[Sca-cooks] Home Made Gatorade (OOP)

[chirhart_1]

I agree! Pardon the intrusion.We drank coke while de tassleing corn and
never felt bad..This of course was in the time if( real) coke persay..
Chirhart
----- Original Message -----
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Home Made Gatorade (OOP)


> > Of _course_ you worked harder on Coke; there's all that wonderful
caffeine
> > guaranteed to wake kids up and put them into overdrive. And lots of nice
> > sugar, too. <grin>
>
> Er. No. (um, Alban, try to remember back when Kool-aid had sugar in it
> too.) I don't know of any studies that show that caffeine increases
> endurance. The biggest trouble is that too much kool-aid makes you feel
> bilious; the coca-cola formula is acidic enough that you can drink a
> bottle and get the liquid into you, plus cutting the gunk in your throat
> from the haying.
>
> > Sekunjabin. Don't forget sekunjabin. Diluted mint-flavored vinegar
> > with a bit of sugar goes down wonderfully well, is acidic enough to be
> > kind to the stomach, and quenches the thirst better than damn near
> > anything else I've tried over the years.
>
> Yes, it does. At one point, my mom and I tried switchel (from the Little
> House Cookbook)  and found that it worked about as well for us as Coke.
> But I was only ten; the my father, his partner, and the farmhands were
> less likely to try a drink with vinegar in it.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
> "Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."
>
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