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[tjlee]

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Beer for breakfast

[german_dwarf]

Historically, a lot of people in this country have had a drink in the morning. Good people, too--like the Puritans, who usually had beer with the breakfast. John Adams used to drink hard cider for breakfast (http://ms.essortment.com/hardapplecider_rxvs.htm).

I guess we're just living in different times. Business people don't even drink on their lunch hours anymore. We can probably blame it on Ben Franklin who, being very logical, noted that he got a lot more work done when he drank water rather than beer, which was the usual beverage for manual laborers at the time.

In my family it is OK to drink beer after 11:30 AM, because that's a respectable early lunch hour, but no one drinks in the morning except after funeral services.

[hozomeen]

I think beer might have been drunk at least partially as another foodstuff. Certainly that's one of the original reasons beer was created, it was pretty nutritious. And what about all those old "Guiness for Strength" ads they used to have in Britain? They'd even give women who'd given birth Guiness to restore their energy.

Make mine a Guiness

[german_dwarf]

It's true about the stout prescription. I have an Aunt in Scotland who was prescribed one pint a day when she was feeling low-energy.

It is food. It always is the perfect appetizer. Did I say appetizer? I meant meal-replacement shake.