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narag on Feb 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Were Early Modern People Perpetually Drunk? (2016)

I've read somewhere that beer was used instead of water in areas where water wasn't safe. IIRC, beer has non-alcoholic calories also. I don't believe one can live on spirits, but it could make you forget you are hungry :)

Edit: I should have read TFA before commenting.

r00fus on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

Old saying that my wife's French grandpa liked to say - "I don't drink water, it makes me rust".

pouetpouet on Feb 1, 2017 | [–]

Heard it as "Water make iron stomachs rust". Usually everyday beer as a replacement of water was smallbeer/bière de table with 2-3% alcohol.

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