Some of the answers above reminfd me of a cartoon on our cellar wall. Translated from the French, it reads, "How wine is served".
first frame,A la Bordelais, showing a gathering of good stout Bordeaux people, with the waiter having a good grip on the bottle as he pours.
second,A la Parisien, a group of effeminate looking chaps and coquettish girls, the waiter is flamboyantly pouce en le punt as he pours.
Third A l'anglaise, A rough looking restaurant, table piled high with bottles, the central character is a woman with "British teeth", pie eyed, and her dress off one shoulder, the bottle raised high in her hand as she prepares to finish it off straight from the neck.
Dated 1903. Binge drinking in Britain appears to be nothing new.