Why are you Brits such DRUNKS?

'Why are you Brits such DRUNKS?', asks one American writer By Sarah Lyall She’s got used to the endless cups of tea. But after settling here, American writer Sarah Lyall is still baffled by Britain’s need for booze. Your men, she says, can’t even woo a lady without one sherbert too many... What is it about British people and alcohol? Even after 13 years of living here with my English husband (and our two English children), I have not been able to figure it out. I had early exposure to the issue, and I'm afraid I responded in a typically American way: I was shocked. I was shocked, for instance, to come downstairs after our first weekday dinner party to discover that the dinner table was covered with twice as many empty wine bottles as there had been guests. Worse, I was exhausted and traumatised by the fact that no one had... [read full story]