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[Jenne Heise]

> 1. What people want is in part a function of what they have been 
> exposed to. In areas where we routinely brought sekanjabin to fighter 
> practices, we didn't observe people responding with "ick, period 
> drink."

Nope, lots of people flock to the cold mint sekanjibin. But they also
drink Gatorade. At a war, however, there's a special consideration AGAINST
sekanjibin that I just thought of: that is lack of facilities to clean
your water containers thoroughly. Sekanjibin, being a sugar-vinegar syrup,
leaves a little sugar in the container that you have to be sure to clean
out or you get new civilizations in the water cooler (I speak from
experience). We've tried the alternative-- providing water and a bottle of
sekanjabin syrup but I think we needed to have one of those syrup pourers
like they use in coffee bars-- the result was a little messy. If you are
putting sekanjabin into disposable gallon jugs you will throw out right
after the battle, though, it would work, and a lot of the guys would thank
you for it.

By the way, I'm a little confused about the documentation for the mint
flavored sekanjabin syrup in cold water... I thought it was documented
only for _hot water_ and the cold version was 'creative anachronism'. (I
keep introducing herbalists to this drink, but I squirm a little bit
because I'm confused about it.)

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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