[elky] Re: Car Show today
- From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:55:04 -0500
And for a long time apples were not edible either.
Really tough to find an edible apple tree and if you plant seeds from it you
end up with a random apple again. Interesting how they grow.
Robert Adams
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yes, apples were not native to the colonies. They were planted to provide
> apple jack.
>
> 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.
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> Robert Adams
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> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> 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
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