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As I'm on a fic where I'm having Yang order one of these things (and she won't be getting one because this is the kind of establishment where they think they're classy because they have beer and red and white wine), let's run the numbers. The first recipe I found is:

2 ounces creme de fraises, which is basically an alcoholic base with strawberry flavourings, rated at about 30% ABV.

4 ounces orange juice. No alcohol, obviously.

1/2 ounce grenadine (which is lemonade syrup, 0% ABV, pour in last and watch it sink to the bottom, creating the pretty "sunrise" effect)

So what's an ounce when it's at home? Right, about 30ml. Syndicat International d'unites mthfkr! Do you speak it? So the full drink is 6.5 ounces, which is 195ml. A big wine glass. The amount of alcohol is 30% x 60 ml = 18 ml of pure ethanol. This comes down to (18ml / 195ml) 9% ABV in total. This puts it between beer (~5%) and wine (~12%).

So how drunk is Yang going to get on one of these? Well, she gets 18ml of C2H5OH. A pint of Vacuo love-in-a-canoe beer would contain (5% of 568ml) 28ml. A glass of House Red would get her (12% x 175ml) 21ml.

We have here in Formerly Great Britain the Alcoholic Unit. One "unit" is 10ml of alcohol. Men and these days women alike are advised not to exceed 14 units per week, spread over three days, giving 4.666... let's say five units for one jolly evening. At about two units per sticky sweet drink, after three our Little Sunny Dragon would be well in her cups. If she goes on a binge to forget it all, after about nine of the things they'd have to carry her away.

I hope this interesting information will prove useful to you in some bizarre way.