[Sca-cooks] Binge drinking

[Sue Clemenger]

Nope.  Oregon.  Close enough, though! <weg>
--maire

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wanda Pease" <wandap at hevanet.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Binge drinking


> I'm puzzled.  There seems to be a view that drinking 3 pints of beer (six
> 8oz glasses?) a day is a binge.  Isn't the question what _else_ the person
> was drinking?  Granted people did drink water if they had a good source
> nearby, but if they didn't?  Wouldn't they tend to drink beer instead?
>
> We tend to drink sodas and fruit juices besides the extraordinarily safe
> water from the tap.  What would we drink if those weren't available?
>
> A program I saw while in England recently mentioned that the working poor
> began to suffer vitamin deficiencies when the tee-totalers and tea
drinkers
> discouraged them drinking their normal ration of beer.  I've certainly
seen
> beer referred to as "liquid bread".
>
> Am I out in the fantasy dark ages?
>
> Regina