• sethboy66@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    ME: A 12 yo Navy brat living in Italy, on vacation at a Palermo resort.

    The waiter (addressing a table of 10-13 yo kids): I can take your order while drinks are self serve; soft drinks are over there, wine and whisky to the left of that.

    ME: Wine it is then.

    I don’t know what the legal drinking age was at the time (mid-2000s), but if it was above 13 it certainly wasn’t really enforced.

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if Italy has a drinking age. The culture around wine just doesn’t make it a taboo. Kids drink watered down wine like it’s juice for dinner.

      • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        no drinking age but you gotta be 18 to buy it. Although Ibought alcohol from Indian stores without being 18