Originally Posted by
Visconti
Not that it's a thing now, but professionally I came of age during the era of the "Martini lunches" and I can't recall any of us who had even remotely been impaired in the slightest when we returned to the office. Blast from the past, regarding fish, I used to have most of my fish intake at Aqua's.
I recall the martini lunches well and we actually were impaired after some of them. We were guests of our suppliers and I think that may have been the goal...a slightly toasted buyer is more apt to be buying too much! And to facilitate it (drinking at lunch was frowned upon) , the fancy restaurant in the building had waitresses who would bring us really strong drinks in coffee cups so it wasn't obvious that we were drinking. No driving involved as we just had to ride the elevator back up to our floor.