[geeks] This bogles my mind

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Speaking of beer, there was a note in the latest Newsweek about how a
couple of schools in Belgium were convinced that serving beer to first
graders was healthier for them than soda, so they serve beer (supposedly
reletively low alcohol) to first graders.

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Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 ward at zilla.nu wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:26:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> > Of course, given a choice between medieval-quality water and medieval-
> > quality beer, I'd take the beer any day.  Beer won't ferment properly
> > in the presence of a large number of common bugs, so is a good sign of
> > a reasonably clean drink ;-)
> 
> I never really thought of it, but is that a reason why beer was so
> common back then?  Or was it just that they had good taste?
> 
> Reagen
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