[Sca-cooks] Binge drinking
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 24 07:00:00 PST 2005
No, in the Middle Ages beer (or small beer) constituted about one third of
the caloric intake in the beer drinking regions of Europe according to some
of the economic studies. From a little more modern study, in terms of
vitamins and calories, a glass of beer is roughly equivalent to a glass of
milk except for the calcium.
Bear
> 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
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