It's smack in the gruit tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit
Don't fall for the capitalists' revisionist narrative around 'commercialization'. Indigenous brewers have been making good beer out of all sorts of plants for millennia. And don't fall for the Temperance teatotaller garbage either. Alcohol is only a minor player in the real story. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, 10:36 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given rootbear floats is one of the GOAT hot weather drinks: > How is it that we sat down one day and said: you know this ginger, spices, > sarsaparilla? what happens when its carbonated, then mixed with very cold > crtystalized dihydrogen monoxide, and decided it was yummy? > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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