re: #666 iceweasel

You’re a font of interesting knowledge!

Start brewing potcheen and I’ll buy a lot. Promise.

See, now that isn’t white lightning. Halfway decent poteen is still yards ahead of most corn squeezin’s. Like so much of that culture, transplanting it to the Appalachians caused certain distortions, enhancements, and adaptations to local conditions.

So, Irish bootleg whiskey is miles ahead of the hillbilly version, even as hillbilly fiddlin’ is years ahead of the Irish.