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Diluting an alcoholic beverage (or some other drug), usually with water for alcohol, but sometimes other substances, is fairly common in both the real world and fiction. Street drugs are also almost always cut with other stuff. It is usually done so as to get more saleable product from smaller amounts of genuine ingredients. For example, lactose powder or flour may be added to cocaine to bulk it out. Yet sometimes, dilutants are added for other purposes. Some dilutants might mask an unpleasant flavor. Adding products to make a drink or drug seem stronger is not this trope. For example, an unethical Hillbilly Moonshiner might add poisonous wood alcohol to their illicit hooch to give it more "kick", or drug dealers might add PCP to cannabis to enhance the perceived psychedelic effectiveness. This can overlap with Expensive Glass of Crap when the watering down consists of mixing small amounts of fancy aged booze with larger quantities of mediocre or crappy "plonk". May result in A Tankard of Moose Urine. |
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In Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea, there's an audio diary of Atlas complaining about how cost ineffective Vigors are because of how it's sold in diluted, drinkable form and vouches for just selling them in concentrated form to be injected into your bloodstream with needles. The marketing team can figure out how to make them sell. | |
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The profitability of this trope actually led to Italian organized crime families getting into the business of stealing premium quality olive oil and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese that was then cut with cheap fillers and labeled as being pure, then sold around the world. The legitimate business of the Corleone family in The Godfather being olive oil importers is a reference to this. | |
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An episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia involves this when the gang comes into possession of a large amount of cocaine owned by the mob. Over the course of the episode, a lot of the cocaine ends up depleted, which leads them to try to dilute it with flour. Naturally, they dump so much flour on the cocaine that it's more flour than cocaine. | |
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The The Pogues track "Sally MacLenanne brings this up as part of a barman's job. | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Crepes of Wrath" Bart is sent as a foreign exchange student to France, only to find out that he's basically been sold as a slave to shoddy wine makers. Unable to speak the language, he toils for weeks as the men abuse him. One day, immersion kicks in and he realizes he's fluent. He immediately runs to a cop and tells him how the men beat and starve him and cut the wine with antifreeze. The officer listens stoically until he gets to the part about the wine. To which he's horrified and rushes off to arrest the men. At a school event in "I Love Lisa", Principal Skinner instructs Willie to water down the remaining orange drink, who claims watering it down any more isn't even possible. When the citizens of Springfield start dumping their booze into the water supply of an army troop occupying the town Moe claims this is definitely the only time his booze has been watered down. |
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On Graceland the agents are able to intercept a large heroin shipment that was supposed to sustain Bello's drug operations for months. With his inventory running out, Bello decides that he has to dilute the heroin so he does not run out before a replacement shipment can arrive. Since he does not want to gain a reputation for watering down his product, he uses a substitute that most junkies would not detect but which can kill people if mixed with alcohol or other drugs. In Bello's arithmetic, a few dead customers is better than having a reputation for selling inferior heroin. | |
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Examples from Discworld: A certain class of upper-class snobs like to label their alcohol backwards (so that whiskey is read as "yeksihw" and port as "trop") to prevent their servants from stealing sips from the bottles. In response, the butlers top the bottles up with "eniru" after they've had their fill. Scrape is a troll drug that's even worse than Slab, as it involves any junk lying around and requires pigeon droppings. And Discworld pigeons are described as "effluents on wings"... But a suggestion that a landlord has been watering down the scumble is quickly discarded, because everyone knows "what happens if you lets a drop of water touch scumble". Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook to the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway has a story about a bartender who was given new hands by the local Igor, and discovered that they were rather more refined than he was, fluttering in alarm when he swore and insisting on being washed when he left the privy. Then some of the customers noticed that he also washed them when he took a barrel up from the cellar... Mr. Tulip's drug problem is that he wants a drug problem, but can't get his hands on actual drugs to save his life. Despite Ankh-Morpork being a Wretched Hive par excellence where any euphoric substance under the sun can be purchased, he'll somehow inevitably find the dealer who's selling powdered moth balls and baking soda. Although Mr. Pin tries to set him straight, Tulip still insists these substances must be working as intended, as they are "chemical". |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars has this as a key plot point in the episode Corruption, in which smugglers (The usual merchant ships having cut shipments due to the titular Clone Wars making travel unsafe) cut the tea they smuggled into Mandalore with a toxic chemical, which leads to scores of hospitalized children. | |
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The book M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action features Mob enforcer Guido discussing this phenomena, noting it's a way for the bar owner to make more money off less product, and his customers don't mind because less alcohol per glass makes the drink "healthier". | |
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The Sarantine Mosaic, being Historical Fantasy based on Byzantine (eastern Roman Empire) events, has most people watering their wine regularly in Sarantine society. Taking one's wine undiluted is considered a sign of a dissolute drunkard - reasonable, given how much wine everyone seems to drink throughout the day. | |
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Watered-down wine is used as a metaphor in the Book of Isaiah as God's way of telling His people Israel that their spiritual life isn't as pure or as potent as it used to be. | |
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Inverted in Trainspotting. Renton's usually compensates for the fact that Seeker usually cuts any heroin he sells by upping his dosage per hit. He overdoses when the gear he gets is actually pure (or less cut at least). | |
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In the Gospel of John, when Jesus performed his first miracle (turning water into wine at the Wedding at Cana), he turned it into the very best wine. One of the guests passes comment about it to the host, since the usual practice was to water it down and use cheaper wine overall. | |
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In BioShock, minor character Pierre Gobbi has an audio diary complaining about the hellhole Rapture is turning out to be; but there is one thing he cannot stand: Worley Winery, producers of the fine wine Arcadia Merlot, watering down their wine. They then claim that at least they are using distilled water, and not seawater. This points the player to the winery, as distilled water is one of the items for the current Fetch Quest. In Bioshock Infinite Burial at Sea, there's an audio diary of Atlas complaining about how cost ineffective Vigors are because of how it's sold in diluted, drinkable form and vouches for just selling them in concentrated form to be injected into your bloodstream with needles. The marketing team can figure out how to make them sell. |
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The Beverly Hillbillies' Granny, a Hillbilly Moonshiner, usually makes strong liquor, but waters it down for the city folks who couldn't handle it at full strength. | |
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In some versions of the Batman franchise, The Penguin has shifted from outright crime to running a nightclub, where he makes far more money selling overpriced souvenirs and, yes, watered-down drinks. | |
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Silver Spoon: When Yugo asks one of the staff of Ooezo about a way to make money, he replies that an easy way for a dairy farmer to increase profits is by watering down their milk, which gets mixed in with others from nearby farms, so no one will notice at the store. He then goes on to explain how they're checked for this by weight and freezing point, which you can bypass by either adding too little for them to detect or figuring out which days they measure. | |
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In Lackadaisy their supplier at the beginning of the comic has a not undeserved reputation for cutting his booze with embalming fluid. The fact that they're even buying from him serves to show how badly the Lackadaisy speakeasy is doing. | |
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On NCIS, Palmer's upcoming wedding is set to take place during an investigation of a domestic terrorist, so Gibbs gets the idea to use Palmer's Stag Party as part of a sting. All the drinks at the parry are watered down to keep the agents sober; Palmer, however, Can't Hold His Liquor and ends up plastered. | |
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Rosie does this on M*A*S*H to keep the prices down. | |
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The Sting: When Henry Gondorff is performing the initial con against Lonnegan on the train, he makes himself up as a drunken slob by taking a bottle of gin, splashing some of it on his face and gargling with it so he reeks of alcohol, then pouring half of it out and filling the bottle back up with water before taking it with him to the poker game. He advises Hooker that gin is the best thing to drink while working a con because the mark can't tell that you've watered it down. | |
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In Preacher, Custer starts off his massive "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the whole town by telling the bartender he can almost taste the beer through all the water. | |
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The Bible: Watered-down wine is used as a metaphor in the Book of Isaiah as God's way of telling His people Israel that their spiritual life isn't as pure or as potent as it used to be. Used by the writer of 2nd Maccabees at the end to compare with writing a good story. In the Gospel of John, when Jesus performed his first miracle (turning water into wine at the Wedding at Cana), he turned it into the very best wine. One of the guests passes comment about it to the host, since the usual practice was to water it down and use cheaper wine overall. |
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In the extended version of Steven King's The Stand, one of the survivors of Captain Tripps is a heroin user who knew where his dealer kept the stash. Unfortunately for him, the dealer died before he could cut it, so the druggie snorted almost pure heroin and promptly died of an overdose. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: One of the less heinous things Ingo does when he takes over Lon Lon Ranch is water down their milk products. | |
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Due to its heavy focus on drug gangs, The Wire features the drug version of this trope in spades. (Eg. numbers are thrown around between the gangs to talk about the strength of their product; 'Take it to ten' or 'This stuff is ninety', referring to what percentage of the product is actually the drug), and in hard times, they weaken their product by cutting it with whatever similar-looking substance comes to hand to make more profit. In season two, there are five deaths and eight hospitalizations in the Correctional Facility because the supply of heroin has been cut with rat poison. In this case it was for the sake of assassination, but the police couldn't be sure because that kind of thing can just as well be done as a way to cut cost and increase perceived potency. | |
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Palladium Fantasy has several lower class establishments such as peasant taverns and inns that are explicitly mentioned to water down their booze. Getting a bottle of the good stuff usually means dropping a bit of gold at a higher end location or settling for cheap but borderline toxic rotgut moonshine. Pick your poison... | |
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Apparently, according to the Talmud, in ancient Israel and Babylonia, wine was made so strong that it was actually undrinkable unless mixed with water in a ratio of about 2 parts water to 1 part wine. In much of the ancient Mediterranean wine was fermented to a very high alcohol level and then watered down later, either soon before sale or by the customer. It was considered very unhealthy to regularly imbibe un-watered-down wine. For a good reason- alcohol and sweetness of unwatered vine perfectly covered bitter taste of poison. |
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Tigana: the fashion is to drink kav laced with liqueurs. At the beginning of the novel, as word spreads that one of the city's patriarchs has died, people are flooding into bars to gossip about it. In the inn where the artists and musicians drink, the bartender gets so excited by the crowds and the news that he actually starts pouring full measures of booze until his wife notices and makes him stop. | |
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Mentioned by Vlad in Grand Theft Auto IV. He says that Mikhail cuts his cocaine with laxative, causing Niko to be Squicked out when he mentions the effect it has on him. | |
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Ocean's 8: In her first scene Lou is supervising as her nightclub's employees water down vodka, giving them strict instructions on how to make it seem convincing ("three fingers from the top"). | |
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Lana Lee, the business-minded owner of the Night of Joy bar in A Confederacy of Dunces also waters down the drinks of her "hostess" Darlene...but she also waters down all the other drinks as a cost-cutting measure. Burma Jones frequently comments on it—particularly how it might be cutting into her profits, as people won't come back to a bar where they get too-weak drinks. | |
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In American Psycho, a couple of the yuppies complain about how the cocaine they've been sold is "a gram of fucking Nutrasweet". | |
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Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad originally spiked his meth with chili powder, not so much to dilute as because he considered it his signature flair. When he joined up with Walter White he put a stop to that, because Walt takes great pride in the fact that he can produce meth that is more than 99% pure. The high quality of Walt's meth is what brings him to Gus's attention. | |
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The Hobbit: When the dwarves are captured by the Elves, the guards sit down for some drinking. As the narration notes, they start drinking wine that's meant to be drunk in small glasses and cut with water, the guards down the stuff undiluted in huge bowls. Very soon they're dead drunk, alowing Bilbo to let the dwarves out. | |
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