[Sca-cooks] Wassail was How old are drinking straws?

[Stefan li Rous]

Daniel Raoul replied to me with:
> >> My copy of "Wassail! In Mazers of Mead" G.R. Gayre Phillimore & Sons.
> Ltd.
> >> London 1948, page 31 figures 2 & 3 shows line drawings of "Beer drinking
> >> through tubes in ancient Babylonia" and "Bottling Beer by syphon in
> Ancient
> >> Egypt."  Unforunately it does not give a reference to their sources.

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> If you check the archives I quoted extensively from it in our discussion of
> mazer cups a little while back.

Thanks. I think I saved a goodly part of that mazer discussion. I will
add this to the mazer-msg file and the mead-msg file so folks have
another referance to use.

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