tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post7098980283398295081..comments2024-03-18T16:12:07.747-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: Alcohol and group formation. Deric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-22408148040824890722012-09-09T09:39:50.521-05:002012-09-09T09:39:50.521-05:00Why did people in the past drink alcohol, aside fr...Why did people in the past drink alcohol, aside from the obvious reasons:<br /><br />The alcohol probably made beers and wine safer to drink than (the dirty) water in antiquity and people don't like to be sick.<br /><br />In the U.S. in colonial times, people made (hard) apple cider because it could be sold, because it traveled to market much better than apples, and because a lot of the apples that they grew were rubbish.<br /><br />When I lived in Chile many years ago, I could and did by (very bad) wine for nine cents a liter. It was the cheapest source of calories, and there were a lot of hungry people.<br />John Dalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363204598363726098noreply@blogger.com