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Title: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: rangerrebew on July 08, 2018, 03:58:23 pm: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
They may not have been hosting a cookout, but they did know how to imbibe and celebrate

By Amanda Cargill

As we commence celebrating July 4th with the time-honored traditions of beer, block parties and cookouts, itâ€™s fun to imagine a cookout where the Founding Fathers gathered around a grill discussing the details of the Declaration of Independence. Did George Washington prefer dogs or burgers? Was Benjamin Franklin a ketchup or mustard guy? And why did they all avoid drinking water?

The Founding Fathers did not â€œgather around a grill,â€ as many Americans now do on Independence Day. They did, though, enjoy many foods and drinks still beloved today, as well as a few that might be declined if passed around at cocktail hour.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-july-4th-result-both-american-revolution-and-food-revolution-180969538/#xzrLuwPO8J3bHrJe.99 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-july-4th-result-both-american-revolution-and-food-revolution-180969538/#xzrLuwPO8J3bHrJe.99)
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: truth_seeker on July 08, 2018, 04:21:11 pm: While most were English subjects residing in a colony, I assume their food choices ran mostly to English cuisine.

English cuisine is rarely ranked near the top of lists.

English buffet style breakfast superb. Shepard's pie, very good.

The rest sucked.
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: GtHawk on July 08, 2018, 07:30:57 pm: I'm gonna go with 'what are beef, pork, beer and rye' for 500 Alex
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: skeeter on July 08, 2018, 07:34:04 pm: I heard they drank this stuff by the boatload

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Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: 240B on July 08, 2018, 07:56:28 pm: And why did they all avoid drinking water?

Europeans and Americans would only drink water that was cooked in some way. There was no basic sanitation in those times for people or livestock, and certainly no water purification plants. So the water was likely to be potentially contaminated with any number of a thousand different kinds of diseases.

I read something a while ago which said that Vikings drank mostly beer. Germany, of course, is known for beer. And France is known for drinking wine all the time all day long. These customs originated because these fermented drinks were safer than drinking the water. Also, according to what I have read, the alcohol content was much lower back then than it is today. And that makes perfect sense. If you are drinking something to quench a thirst, you would want it to have a low alcohol content.

In summary, wine/beer/coffee was like water to those people. In fact the word Whiskey means 'the water of life'. And vodka in Slavic means 'little water'. But again, the alcohol content then was not like it is today. It was meant for drinking like we drink a soda pop today.
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: Gefn on July 08, 2018, 08:09:24 pm: Quote from: GtHawk on July 08, 2018, 07:30:57 pm
I'm gonna go with 'what are beef, pork, beer and rye' for 500 Alex

Iâ€™m going to go with food,
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: berdie on July 08, 2018, 11:56:39 pm: Quote from: truth_seeker on July 08, 2018, 04:21:11 pm
While most were English subjects residing in a colony, I assume their food choices ran mostly to English cuisine.

English cuisine is rarely ranked near the top of lists.

English buffet style breakfast superb. Shepard's pie, very good.

The rest sucked.

Fish and Chips are yummy. :laugh:

But I agree...English food just doesn't flick my bick.
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: Frank Cannon on July 09, 2018, 12:01:39 am: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?

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Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:06:06 am: (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/97/5a/e2975afc8f829aa1ab421a9a7aac2d3e.jpg)
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:06:39 am: Quote from: Frank Cannon on July 09, 2018, 12:01:39 am
What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?

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From the Jewish deli up the road?
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: Frank Cannon on July 09, 2018, 12:14:10 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:06:39 am
From the Jewish deli up the road?

Of course. It's the only reason they invented Manhattan.
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: berdie on July 09, 2018, 12:38:35 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:06:06 am
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e2/97/5a/e2975afc8f829aa1ab421a9a7aac2d3e.jpg)

I love me some SOS. I had no idea it as a British dish?
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:43:48 am: Quote from: berdie on July 09, 2018, 12:38:35 am

I love me some SOS. I had no idea it as a British dish?

Chipped beef? Only the British would eat that shit.
Title: Re: What Did the Founding Fathers Eat and Drink as They Started a Revolution?
Post by: Joe Wooten on July 09, 2018, 01:38:37 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on July 09, 2018, 12:06:06 am
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Good O' SOS.....