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It seems that not only does eating on an empty stomach make you get drunk faster, it also increases your overall BAC.

"According to several studies and experts on alcohol, a lot. In 1994, one team of Swedish researchers set out to answer the question by having a group of 10 people consume a few drinks on two separate days.

In one case they drank after an overnight fast, and in the other, they drank after they ate a modest breakfast.

On the day the subjects ate, the rate of intoxication was slower, even though the amount of alcohol had not changed. But the subjects also reached significantly lower blood-alcohol levels over all -- on average about 70 percent of what they were on the day they skipped breakfast.

In some cases, the study found, having a meal before drinking kept a person from climbing over the legal blood-alcohol limit for driving in most states."

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/health/the-claim-never-drink-on-an-empty-stomach.html

If the above is true, it would seem that any food comsumption before/during a drinking session would mean less intoxication.