| Sudalai Madan, who devours non-vegetarian food after consuming litres of arrack or toddy has to content himself with the sweet prepared by them. |
| Domestic products such as coconut toddy and herbal arrack of good quality should be produced on a large scale and sold under Government licence. |
| Liquor barons have always been in support of a ban on toddy and arrack, so that tipplers would turn to Indian made foreign liquor. |
| Drinking of arrack or country liquor has been such a problem that pressure from women in recent years has led to its prohibition. |
| Paunch was a chilled blend of arrack, a distilled palm sap, with sugar, citrus, water and spices. |
| The 1990s saw illiterate poor women in the village of Dubagunta, Andhra Pradesh, launch a grass roots movement against the sale of arrack. |
