KC (sadly? happily?) not among America’s Drunkest Cities

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‘Tis the season to rank American cities based on a population’s ability to cook, on the percentage of overweight citizens and on the talent for knocking them back. I want to let you down gently, Kansas City. We didn’t make The Daily Beast’s list of the top 25 drunkest cities in America.

One Missouri town did make the top 10, with St. Louis chugging its way to eighth on the list (up from 24th in the 2010 rankings). While tailgaters and the early morning crowd at the Zoo Bar might disagree (as did Men’s Health, naming Kansas City the 36th drunkest city earlier this year), this is a collection of cities that we don’t really want to be keeping company with, based on the stats used to determine which city is the lush uncle of municipalities.