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>I guess people just really like the idea of medieval people being shitfaced all the time. Dunno about medieval people being shitfaced, but it probably followe
by imbnwa 3y ago
>I guess people just really like the idea of medieval people being shitfaced all the time.
Dunno about medieval people being shitfaced, but it probably followed from the fact that in early America drinking was absolutely a problem. The Whiskey Tax was heavily backed by religious reformers as a de facto 'sin tax' cause there was so much drinking going on. The Prohibition/Temperance movement was about a hundred years old when it finally won legal prohibition in 1920.
These weren't just neurotic Christian fundamentalists being annoying, average people were drinking around three and a half gallons of alcohol a year, and we're talking whiskey and rum here.[0]
[0]https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-drinking-alcohol/ https://daily.jstor.org/a-brief-history-of-drinking-alcohol/
- rurp 3y agoIs drinking 3.5 gallons of whiskey or rum per year that big of a societal problem? That's only a little more than 1 oz per day. If someone is drinking to the point of disfunction I would expect their consumption to be a great deal more than that.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoFirst, it's amongst all people - so toddlers, kids and non- drinkers too. Second, it's pure alcohol count. Not 3,5 gallons of whisky, but so much whisky that there was 3,5 gallons of pure alcohol in it.
- rpmisms 3y agoThat's absolutely insane. Too bad prohibition created organized crime and gun control in the US.