To: frank ballenger
colonists learned that much of the water was contaminated and unsafe to drink so they substituted beer and wine...
Sounds like urban legend to hide the fact that they were drunks. Boiling water for two minutes (yes 120 seconds) and allowing it to cool kills all waterborne pathogens. Backpackers know this.
80 posted on
01/21/2023 4:51:05 PM PST by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
I do not believe it was urban legend...think how surgeries were done...and bleeding people for health...in the 1700s_1800s
86 posted on
01/21/2023 4:58:39 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders wh to sile ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
To: SpaceBar
People didn’t realize that then.
I have never gotten the impression Founders were drunks. As a huge fan of the era, I would say that’s a pretty strong impression.
I do however feel we have an alcoholic society, obsessed with drink now.
100 posted on
01/21/2023 6:05:05 PM PST by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DM)
To: SpaceBar
“Boiling water for two minutes (yes 120 seconds) and allowing it to cool kills all waterborne pathogens.”
It is not the cooling that kills the pathogens, it is the heat.
106 posted on
01/21/2023 6:33:06 PM PST by
steve86
(Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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