re: #73 Blind Frog Belly White

I’ve read that our ancestors, not knowing about germs but knowing that drinking water would give you the flux and lead to….

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… drank cider or small beer as their primary liquid. Of course, the NEEDED liquid to handle all the salt-preserved and pickled food they ate, because there was no canning or refrigeration. Even small beer with breakfast.

So our ancestors were probably always slightly buzzed.

When given how many people worldwide lived short, often brutal, existences up through the last century or so in most of the world, staying loaded would be just about the only way to tolerate life.