19th century drinking, yikes

[giantsloth]

Evander Berry Wall, "King of the Dudes," on the daily drinking schedule and the relative capacities of U.S. drinkers versus English drinkers, late nineteenth century:

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[terribleturnip]

Oof. And here I was, all self-congratulatory that we'd put away several cocktails apiece and a bottle of wine per person on Thanksgiving -- hey, we still know how to tie one on! Obviously, we're letting down our nation.

[giantsloth]

I made a bowl (a stockpot, actually) of Philadelphia Fish House Punch for Friendsgiving. I think, adjusting for the 21st century, we're doing OK by these United States. E pluribus unum.

[metricula]

The idea of moralists bewailing things always brings me a quiet kind of cheer.

[giantsloth]

I raise my glass of frozen kimmel to you! You know, you'd never catch an ethicist bewailing anything. Ethicists are much too cool for that.