Another pointless thread

It's going to be a 3 month job Bernard, still, I can buy what I want..

...can you survive on beer, gin and whisky?

I believe you can. Especially if it's good British ale.

Worth giving it a go, at any rate.

G

Bavarian monks would survive the winter on a diet mainly consisting of the beer they brewed themselves. Lots of calories for sure....

You should survive a goodly time on beer/ale, but not so sure about the other two, mainly because all the sugars have been turned into C2H5OH and it takes an awful lot of energy to turn them back ito water.

If you were to "water" them down with chips/curry/marsbars then I would say survival is a certainty.

It'll be life Jim but not as we know it.

Bernard

Perhaps that explains why monks are often depicted as being jolly. Normally, you wouldn't think they had much to be jolly about.

But I suppose copious amounts of beer would make their vows of celibacy both easier to bear and harder to break.

Wise chaps, these monks.

G

Yes, it's the beer that's key.

"Watering down" with curry can be taken in different ways.

G

It's strange that with all the concern over alcohol consumption,
the government don't require calories to be shown on beer cans.
Surely just knowing how many calories people were drinking would
result in a reduction in alcohol consumption

In days of old
when knights were bold
and lager was not invented

They drank their stout
without a doubt
and went away contented

As a child I believed the people north of the Roman Wall lived on a diet of porridge, haggis (whatever that was) and whiskey and that was why they made such ferocious soldiers

desufnoc uoy sekam lohocla hcum ooT


Bernard

Would you believe they use a "Bomb Calorimeter" to measure calories. That probably puts the government off that tack

Bernard

The figures are available and Carling have it stamped on their
lager cans.

Bitter seems to be about 320/Litre

link

Whiskey 2070/Litre

Well, actually, your childhood beliefs were not too wide of the mark. For the poor, porridge was the main diet, with a little haggis when somebody killed a pig. Whisky was always moonshine, and therefore cheap.

Dr Johnson scathingly remarked that in England, oats were given to horses, but in Scotland they sustained the population. Johnson was a great man, but little versed in agricultural matters, or he would have known that oats were highly nutritious, which is why English landowners gave oats to their horses, and turnips to their tenants.

Haggis, the great chieftan o' the puddin' race, is of course a wonderfully hearty dish.

So the Scots had it good. In the islands, they feasted nightly on oysters and lobster. Probably.

G

Uoy? "Em" tnaem ouy tcepsus I.

G

dednetni saw "uoy" cireneg a oN

Bernard