Scientific Fact and a bit of history!
What?
Poop in my water?
Can I say poop?
This isn’t new – with the breakdown of our water systems, and the substandard politicians, this is all normal.
But with that said, the people of Rome, Egypt and England knew that Beer, Wine and Spirits were the best thing to drink. It is amazing that these three small countries flourished into empires and kingdoms at the same time having a rather stewed population and governing body.
Even during the founding of our country, mead, rum (mostly rum with 3 gallons consumed by every man women and child during that time) and other forms of spirits led us down a path to becoming a country and allowing us to create on our own unique spirits and beers like Jack, Beam, Old Crow, Old Granddad, Bud and Miller, which the last two has led us into the golden age of chemically enhanced beer from the Uber-Breweries, leading the way for a more subtle flavor enhance bottle o’ cr*p beer – isn’t capitalism wonderful.
I’ll have a mimbo barwench!
But I digress....
A few countries also were successful to a point but never on the scale of the three mentioned above, they drank water.
The Swiss had mountain water to drink which it had in it microbes, frozen creatures and dinosaur poop in it from a prehistoric age. They became paranoid and built a lot of tunnels to live underground so when the aliens came from mars or the French invaded they had a place for their cheese.
The Danes after their conquests from Minnesota to modern Hungary to the founding of Rusland to the invasion of Baghdad (maybe we should have followed their lead), they didn’t have any more fresh pure water to take from the people they conquered because they got tire of conquering and ended up drinking fish water which was used to pickle all that herring that they eat. Oh by the way, they left Minnesota after only 30 years of ruling it because they could not understand the people, the accent and speech patterns drove the Norseman up the wall and they just couldn’t take it anymore.
But the French, long before they stole the recipe how to make wine in the 16th century from a small group of people in the Naples region of Italy (they were like the Priory of Sion in the de Vinci code, they are still trying to protect the recipe for pizza Napoletana from the French who want to claim it as their own like they did wine, I think they are called the Priory of Gennaro Lombardi). Anyway they were drinking water out of the aqueducts that the Romans built to bring water into Paris but because the French could not figure out the Roman instruction manual, they just made it up as they went along and used the same system to dump the waste from the toilets at the various palaces around Paris at the very same time using them to carry water to the people of Paris – yuk. By the way, it only took the French 50 years after in they discovered that Poland had something call indoor plumbing to install a drainage system in Paris - it opened last year.
It goes to show you that the Beer, Wine and spirits actually are a good thing for a country if used in moderation.
But I got to point out that if you think your tap water is bad, eating at a truck stop gives you all kinds of things that you don't have to pay for.
"Umm.. I will have campylobacter jejuni with my salad and streptococcus pyogenes with my main course, but ...I am undecided whether... I should have the salmonella enterica or the shigella dysenteriae with my dessert."
Yum, truck stop bacteria - the best.
Oh by the way, I buy distilled water for a reason, can you figure out why?
