You do know that back in the dark ages the safest thing to drink was
fermented beverages? Otherwise you could get typhoid. black fever and
all kinds of maladies until they figured out how to treat water in
towns. That's what I loved about the Ken Burns prohibition
documentary. Apparently up until prohibition America was a country of
drunken sots. Prohibition wasn't exactly the right way to handle the
problem either. But bureaucrats, with they need to bully, never learn
and hence the harmless weed marijuana was made the next target.
On 04/18/2015 05:41 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/Wonderful article. If, like me, you have an affection for the notion
of the tavern, and some experience frequenting them. The idea that the
beginnings of America took place in dark taverns just rings completely
true for me. OF COURSE America as we know it was dreamed up in bars
and taverns. As the author of this piece says: "It’s not hard to
imagine why a couple of ales could have played a role in nudging along
the idea of dressing like a Native American and dumping some of the
East India Company’s finest tea into Boston Harbor." :-)/*
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Alcohol, bars, and innovation have a storied relationship. Whether
it’s the infamous Pet Rock, which Gary Dahl conceived while drinking
with friends, or the idea...
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