Zebra Striping

If you alternate alcoholic beverages with glasses of water over the course of an evening, you’re said to be zebra striping. This bit of slang was inspired by how the animal’s alternating black-and-white markings are like the contrast between the dramatically different effects of the two types of drinks. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Zebra Striping”

Here’s a term that’s getting more used these days: zebra striping. This is when you alternate drinking beverages containing alcohol with water. You know, throughout an evening, you drink something that has alcohol and then, to stay healthy, or you drink water.

Oh, interesting. That’s very cool.

For some reason, what came to mind was when my little sister, who’s five years younger than me, was a little bitty. She had what we called her KFC, her Kentucky Fried Chicken Bathing Suit. It had red and white stripes.

And unfortunately, she would get red and white suntans underneath it.

What?

Yeah, because the sunlight would penetrate the white differently than the red. And so she would have these ridiculous suntans. She would look like a chicken bucket.

I just never know where our conversations are going to go, Grant.

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