Mickael Venencie et Yvan Thomas, patron et gérant du restaurant Le Cristal. Thomas Ancona-Léger – Midi Libre
Entre indifférence et scepticisme, les Biterrois restent circonspects vis-à-vis de la pratique du Dry January.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“S’ils l’avaient fait en février, ça aurait été plus simple vu qu’il y a moins de jours”. Sitting at a table in a downtown bar, Jacques sips a pint with his wife and daughter, who are respectively enjoying a kir and a glass of rosé. For this small family from the Somme, there is clearly no question of Dry January this year. Moreover, the retiree is relatively skeptical about this “fashion that comes from England”. “Why do we have to dedicate a month to this? He pretends to wonder. If it turns out, people will only drink even more during the month of February. It's all about moderation”.
Temperance and puritanism
Like Jacques, many people in Béziers at the beginning of January were skeptical about this new practice, which appeared in France six years ago. Like Sylvain, 25, who is reading quietly on the terrace of a café, a hot chocolate in front of him. “In my opinion, Dry January is an Anglo-Saxon concept that relates to a certain idea of temperance and puritanism”, believes this young civil servant. Besides, in his circle of friends, no one practices it. “In France, we have a different relationship with alcohol but it's true that consumption habits are changing, he tempers. We consume less and we pay a little more attention to our health”.
Mickael Venencie, owner of the café-restaurant Le Cristal, has a front row seat to see this change in consumption patterns. According to him, “it is above all because of the media that this phenomenon has grown”. However, he claims to be only a little impacted by the latter. “It is especially good for those who tend to abuse, we need to bring down the euphoria of the holidays”. As for him, he confides that he has no one around him who practices this trend towards sobriety: “we drink little, but we drink well”, he concludes.
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