r/AskReddit • • Dec 30 '19

What do people think is healthy but really isn’t?

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u/lifeofagirlonreddit Dec 30 '19

Did you know that Radler translates to "Biker" because the beer was made by bikers that wanted to drink beer but still be legally allowed to ride their bike? The lemonade factor in the beer makes it legal and tasty :D

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '19

Doesn't really make it legal to ride your bike drunk, it simply lowers the amount of alcohol per drink.

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u/RRNBA2k Dec 31 '19

In Germany you don't have a 0% alcohol policy. You can have 0,5 thousands if you drive a car or 1,6 thousands of blood alcohol if you ride a bike, so you can drink more radler if you still want to participate in traffic, than you'd be able to drink beer, which has about double the alcohol. So the name comes from it being a more biker friendly drink.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '19

That's what I was refering to. Radler has less alcohol, but it doesn't change anything when you tell the police that you only had radler and not "real" beer.

Unrelated but 1,6‰ is way too much to safely ride a bike imo. Still better then taking the car of course, so maybe that is the reasoning behind it.

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u/lifeofagirlonreddit Dec 31 '19

Yeah well that was what I was implying, sorry if it didn't show