> I've heard that the golg flakes in Goldschlager are real gold and
> that they tear the lining in your stomach. That's why it gets you so
> drunk, does any one know if this is true?
I don't know...... but, IF the gold flaks do abbrade the stomach lining
(which I tend to doubt, alcohol increases the excretion of mucos in the
stomach which helps coat the stomach walls and protect it from the acid) all
it would do is speed up the absorbtion of alcohol into the blood; you have to
figure that it's going to be absorbed anyway but depending upon what you've
eaten along with several other factors, the only possibility I can see it that
all this could happen faster. I think that it goes down smooth and this allows
people to put more of it down, thus getting you drunk quick. This is just my
opinion, perhaps Jeeves would have a different, more accurate answer :)
Bryan
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