Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On 2024-11-10, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 10/11/2024 01:59, Niklas Karlsson wrote:

On 2024-11-08, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
I think mediaeval monks ate pretty well, certainly better than the
peasants. Ascetics they weren’t.

 
And there was the beer...
 
Niklas

>
Well yes, so weak that people could drink a gallon of it without
becoming drunk.
Bit like American beer.
[hard] Cider was the real McCoy. And mead. And wine.

That's what I hear about beer among the great unwashed, certainly, but I
was under the impression that monastery beer was quite a different
matter. I could be mistaken, of course.

Niklas
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