"Gin is just flavored vodka" -- This I never knew, until about a month ago. Usually when people are keep independently referencing something that I know nothing about, it means I missed an event on the internet. Like I knew about the whole "double rainbows" thing, but when I overheard my co-workers watching it I just figured they were looking at porn, which maybe says a lot about me and my company, because I work at the kind of place where someone might be watching porn, but also the kind of place where I try to avoid watching YouTube videos and instead have a really meta understanding of web culture because I read countless re-posts of the same video, then actually catch up with the video itself on Saturday mornings when I'm already totally irrelevant.

At first, I thought the "gin is vodka" meme was just something my friend was telling me to explain why he was better than me when I was hungover, but I'm beginning to suspect there must have been a New Yorker article or a trend piece in the Times or something. In a world where flavored liquors keep multiplying (see: Cafe Patron) and as someone who consumed bubble gum-flavored vodka for the first time last Tuesday, it seems pretty bizarre to think that 400 years ago someone decided juniper-flavored vodka would be a hit and then it actually was.

May God have mercy on our souls if 20 generations from now our descendants are drinking bubble gum vodka on the regular.