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To: NYer

Wine and beer effectively kill off bacteria and have always been common as everyday drink.

In the colonies people, including children, drank apple cider with about 5% alcohol content. This was the rule until the Germans came in with their lagers which were much better and they became the drink of choice.

Which gives a new meaning to Johnny Appleseed’s quest to plant more apple trees.


21 posted on 07/17/2014 6:49:53 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: buffaloguy
Which gives a new meaning to Johnny Appleseed’s quest to plant more apple trees.

I wonder if that story is taught to today's children as part of American history? John Chapman was an itinerant preacher who traveled about holding services, and carrying a bag of dried apple cores with which to plant apple trees wherever he went. There was a Disney movie about him back in the '50s that will NEVER be shown on TV today, probably because of this song:

The Lord is good to me
And so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need,
The sun, the rain and the apple seed,
The Lord is good to me.

31 posted on 07/17/2014 7:08:15 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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