[elky] Re: Car Show today
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:35:29 -0500
Cider was a pretty popular drink with everyone back
then. Course now we'd all like a still so we could fuel our cars. Prob is
it'd cost more to make a gallon of alky than just buying gasoline.
Robert Adams
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ohh. guess I'll never be a brit. Can't speak the language.
>
> No, the water wasn't very good in colonial America. And the taxes on stuff
> from England were high, so the colonists made their own. It is said our
> colonial army had better liquor than the brits ("lobster backs") and were
> able to drink the poor brits under the table, thus making for several
> victories. Funny how we never think twice about names like BrandyWine or
> Kill Devil Hills, but those are slang for the colonists No. 1 product. the
> early history of America seems to have come in a barrel.
>
> Mary
>
>
> Saloon is Brit for sedan. Nothing to do with drinking establishments.
>
> They made their own water???
>
> r
>
> On 9/9/2010 9:38 AM, Mary McCarthy wrote:
>
> did you mean 'salon' or 'saloon'. Slight difference.
>
>
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