much any more.

Mixing drinks does not have an effect on how sick you get.

Answer 5

Beer before wine makes you feel fine, wine before beer makes you feel queer.

Assuming you've had them in the right order it might be down to the beer.

Or the wine

Or alternatively just how much you had in total.

Or still, how old you are. It gets harder to deal with as you get older. God knows why, perhaps its to make things cheaper for your old age or something?

Answer 6

depends what you drank first, if you have the beer first then you should be alright to go on and have a couple of glasses of wine. but the other way around? ohhhhh no. happened to me the other night and i ended up calling in sick to work the next day!!!!. bllrrghh

Answer 7

The phrase I know is "beer before wine, you'll feel fine; wine before beer, you'll feel queer."

Anyway - too much of either and you'll feel poorly, because you're suffering from poisoning.

Answer 8

U just havrnt practised hard enough! Seriously though you shouldnt mix grape and grain and expect to be ok the next day.

Answer 9

Just drink one or the other not both at the same time.

Answer 10

beer and wine is thavmasios, ise poli kala,.