Beer. Responsible for civilization?

Silverbird said:
Business Trip, Russia also around 10 years ago. 3 days. In the morning, could get away with drinking tea. Evenings - Vodka, or a really sweet red wine (as sweet as Port). As an alcohol lightweight I had to drink the wine and not the vodka or I would end up under the table. Brush your teeth at your own risk. Bleh. 3 cavities that year.
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Wow, what an opportunity! Were you where you could see any onion dome architecture? I think those are beautiful buildings!

And onion reminds me - - getting back to the title of the thread - - I read a Nat Geo article some time ago that said excavations going on at the time showed that workers who were building the pyramids had a daily diet of bread, onions and beer. Interesting article.

Maggie
 
alevin said:
2 weeks travelling in China, 10 years ago. the only drinking water I had was a little bottle in the hotelroom every night-for brushing teeth-not near enough to suit an American. Lunch and dinners all pre-arranged. No water. Coke, 7up, beer. I drank 7up til I got sick of the sugar, switched to beer at meals the rest of the trip.
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Business Trip, Russia also around 10 years ago. 3 days. In the morning, could get away with drinking tea. Evenings - Vodka, or a really sweet red wine (as sweet as Port). As an alcohol lightweight I had to drink the wine and not the vodka or I would end up under the table. Brush your teeth at your own risk. Bleh. 3 cavities that year.
 
 
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Silverbird said:
And people wonder why Prohibition didn't work.
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Actually, it did work. There was less drinking.

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ahhh, beer. makes anything on the menu taste better, but be careful.

just don't order the cweem of sum yung gai.
 
Much! :laugh: including seeing the Fa Lun Gong protester getting arrested in Tiannenmen Square 40 feet from our group! :blink:
 
2 weeks travelling in China, 10 years ago. the only drinking water I had was a little bottle in the hotelroom every night-for brushing teeth-not near enough to suit an American. Lunch and dinners all pre-arranged. No water. Coke, 7up, beer. I drank 7up til I got sick of the sugar, switched to beer at meals the rest of the trip.
 
And people wonder why Prohibition didn't work. Back in the day before drinking water purification, drinking water out of a nearby source was a baaadddd idea :sick: (unless the weather was cold enough for tea). In many parts of Europe, all the common folk drank beer. Yes, that's everyone, including little kids. To this day, if you ask for a drink of water in some restaurants in Europe, you will either get a bottle of mineral water or a really strange look.
 
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